Senior WordPress Developer

Reports To: Head of Digital

Company: Internet Matters

Location: Blackfriars, London 3 days week & WFH 2 days

Role type: Full-time, permanent, £50,000 - 60,000 per annum

Internet Matters is a not-for-profit organisation that helps parents, carers and professionals keep children and young people safe online.

We have not yet reached our 10th birthday but are one of the leading online safety organisations in the UK working with major global brands like Meta, Google, and TikTok and our founding partners BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media O2.

We’re here to offer the best advice and information available to help parents, carers and professionals engage in the online lives of children and young people, empowering them to manage the risks they may face online.

Overview of Role

We are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and highly skilled Senior WordPress Developer to lead the ongoing development and maintenance of our digital products. The successful candidate will be responsible for all technical aspects of our digital presence, including new development, site maintenance, code quality, infrastructure configuration, and security. You will take the lead role in optimising site performance, technical SEO, and maintaining brand consistency.

As a Senior WordPress Developer, you will be a WordPress expert, fluent in current and emerging best practices related to developing and maintaining large-scale WordPress sites. You will be comfortable establishing and maintaining development and deployment best practices and mentoring our junior developer in their personal development.

Responsibilities:

Website Development and Oversight:

Lead the development and maintenance of finely-crafted custom WordPress website implementations for all in-house projects, demanding and delivering high quality, compliant, clean and commented code, optimised for performance.

Site Builds and Optimisation:

Oversee the development of new digital products and optimise existing ones to meet business objectives and user needs.

Problem-Solving and Debugging:

Actively troubleshoot and resolve website issues, serving as a go-to expert for technical challenges.

API Integration and Deployment:

Integrate and work with third-party APIs as required to support our digital products. Establish and maintain good deployment practice and workflow. Be familiar with branch/trunk-based development practice.

Website Accessibility Implementation:

Lead efforts to ensure our digital platforms are accessible to all users, adhering to agreed WCAG standards and best practices.

Project Planning and Responsibilities:

Contribute to project planning and scoping activities for website and CRM initiatives, taking responsibility for delivery of all technical development aspects of relevant projects, ensuring clear objectives, time lines, and resource allocation.

Quality Assurance

Implement and uphold a rigorous QA process for all development activities. This includes thorough testing, meticulous code reviews, and ensuring the completeness of delivery against requirements. Also, identifying and addressing any issues or opportunities for improvement.

Optimisation:

Continually monitor and optimise key performance metrics across our digital properties to enhance user experience and support business objectives.

SEO Technical Strategy:

In collaboration with SEO Lead, develop and execute technical SEO strategies to improve search engine visibility, rankings, and organic traffic.

Digital and Website Security:

Maintain digital and web operations security through proactive management, encompassing measures such as secure credential storage and maintenance, timely application of security patches, code vulnerability scanning, and personal information safeguarding.

Communication and Stakeholder Management:

Effectively communicate with internal stakeholders to understand requirements and priorities and allocate tasks to the web development team accordingly.

Reporting:

Contribute to monthly reports on on-site health performance and updates to internal stakeholders, highlighting key metrics and insights.

Tools & Reporting Platforms:

Be familiar with and use the usual suite of analytics and reporting platforms, including Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, YouTube Analytics, Google Console (Core Vitals), Facebook and Twitter Analytics, Hotjar, Dot Digital, and Supermetrics.

Documentation:

Maintain concise and accessible technical documentation, covering technical architecture, integration configuration, processes and code for knowledge sharing within the team and with external partners.

Skills, knowledge and experience:

Qualifications: Degree educated or compensating work experience

Required experience and skills:

• WordPress Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in WordPress development.
• Opinionated on WordPress best-practice, having worked on custom plugin and Gutenberg component development.
• Programming Skills: Expertise in PHP, Javascript, React framework, HTML/CSS
• Database Management: Experience with database management, including MySQL.
• Website Feature Implementation: Ability to implement and maintain custom post types, taxonomies, plugins, and custom REST API endpoints.
• Troubleshooting Skills: Proficiency in identifying and resolving website issues.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Hosting and Server Management: Familiarity with hosting solutions (WPengine), DNS, and server-side configurations.
• Cloudflare Knowledge: Understanding of Cloudflare services.
• Comfortable using and implementing GTM and GA4, including custom event tracking.

If this sounds like you, in return, we offer:

• Annual salary £50,000- 60,000depending on experience.
• 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays rising to 31 days after 5 years.
• Additional day of annual leave for your Birthday
• 2 additional volunteering days per annum
• Enhanced maternity pay scheme.
• Enhanced sick pay scheme.
• Season ticket loan scheme.