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Salary £35K-£40K
WordPress Developer (Front-end Focused)
Are you ready to create your next breakthrough?
Digital Glue, a full-service integrated marketing agency, is seeking an experienced WordPress Developer with a strong focus on front-end development and design skills to join our website development team.
At Digital Glue, we prioritise the development, growth, and well-being of our team members. We believe that skilful and happy individuals deliver exceptional work. Join us and take control of your career trajectory.
As a WordPress Developer at Digital Glue, you will play a key role in creating visually appealing and user-friendly websites, taking projects from concept to final implementation. Our mission is to provide you with the tools and opportunities to maximise your potential.
Join our team of ambitious and success-hungry individuals who make a difference daily. We challenge ourselves and each other to learn new skills and deliver phenomenal results. At Digital Glue, we work hard but also prioritise your well-being and provide the support you need to reach new heights, both personally and professionally.
Responsibilities:
- Utilise your keen eye for design to create visually appealing websites that align with client requirements and brand guidelines.
- Apply your expertise in design systems, including colour theories, typography, spacing, and other design principles, to create cohesive and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces.
- Leverage your strong front-end development skills, including proficiency in CSS, JavaScript, and preprocessors, to implement responsive and interactive user interfaces.
- Utilise version control systems, such as Git or Bitbucket, for effective code management and collaboration within the development team.
- Apply your back-end experience, particularly in PHP, to handle server-side logic and integrate with databases.
- Leverage your expertise in WordPress, including knowledge of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), to develop custom themes and plugins.
- Demonstrate proficiency in plugin development, extending WordPress functionality to meet project requirements.
- Familiarity with Timber/Twig and Magento is a plus, as it will enable you to work efficiently on projects utilising these technologies.
- Utilise your creative skills to ideate and propose innovative solutions for website design and functionality.
- Take ownership of website development projects, from gathering requirements and creating moodboards to developing sitemaps, prototypes, and final implementations.
- Familiarity with development environments and deployment tools such as GCP, AWS, Cpanel, Plesk, and DeployHQ is desirable.
Requirements:
To work at Digital Glue, you’ll need to:
- Be open and honest
- Hold yourself and everyone around you to high standards
- Have the ambition to always learn and get better
- Be creative
- Have a positive, can-do attitude
- Have the ability to challenge (yourself and others)
- Have active listening skills
- Be able to easily communicate and collaborate with others
- Get on well with all types of people
- Be self-aware and able to reflect on your own performance
- Be coachable and willing to accept and learn from feedback
- Commit to delivering on promises
- Respect everyone around you, no matter their level of seniority
- Be willing to share ideas and actively contribute to initiatives in the business
To be a WordPress Developer (Front-end Focused) at Digital Glue, you’ll need to have:
- Proven experience as a WordPress Developer with a strong focus on front-end development.
- Solid understanding and application of design systems, including color theories, typography, and spacing.
- Strong front-end development skills, including proficiency in CSS, JavaScript, and preprocessors.
- Proficiency in version control systems such as Git or Bitbucket.
- Back-end development experience, particularly in PHP, to handle server-side logic and integration.
- Extensive experience in WordPress development, including knowledge of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and plugin development.
- Familiarity with Timber/Twig and Magento is a plus.
- Demonstrated creative skills with the ability to translate client requirements into visually appealing and functional website designs.
- Proven ability to independently create websites from scratch, from collecting requirements and creating moodboards to sitemaps, prototypes, and final development.
- Familiarity with development environments and deployment tools such as GCP, AWS, Cpanel, Plesk, and DeployHQ is desirable.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet project deadlines.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with team members and stakeholders.
What we offer
Private Health Insurance
Care and support when you need it the most, giving you peace of mind when it comes to your health. Plus, some nice little perks for staying active!
Cycle to work scheme
Until we learn how to fly, cycling seems to be the best option for navigating Birmingham’s traffic. Save big time on a bike and get ready to don that lycra
Hybrid Working
Some days you want to wear a ‘do not disturb’ sign on your head, some days you want to bounce a million ideas off your team. We get it. We trust you to get the job done, wherever you are
Friday Fundays
What happens on a Friday Funday stays on a Friday Funday. Until our social media manager uploads the photos to LinkedIn
Summer Parties
Bucking Broncos, pizza vans, bouncy castle assault courses, life size Hungry Hippos… expect the unexpected at a DG summer party, but always expect a lot of fun to celebrate a lot of hard work
Learning Commitment
We’re committed to helping you to always learn and get better, through a Personal Development Plan tailored to your goals and 10% of your time dedicated to learning
Early Friday Finishes
After a week of smashing our goals, we down tools early on a Friday so we can hang out as a team
Working for us
Skills can be taught – personality can’t. Among other things, DGers are people with great attitudes and willingness to learn.
Listening First
Understanding the organisations we work with, not only their strengths and weaknesses, but also their objectives and goals, and the longer term ambitions enables us to see beyond the immediate requirements, really allowing us to add value.
Delivering what we say
All our decisions are made on the basis of one fundamental question: ‘Will this benefit the clients?’ Our existing customers come first above new business opportunities and exceptional results for our clients will be delivered at all costs.
Open & honest communication
We are honest with each other regarding our performance and quality of work. To clients we are always clear about project status, what we can and can’t achieve, and if any mistakes have been made we will take responsibility.
Challenging ourselves and our clients
It’s our role to challenge our clients. Ultimately it means being confident to give our opinions – that’s what we get paid for! Internally, we challenge each other to get better and push each other so we produce outstanding work.
Being creative
Creativity comes not only in what we do, but also in our approach. We look at problems in different ways and create solutions which others wouldn’t think of. We do this for our clients but also for our own business.
Being self aware
We assess the strengths and weaknesses of the business, and ourselves, to improve where we are weak and build on our strengths. We understand the varied personalities of the team and complement these through recruitment and management.
Rewarding outstanding achievement
Where the team has achieved outstanding results for our clients and the business, they will be rewarded. We actively look for opportunities to reward our team – this may not always be financial, but with personal and unique rewards.
Always getting better
Anyone working at Digital Glue will be expected to improve the quality of their work on an ongoing basis. We seek training where appropriate, we look to learn from each other, and we create clear development plans for ourselves.
Making mistakes
We try new things, we test, we are creative and therefore mistakes will be made. We only make mistakes once and then clearly learn from those. We use the ‘fail small’ mentality when trying new things to limit the impact.
