Front End WordPress Developer (London)

SoBold is a high-performance, website design and development agency based in London. 

We are a dedicated team that all share the same values in the production and delivery of our work. Our values are kindness, accountability, creative thinking, awareness and teamwork.

We are looking for an ambitious Front End Developer with WordPress experience to join our growing team working on a range of websites and platforms. As part of the role, you’ll play a key part in re-architecting one of our key clients’ websites making use of NextJS and Gutenberg. 

In this role, you will work closely with other Front End and Back End WordPress Developers and will report directly to our Technical Director. You must be confident and willing to bring innovative ideas to the table.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilising a variety of markup languages to develop pixel-perfect, responsive web pages.
• Working with React/Next.js/GraphQL to build decoupled sites that pull content from a headless WordPress CMS.
• Ensuring web development is optimised for smartphones.
• Building reusable code for future use.
• Optimising web pages for maximum speed and scalability.
• Create documentation outlining processes and/or offering advice on how to go about tackling certain issues for clients and other team members.
• Developing more technically challenging functionality, including AJAX-loaded content.
• Snagging and testing websites to ensure they adhere to our high standards.
• Taking the lead of front-end aspects of projects where necessary.
• Assisting more junior members of the front-end development team.

Key Requirements

• Exceptional understanding of HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Experience using React/NextJS/GraphQL to create headless WordPress websites.
• A minimum of 2 years experience in using PHP to render WordPress websites.
• Experience with custom post types, Gutenberg and the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
• Very good knowledge of GIT-based workflows.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• High level of understanding of SEO principles.
• Good planning and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
• A hybrid working environment, with up to two days working from home per week after your probationary period.

Our hiring process

• Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect from the rest of our hiring process:
• We review your application and portfolio.
• A 15-minute phone call with our Technical Director so we can find out more about you and you can find out more about the business and role.
• A small WordPress-related task (if you don’t have a portfolio that showcases the types of experience we’re expecting to see).
• A face-to-face meeting with our Technical Director, Managing Director and Lead Developer to give you a flavour of our team and offices so we can give you an introduction to some of our workflows and processes.
• Get an offer!