Full Stack Developer

Summary

Join DMG Media's distributed development team as a Full Stack Developer (WordPress) and contribute to the development and maintenance of their enterprise-level WordPress sites, primarily inews.co.uk. This permanent, hybrid role offers the flexibility of remote work with occasional travel to London for team meet-ups. You will be responsible for developing new features, maintaining existing functionality, and improving performance. The ideal candidate possesses extensive WordPress development experience, strong front-end and back-end skills, and excellent communication abilities. This position requires collaboration within a distributed team and independent project management.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with WordPress development
• Excellent understanding of the WordPress and Gutenberg ecosystem and development best practices
• Experience in creating custom Gutenberg blocks, custom RSS feeds, and WP-JSON API endpoints
• Expertise with modern performant HTML, CSS, and PHP
• Expertise with front end JavaScript and React
• Strong understanding of Git and VCS principles
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and project planning tools like JIRA
• Capability to individually see a full-stack project from beginning to end
• Understanding and knowledge of Core Web Vitals and the importance of them
• Excellent communication skills owing to a remote role within a distributed development team
• Good understanding of how to use Chrome DevTools to debug issues on the front end
• Be a strong problem-solver

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop new features for our enterprise-level WordPress property, inews.co.uk
• Contribute to and maintain shared plugins for all DMG Media’s WordPress properties
• Develop and maintain microservices and JavaScript libraries/applications that are independent of but co-exist with our WordPress brands
• Monitor and improve response times, database query times and core web vital scores
• Participate in discussions about technology choices based on business value, scalability, maintainability and project delivery performance
• Independently prioritize and manage work with little direction, while adhering to project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Debug and troubleshoot website issues raised by our editorial and support staff

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the WordPress VIP platform
• Enterprise experience of building WordPress at scale – Edge and object Caching, Query optimization and WP Cron
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic and Kibana
• Experience with Typescript / Webpack
• Knowledge and use of WP-CLI and creation of custom commands
• Integrating and using AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2, API Gateway)
• Knowledge and experience of developing for and publishing to Apple News
• Knowledge and use of CI tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions and TeamCity
• Experience writing bash or python scripts on an ad-hoc basis
• Familiarity or experience with integrating subscription experience platforms such as Piano.io or Zephr
• Willingness to travel to London, if viable, for team meet-ups at the office every so often