The Company
Bigwave Marketing is an award winning, fun and creative marketing agency with 40 staff, providing a complete range of marketing, design, digital and business growth services.
Our mission is to make a difference to each other, our clients and to the end consumer. We can offer an environment for people that support our mission to thrive, grow and develop. You will be joining the team that won ‘Best Place to Work’ 2022 at the Western Morning News Business Awards.
We are currently looking for a WordPress Developer to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis, working 37.5 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £24,000 – £32,550 (dependent on experience)
- 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme
- Great development opportunities and career ladders
- Flexi-time and remote work policy
- Vibrant offices based in a convenient city centre location (when office based!)
- Agency shutdown at Christmas
- Office socials and perks
- ‘Best Place to Work’ 2022
This is an exceptional chance to learn, grow, and develop your career with a company that is truly passionate about their staff. If you are excited to work on diverse projects and contribute to our team's success, we want to hear from you!
The Role
As a WordPress Developer, you will translate bespoke designs into dynamic WordPress CMS websites.
Creating custom WordPress features for new and existing websites, you will develop efficient plugin solutions for easy feature management, as well as utilising and extending Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
You will also enhance, maintain, and debug legacy code, collaborating with our Account Management, Organic, and Creative Teams to deliver outstanding results for our clients.
About You
To be considered as a WordPress Developer, you will need:
- Experience in PHP development
- Experience with SQL and the ability to integrate with REST/SOAP APIs
- Proficiency in WordPress CMS
- Knowledge of PHP, HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery
- Knowledge of Custom Post Types and their implementation
- An understanding of MySQL and efficient usage of SQL commands
- Familiarity with popular WordPress plugins and page builders
- Familiarity with WordPress Ecommerce solutions like WooCommerce
Webrecruit and Bigwave Marketing are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
So, if you’re looking to develop a great career as a WordPress Developer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.