Job Title : WordPress Developer (Media)
Company : View TV Group
Location : Reading, Berkshire
Job Type : Full Time
***** Applications made by recruiters will NOT be accepted *****
Who we are:
View TV Group produces entertainment TV and VOD content and broadcasts own and other owner’s channels on the http://kapang.com platform for smart TVs, set top box and any internet-connected / mobile devices and monetises own and customer’s content through sponsorship and programmatic advertising.
Job Description
Please note: This is not a social media content WP Admin/Edit role. The responsibilities of the role are ;
- Accountability for the full stack from backend optimisations to the HTML, JavaScript and CSS on the frontend
- Responsibility for the development of multiple websites
- Responsibility for WP data & database management, themes, design & layout, plugins, customisation and optimization
Role
- Write code on a daily basis ranging from complex custom modules to simple CSS tweaks
- Develop the full stack including UI Design and front end coding
- Develop custom PHP applications to business requirements
- Work with team members (who are your 1st line customers) using agile planning and delivery techniques
- Work with team members to automate configuration management and deployment
- Integrate applications with other enterprise and 3rd party services
- Analyse and fix application functional and performance issues
- Evaluate plug-in solutions to meet application functional needs
- Write and run tests for the code you write
- Run code reviews with team members
- Proactively suggest improvements to the codebase both to enhance the application and support Only Motors to meet its objectives
- Inquisitive, self-learn new skills and bring them to work and apply them
- May occasionally need to work outside of normal working hours
Key Skills
- Must have 5 years experience in WP and use of PHP, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS (may have JQuery & MySQL experience too)
- Experience working on websites that will be seen in many countries and understanding that a small code change can have a large impact on the perceived speed for the end user
- Great communications skills being able to talk infrastructure to system admin one minute and explain how to use a new widget to a team member the next
- Twitter Bootstrap
- CSS pre‐processor and related built tools
- Understanding of caching mechanism, such a memcache.
- Building WordPress plugins and themes
- Code profiling tools such as xedug and new relic.
- Documented history of open source, github profile or similar.
- MySQL tuning and optimizing queries
- Developed using cloud systems such as AWS / S3
- Understanding and implementation of SEO
Salary: £32K – £45K DoE
How to Apply
If this sounds like the role for you, then we’d love to hear from you.
Please send your CV and a covering letter telling us why you think you are the right candidate to nicky.scanlon@viewtvgroup.com
Closing Date for Applications: 25th January 2021