Wordpress Developer

Job Title: WordPress Developer

Location: Cardiff/ London/ Remote

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a WordPress Developer to own and maintain our marketing website. You will be the single point of contact for the website design, responsible for setting our website management and strategy. You will also collaborate with other marketers and business stakeholders to implement website changes, boost performance and report on results.

The role will responsible for front-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins. You’ll need a combination of programming skills (namely PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript) and aesthetics (understanding website navigation and customer journey, element arrangements on the screen, colour and font choices etc). The role will work very closely with our digital acquisition marketer to ensure the website is optimised to support online acquisition and audience building. Our ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of web design trends and content management systems.

As a WordPress Developer at Sonovate, you’ll use your skills to own our website, making updates and edits where required, and adding new pages. You’ll primarily work from home but enjoy our hybrid approach to work where you’ll join your team once a week in either our London or Cardiff office based on your location.

What we care about:

• Learning and improving within our highly skilled team

• Ensuring our website is a showcase of our brand and values

• Delivering tangible business and customer value

• Upholding web development quality and standards

• Technical architecture (security, scalability, performance)

Skills you'll need:

• Proven experience in WordPress development and maintenance of WordPress websites.
• At least 12 months experience as a FeD, you’ll be able to demonstrate your work with a strong portfolio of coded sites
• Fluency in WordPress coding standards: PHP, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.
• Proven experience with WordPress templating engines. We use Laravel Blade templates.
• Strong understanding of customer journey mapping and optimisation.
• Strong technical SEO skills
• Experience with responsive and adaptive website creation is preferred.
• Website analytics and reporting
• Strong time management and prioritisation skills.
• Appreciation of visual design and its importance in customer acquisition
• A ‘lifelong learner’ attitude with a hunger for new skills, experience and knowledge
• Lateral thinking ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Collaborative and able to work with other teams as the single point of contact about all incoming website requests.
• An understanding of marketing automation and email marketing would also be great.
• Please include a link to WordPress sites/projects that you have worked on.
• A hands-on test will be conducted in 2nd step interviews.

What is Sonovate

Sonovate provides tech-driven finance for the global contingent workforce. From starting as a challenge to the banks, Sonovate has grown to become the leading finance platform for funding the future of work, helping businesses of all sizes access and manage funding via our app or API. Created to make it easier for businesses and individuals to run and manage their working lives, to date we’ve funded nearly £3bn in over 40 countries

About our team

It’s not just the work you do that matters but who you work alongside and it's fair to say Sonovate would not be what is today without our people - we’re a group of high-performing, fast-moving, collaborative individuals, who are authentic and don’t take ourselves too seriously.

We’ve always valued quality over quantity when expanding our team and that means that we have teams full of star players, across the board at Sonovate - sharing our experiences and building something great.

Our team live and breathe our Sonovate Values. We look to them daily when engaging with each other, our customers, making decisions and developing our goals. As we grow, our processes and strategies may change but our values will always remain at the heart of Sonovate.

As a Team We

Solve Problems

Adapt to Change

Take Ownership

Because we give a sh#t!

What will you get in return?

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Techscheme with Apple and Currys PC World
• Cyclescheme
• Working with latest technologies and leading SaaS providers
• Full remote working during the lockdown period, supported by Zoom, Slack,
• Eye care vouchers with Specsavers
• 50% discounted gym membership
• 50% off mobile apps (Calm, Duolingo, Audible, Les Mills)
• 2 days charity leave per year
• You’ll work for a company that is passionate about personal development and a strong community focused culture

Sound interesting?

If your answer is ‘yes’ and you want to learn more, check out our Values Playbook and Behaviours deck here.

We know that diverse teams are strong teams. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture and are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing all our employees.

Please note: All successful applicants who are offered a role at Sonovate will be required to pass background screening checks before starting with us. These checks will include National ID Checks, Right to Work, Employment References, Adverse Financial History, Criminal Record, Global Sanctions, Bankruptcy check