Midweight Website Developer (Backend/Full Stack)

at  Sideshow

Vertical Leap, one of the UK’s top search and digital agencies, seeks a highly skilled, bright and ambitious full stack or back-end focused web developer to support our existing creative services and help to grow the skills of the development team.
This job is based either remotely or in our Portsmouth office, working alongside our talented and friendly team of web developers, designers and UX specialists.
Working in our creative team, your focus will be on the technical implementation of web and digital development. You will be expected to create high quality, structured, reusable and annotated code. You will also be proficient using third party open source packages and relevant code libraries. This work will be carried out to a deadline, and to project specification/requirements.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• High level of PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, SASS knowledge
• Is fully comfortable with Object Orientated Programming
• WordPress bespoke theme and functionality development
• Managing large data sets (CSV, JSON, XML) and importing/exporting from websites
• High level of API integration knowledge and experience
• To be very comfortable working on the backend of websites not just frontend
• To be able to create custom functionality from the ground up
• To be familiar with Apache server configurations (NGINX also desirable)
• Database management (e.g. mySQL) skills
• Standards compliant code, to Google Core Web Vitals requirements (e.g. optimised for SEO and speed etc)
• Project management with strong communication skills

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• Amazon SES – AWS
• Developing eCommerce solutions (i.e. code & plugins)
• Twig (and/or other template engines)
• Version control (e.g. Git)
• Other CMS’s (e.g. Joomla, Drupal, Craft, etc.)
• Agile working experience (e.g. Jira)
• Node and package managers

Please refer the Job description for details