Software Developer (PHP/Wordpress) - Up to £85,000 TC - London

Role Type : Perm

Title PHP/Wordpress Web Developer

Client – Established Financial Institution

Salary - Up to £85,000 TC

Location – London

This firm is a dynamic and innovative fintech firm looking for a skilled Web Developer to join our close-knit team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for maintaining and improving our corporate and information service websites. You’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with a group of talented professionals, working in an environment that values creativity and independent thinking.

The client believes in developing complete, end-to-end solutions, not just individual components, and encouraging developers to constantly expand their skill set and work across a variety of projects and domains. If you’re committed to writing clean, well-tested, performant, and secure code, you'll be a great fit for this team. You’ll also work closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing and design, to bring product requirements to life.

Your responsibilities:

• Work as part of a geographically distributed, cross-functional team to maintain and enhance the corporate and service websites.
• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests to ensure code reliability and stability.
• Partner with UI/UX designers to turn mock-ups into fully functional, accessible, and responsive web applications with outstanding usability.
• Collaborate with testing teams to create and refine test cases, including those focused on JavaScript functionality, accessibility, and responsive design.
• Engage with product owners to contribute to the development and refinement of user stories.
• Contribute to achieving optimal performance and efficiency across our public-facing websites.
• Assist in improving SEO to ensure consistent, high performance across multiple regions.
• Develop and enhance the Content Management System to provide an intuitive and streamlined experience for distributed content authors.

About you:

Required Experience:

• Understanding of request and response types
• Minimum 2 years of JavaScript development
• Minimum 2 years of experience with PHP
• Experience and proficiency with content management systems, ideally WordPress
• Related web technologies like Sass/Less, AJAX and JSON
• Experience with git version control

If this sounds like your next role and you would be keen on hearing more, please do not hesitate to apply or reach out direct for a confidential chat!