Full - Stack Web Developer

Job Summary

We are looking for an expert developer (at least 5 years experience) to help us with our ongoing and future projects. You should be comfortable working with the entire web stack i.e. front-end (HTML/CSS), back-end (PHP, MySQL/ PostgreSQL) and writing templates (Twig, Mustache, Handlebars, etc.). Experience in JavaScript is not a necessity but is desirable. If you re passionate about writing code and wish to grow as a developer while building websites hands on, we d love to have you grow alongside us.

Responsibilities

• Participating in project planning, strategy and estimation
• Information architecture and data modelling, often in the context of a Content Management System (CMS)
• Converting designs into front-end templates that render as responsive, interactive webpages
• Building custom features and plugins that extend CMS functionality
• Auditing code to meet quality standards expected from modern websites, such as SEO, accessibility, security, etc
• Optimising websites for performance through caching, image optimisation and other #perf strategies
• Maintaining, supporting and upgrading past projects (typically, LAMP stack)
• Data migration from one CMS to another
• Documenting your work and communicating with project teams and clients
• Learning and staying on top of web standards, development workflows, coding strategies and other industry best practices

Your work will involve a healthy rotation of all the above. It is not expected that you will stand out at everything on the first day of your job. However, as a full-stack developer, we expect you to be comfortable with

• collaborating using version control systems (Git or Mercurial)
• writing PHP code using any modern framework (preferably Yii2)
• working with a templating language (preferably Twig)
• using package managers such as Composer, Npm, etc.
• using build tools such as Gulp, Webpack, etc.
• working with different data formats such as YAML, JSON, CSVs, etc.
• working with REST APIs
• using the unix command-line
• installing, developing and deploying a CMS-powered website (e.g. WordPress, Craft CMS, Ghost, Kirby, Statamic, Jekyll, Drupal etc.)
• converting design mockups into modular templates
• writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript and working with third-party front-end libraries

Desirable traits

• You favour a long term relationship over a short stint
• You are eager to take charge and get stuff done
• You are open to learning, and have the ability to pick up new technologies by reading documentation and tutorials
• You value your commitments
• You are good at communication, including writing
• You appreciate clean, readable code and honour coding style/ standards
• You like sharing ideas on how to make work more fun, meaningful and fulfilling
• You believe that an organisation should be run sustainably and with financial prudence
• You appreciate drinking coffee, watering plants and love mountains

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