Location
East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber
The Role
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for a Senior WordPress/PHP Developer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Website Builder Platform Team.
This role is aligned with the specification of Senior Developer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
We currently have over 200 experienced developers who make up the engineering community across the MoJ. You will coach and mentor junior colleagues and take part in informal support networks with your peers. You will be encouraged to play an active role in the engineering community and culture.
You’ll be confident working with other developers on our tech stack and comfortable learning new technologies and systems. We use a variety of different technologies and will work with you to place you in a team that matches your skills, interests, and aspirations wherever possible.
We take responsibility for supportive and effective line management very seriously. We will value the skills you bring to the civil service and help you build on them. When the time is right, we will support moving between teams or government departments to learn different technologies, or take on more responsibility, according to your career goals.
Our Tech Stack
We use a range of technologies and we’re looking for people who have experience of building web applications or back-end systems in an object-oriented language, and love learning new languages and frameworks.
We use WordPress/PHP and React JS to write our application code, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Sentry for application monitoring, Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (read about our Cloud Platform), AWS for most of our infrastructure and use a MacOS developer environment.
For front-end development, we value a robust understanding of the underlying web technologies. We value well-maintained, open-source tools that can be used to produce semantic HTML, performant CSS and unobtrusive JavaScript and we assess all our services against accessibility criteria.
Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technologies we use, and a complete list of services that we build and maintain. We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical:
- Expert knowledge of WordPress/PHP and React JS programming languages, CSS/HTML
- Experience in building and maintaining WordPress themes and plugins.
- Experience building and development WordPress Full Site Editor features.
- Experience in working with the WordPress full site editor
- Building WordPress blocks from scratch
- Version Control and GitActions
- Building and working with microservices using containerization (Docker)
- Revise, refactor, update, and debug code
- Collaborate with internal teams to design, create and maintain software
- Knowledge of AWS architecture, tools and resources
Non-Technical
- Attention to detail
- Strong verbal and oral communication skills
- Time management and organisational skills
- The ability to work independently or as part of a team
People:
- Developing and influencing people via line management duties, informal and formal coaching and mentoring
- Supporting lead developers in building high performing teams
- Helping to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity and balance
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
- Demonstrate proven experience of delivering large and complex software solutions
- Building and maintaining WordPress themes and plugins
- Apply modern development and deployment techniques to your work, including continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Champion software maintenance, clean code, coding standards and practices that make change and consistency easier
- Write automated tests to continuously validate your work
- Work effectively within multi-disciplinary teams, demonstrating a commitment to the principles of agile software development and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
- Hold yourself and others to a high standard
- Solve problems in a systematic way
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance
National Salary: £58,511 - £65,329 / London Salary: £63,343 - £70,725 with additional allowances
