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Job Title: Experienced WordPress Engineer Location: Truro, Cornwall (Remote) Salary: Circa £40,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience Job Type: Full Time, Permanent About Us: Affinity is an award-winning, full-service, bespoke software development agency dedicated to solving digital problems for clients in both the public and private sectors. As a company, we are deeply technical and always flexible, with a core mission to deliver human-centered solutions to technical challenges. We work across the public sector, including central government, and enterprise-level private sector clients. We specialise in Discovery, Design, Development, Implementation, Data Integration and Migration, utilising open-source technologies including WordPress. We are committed to nurturing long-term relationships with our clients through quality-driven and cost-effective Support, Maintenance and Continuous Improvement. Please note that, due to the nature of this role and the fact that this company does not offer sponsorship, candidates require the legal right to live and work in the UK to be considered for this role. About the Role: We are seeking a UK-based, experienced WordPress Developer with related AWS hosting experience who will bring energy and drive, to join our agile development team. Self-motivated and with a can-do attitude, they will be looked upon to use creative problem-solving, coupled with significant experience of working with WordPress. The successful person will be part of an agile development team, building and maintaining customer websites and digital services using WordPress, SQL and PHP, utilising various services and open source tools. They will support existing solutions and help continually improve them through work packages. They will be working on a number of high profile accounts, ensuring that everything is completed to the highest level including design patterns, web security, technical documentation and application performance. Custom plugin and theme development experience would be desirable, together with a strong working knowledge of Git. They will be decisive and a good communicator, and will be looked upon to lead by example and help support the less experienced members of the team. Key Responsibilities Include: Key role on wordpress software support, development and AWS hosting projects as well as research and testing as required. Attend project meetings as requested by the Delivery Manager or Senior Developer. Record time spent on each project on a day by day basis to the required level of detail. Remain current regarding changes in relevant technology and systems to ensure that technical knowledge is up to date. About you: Ideal candidates will have experience integrating WordPress, tuning and improving WordPress implementations and enjoy fast-paced, challenging and real-time problem solving. Ideal skills, not limited to: HTML5, CSS3, Sass (Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, etc.) PHP and SQL Strong ES6+ Javascript skills, including Node JS and React Custom WordPress theme and plugin development Responsive/mobile web development RESTful APIs Version control, particularly Git Docker and containerisation AWS core services, such as EC2, ECS/EKS, EFS, database, CloudFront, WAF, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, IAM, etc. Infrasructure-as-Code - ideally Terraform and CloudFormation Strong communication skills, including client facing Ability to work as a team and autonomously Attention to detail and ability to work under pressure Commercially aware Useful experience for the role: Enterprise-level experience with either government or the private sector Continuous integration and deployment, incl. GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, etc. Non-AWS cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Benefits: We are a flat organisation and team members are rewarded for being great at what they do, not the seniority they have reached in the company. 1 day of extra holiday per year of employment, up to a maximum of 8 extra days. We accommodate flexible working when needed. Continuing professional development opportunities ranging from on-the-job training to formal qualifications and certifications. Access to a professional and life coach where appropriate. We are an Investors In People and Living Wage accredited employer. Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role. Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Front End Developer, Back End Developer, PHP Developer, Web Developer, SQL Developer, Javascript Developer, Git, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, React, Gutenberg, AWS, Docker, Vagrant may also be considered for this role.

FrontEnd Developer with Javascript Using the latest technologies, processes and tools to deliver state of the art web applications and innovation experiments (PoCs) Be responsible for translating business requirements into robust, scalable and reusable solutions Working as part of multi-disciplinary agile pods with other technical, creative and business roles Participate in engineering discipline, best practice and standards compliance within Innovation Programme and HSBC IT Requirements: 3+ years’ commercial experience The ideal candidates for this role will have expertise in the following: JavaScript / react.js / jQuery / npm / CSS / Sass / Less / HTML 5 / bootstrap Experience in consuming REST APIs and utilising JSON for web applications CI/CD - tools such as Jenkins, Nexus Version control and collaboration - GitHub Knowledge is desirable, but not essential in the following: Microsoft SharePoint 2013/Online – publishing features Good working knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS, Azure and GCP Agile methodologies – Scrum, Kanban Agile Tooling – Jira, Confluence, Slack In addition to the details listed above, the ideal candidate will have a mindset of an Innovator: curious, meticulous, connected, creative and communicative The Client is based in Krakow Poland – you will be working remotely for now – but will require to be available for meetings in Krakow Poland. The salary for this role is up to PLN 16K per month. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with you salary and availability.