Senior WordPress Developer

Location: Cardiff – Flexible Hybrid Working

As a Senior Word Press Developer, you will support the team in their continued learning and development, through sharing experiences, presenting on topics, and mentoring specific skills. Alongside this, you will also be responsible for leading architectural decisions and choosing approaches to ensure the team delivers high quality software.

You will have the opportunity to grow your skill set within the Word Press ecosystem, as well as the potential to broaden your outlook to other server‑side frameworks, and front‑end technologies.

• Utilise your knowledge of Word Press to develop new functionality, configure installations, and choose plugins, in order to create exceptional software solutions that exceed our client’s expectations
• Troubleshoot, investigate, and fix bugs
• Participate in, and undertake, code reviews, and lead pair programming activities with others in your team
• Lead and actively participate in project, sprint and client meetings
• Provide specialist guidance and support, acting as a mentor and coach within the development and project teams
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within Box UK to contribute towards the overall success of the business performance
• Be an ambassador for Box UK, embodying our brand and promoting our culture, values and behaviours

• A minimum of 5 years Word Press or PHP experience
• Worked on projects that required custom plugin development
• Worked with APIs, databases, and other external data services
• A strong understanding of working with modern PHP
• An understanding of web performance and why it’s important
• Experience of creating unit‑tested solutions
• A love of clean coding practices (SOLID etc)

• Experience of developing e‑commerce solutions, ideally using Woo Commerce
• Experience of supporting technology, such as Elasticsearch or Varnish.
• Developed Word Press solutions used at an enterprise scale
• Experience of trunk‑based development and CI/CD practices

Excellent communication and active listening skills with the ability to express yourself clearly and articulately, both orally and in writing. Able to build strong and effective, collaborative professional relationships and credibility at all levels, and motivate and inspire others to achieve results.

Promotes collaboration within the team to collectively achieve goals and required outputs. Supports colleagues’ ideas and suggestions, challenging and expressing disagreement constructively and respectfully. Inspires and encourages others to deliver high quality outputs.

Motivated and comfortable working autonomously.

Relish in tackling complex issues and offering creative solutions.

Able to demonstrate a clear focus on the desired results of own and departmental outputs. Effective in directing efforts and resources towards delivering departmental and individual goals and objectives.

Open to different and new ways of doing things, developing and supporting the introduction of new and improved methods, processes, technologies and ways of working.

Able to prioritise workload and tasks effectively for both you and other members of your team.

Willing and able to respond to changing circumstances and expectations readily.

Driven to complete projects to a high standard whilst meeting required deadlines. Pushes themselves and their colleagues to deliver required outputs. Responds to setbacks with renewed and increased efforts; is persistent and remains positive in the face of challenge.

Thorough in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small.

You will enjoy a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

We recognise that our success comes from the talent, passion and dedication of our team. Working collaboratively, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, reinforcing our culture of ownership. We understand the importance of personal growth and professional development and invest in the skills of our people to nurture their talent. Our working environment is fast‑paced, exciting and fun to work in.

We are an inclusive employer that welcomes diversity, challenges discrimination and promotes equality. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic.