Fantastic opportunity to join a well respected and established business based near Leicester as their Junior Web Developer / Graduate Web Developer

• Permanent Role
• Salary £26,000 - £29,000 depending on experience
• Hybrid working environment, plenty of opportunity to learn and develop within the team and wider business.

About the Junior Web Developer / Graduate Developer Role:

• You will be working closely with Website Manager, designers and marketing team to support in both front and back end WordPress Development
• Responsible for maintaining and improving existing website
• Contributing towards enhancement and innovation
• As part of the team responsible for building new website connecting the business to its customers
• This will include supporting the Website Manager to plan, develop and implement website features
• Resolving bugs and testing
• Collaboration with stake holders across the business

About you as the Junior Web Developer / Graduate Web Developer:

• You'll have previous experience of web development, this might be as part of your studies, a work placement, professionally or developing your own websites as a hobby.
• Able to demonstrate this with some form of portfolio of work demonstrating your skills and abilities which you'll be keen to build upon
• Experience working with WordPress and PHP would be advantageous, or other technologies such as Node.js, Typescript, Tailwind CSS.
• Familiar with version control systems such as Git
• A knowledge or grasp of SQL
• Knowing the basics of SEO
• Have some previous experience of Advanced Custom Fields plugin, custom post types and Gutenberg
• Above all a willingness to learn, a real desire to push yourself to try new and exciting things, a willingness to different ideas and ways of working to deliver and maintain great websites

Why should you apply:

• Salary of £26,000 - £29,000 depending on experience
• Fantastic opportunity to develop and learn, the company really invests in its people, the current Website Manager started in a similar role a few years ago and has progressed quickly through the business learning and developing new skills and capabilities as they went
• Opportunity to drive innovation and develop yourself as a professional developer
• Friendly team within a professional supportive working environment.
• You'll be able to learn and experience a lot by working with the team on a variety of projects.

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