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Full Stack Developer (WordPress) - Perm - Fully Remote

Location: dmg::media Headquarters – London

Position: Permanent

Location: Remote but some travel to London, if viable, for team meet-ups at the office every other month

Prerequisite of the role: Must have experience a good understanding of WordPress and Gutenberg ecosystem and development best practices

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
• Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

About the role

DMG Media is in search of an experienced developer to join our distributed development team in delivering new features, functionality and maintenance for our enterprise-level WordPress sites and related services.

As a developer for DMG Media you will primarily focus on product development and maintenance for iNews, but from time to time you may also work on shared services that support one or many of our sister brands.

At DMG Media you will become part of an established technology team where everyone can create and advance new ideas. Our dynamic, adaptable structure allows developers the freedom to build and create software that is highly effective and purpose-built, without the typical burdens of traditional enterprise-level organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop new features for DMG Media’s flagship enterprise-level WordPress property, iNews
• Contribute to and maintain shared plugins for all DMG Media’s WordPress properties
• Develop and maintain microservices and JavaScript libraries/applications that are independent of but co-exist with our WordPress brands
• Monitor and improve response times, database query times and core web vital scores.
• Participate in discussions about technology choices based on business value, scalability, maintainability and project delivery performance
• Independently prioritize and manage work with little direction, while adhering to project timelines in a fast-paced environment
• Debug and troubleshoot website issues raised by our editorial and support staff

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience with WordPress development
• Good understanding of the WordPress and Gutenberg ecosystem and development best practices
• Experience in creating custom Gutenberg blocks, custom RSS feeds, and WP-JSON API endpoints.
• Expertise with modern performant HTML, CSS, and PHP
• Expertise with front end JavaScript and React and experience of Node.js and server-side JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of Git and VCS principles.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and project planning tools like JIRA
• Capability to individually see a full-stack project from beginning to end
• Understanding and knowledge of Core Web Vitals and the importance of them
• Excellent communication skills owing to a remote role within a distributed development team.
• Good understanding of how to use Chrome DevTools to debug issues on the front end
• Be a strong problem-solver.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with the WordPress VIP platform
• Enterprise experience of building WordPress at scale – Edge and object Caching, Query optimization and WP Cron
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic and Kibana
• Experience with Typescript / Webpack
• Knowledge and use of WP-CLI and creation of custom commands
• Integrating and using AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2, API Gateway)
• Knowledge and experience of developing for and publishing to AMP and Apple News
• Knowledge and use of CI tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions and TeamCity
• Experience writing bash or python scripts on an ad-hoc basis
• Interest and experience with Generative AI
• Willingness to travel to London, if viable, for team meet-ups at the office every other month.

About dmg::media

“dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.*

Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.**

Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content.

In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers.

*PAMCo H2 2023

**GA 2023 September”

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.