Job description
Location: Remote but travel to London required as and when needed for team meet-ups at the office
Position: Permanent
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.co.uk, 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.
This is a hybrid role with the option to work from our offices in Kensington, London.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and develop new features for our enterprise-level WordPress property, inews.co.uk
- 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:
- 8+ years of experience with WordPress development
- Excellent 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
- 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 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
- Familiarity or experience with integrating subscription experience platforms such as Piano.io or Zephr
- Willingness to travel to London, if viable, for team meet-ups at the office every so often.
About dmg media
dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.
Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.*
Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 21 million total followers and nearly 30 billion views** in the past year.
www.dmgmedia.co.uk
*GA Sept 2024 **Dec 2023 - Nov 2024 inclusive
Our Commitment
We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
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.
