EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
- Strong working knowledge of Wordpress, including plugin development and themes
- Strong working knowledge of PHP7/8 and OO PHP development, Javascript for frontend development, with 5+ years of development experience
- Frontend UI development with GOV.UK Design System, SASS and Webpack, with a very good understanding of accessibility and web standards
- Must be able to extend the GOV.UK Design System to create bespoke templates
- Ability to present and communicate technical solutions to a technical and non-technical audience
- Experience in working with third-party APIs, including MailChimp/AWS SES
- Knowledge of using debugging and security tools
- Ability to take ownership of the entire development lifecycle, i.e. development and testing through to deployment
- Experienced in using Git (Bitbucket) / SSH
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Experience working in government