Delightful Ethical Digital

WordPress Support Developer (Lagos, Nigeria)

Fat Beehive is seeking an experienced, flexible and versatile WordPress Developer to join our Support Team: a natural problem solver who wants to make a difference every time they step into the office.

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Salary: 22M Naira per annum (Plus healthcare, insurance and pension)
Hours: 40 hours per week
Location: Ikate, Lagos, Nigeria
Working: Three days office attendance

As a WordPress Developer, you can demonstrate your skills through a strong portfolio of sites of varying complexity and are able to code object-oriented plugins. You’re comfortable using the command line and always look for ways to optimise workflow.

Key duties & responsibilities

Technical planning, 10% 

  • Work with our  Support Lead and Chief Technology Officer in ensuring your backlog is always up to date 
  • Plan your tasks from your Jira backlog (we’ll teach you this) to meet our clients’ needs quickly and efficiently 
  • Be curious about and keep up to date with the progress of PHP and other web technologies. 

WordPress development, 85% 

  • Code in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript(ES6), jQuery.
  • Write clean, efficient and readable code.
  • Be an expert in WordPress development and the WP ecosystem
  • Be experienced with Advanced Custom Fields.
  • Understand how to write efficient MySQL queries without the support of frameworks or CMSs.
  • Have used version control software such as Git (we use Bitbucket)
  • Have experience with command line environments.
  • Have proven experience integrating third party APIs such as Salesforce or CiviCRM with WordPress.
  • Have integrated with payment gateways such as Stripe, WorldPay, PayPal, GoCardless.
  • Be passionate about coding quality and meeting standards.
  • Be able to independently debug WordPress/PHP code.
  • Be able to communicate technical aspects to non-technical people.
  • Be considerate of time and budget allocations (so we can pay the bills!)

Other, 5% 

  • Accurately track time spent and ensure efficient production.
  • Represent Fat Beehive well in all communications with our clients

Qualifications

Skills

Essential: 

  • Create, maintain and update websites in WordPress. 
  • Scope: Gather requirements, come up with technical solutions, input into technical specifications.
  • Knowledge of WordPress inside and out: how actions/hooks work, how to extend functionality within WordPress
  • Advanced Custom Fields and how they work.
  • Excellent English (written and spoken)It would be an advantage to also: 
    • Experience with Twig/Timber or similar templating system.
    • Modern front-end javascript (e.g. React). 

95% of our clients are charity and not-for-profit organisations. We actively seek to work with this type of client and this means you’ll get to work with some very nice people indeed.

About Fat Beehive

Fat Beehive is a leading digital agency working with organisations across the non-profit and ethical sector. We’re a small and friendly team, and you get to work with our fantastic clients – all of which make a genuinely positive impact on our societies. We are a growing team of about 40+ who work in relaxed, informal offices in London, Lagos and Colombo.

Fat Beehive is dedicated to providing a friendly, relaxed, safe, fulfilling and fair work environment. We want to create an environment where people want to come to work – one that engages them to give their best.

We’ve all chosen to work in the charity design sector because we want to help bring about positive social change –and we know that starts with us.

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We especially encourage applications from women, racialised minorities, and disabled candidates.

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27+ days annual leave

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2 volunteer days per year

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Buy 5 extra holiday days each year

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