Job Title Web Line Manager
Location Remote
Working Hours & Salary Offered
Full Time
Salary: R15000 to R40 000 per month depending on experience
WHATS IN IT FOR YOU
Paid Holidays
- 40 days paid holiday annually - (28 days + bank holidays + extended festive period shutdown)
Partnership / Skin In The Game
- All of our team members qualify to become partners within our organisation, following the usual probationary period. On this partnership model, each partner is eligible to receive a share in the profit of our business, along with the opportunity for real input into its management and financial performance. Partners have additional special benefits including the opportunity to work from home on certain days.
Support & Culture
- You'll be joining a group of fun, friendly, and geographically diverse professionals who love our work and get a kick out of over-delivering for our clients.
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ABOUT OUR ORGANISATION
We are a dynamic London-based web and digital agency working with clients from well-known brands to innovative start-ups, creating custom websites and eCommerce stores, as well as bespoke apps and CRM systems.
We believe in investing in people and want to build an organization that everyone benefits from in both the short and long term. Considering this philosophy, we have Investors in People, Living Wage and Disability Confident accreditation, amongst others.
WEB LINE MANAGER - WELCOME TO YOUR DREAM JOB
If you are an experienced Web Line Manager with a breadth of dev management experience and have worked in an agency environment before, then read on
THE ROLE - WHATS IT ABOUT
As the Web Manager you will oversee projects from conception to implementation and provide guidance to the rest of the development team, if this is you then wed like to meet you..
You will get to work on some of the following projects
- Multi-country websites in multiple languages
- Client Portals
- Staff Portals
- Intranets
- Bespoke Integrations
- eCommerce
- Bespoke CRMs
You should be confident in every stage of development, from analysis, design and development to testing, and implementation.
THE FINE PRINT
Mandatory Skills - 2 to 4 years and a degree in computer science, IT, systems engineering, or related qualification is preferred
- Proven experience managing a development team (2 years mandatory)
- Developer experience (2 years mandatory)
- Proficient in PHP/MVC/Laravel and WordPress (mandatory)
- Working knowledge in HTML/CSS, XML; knowledge of SQL and Javascript (preferred)
- Knowledge of web analytics and SEO
- Familiarity with web standards
- Working knowledge of website management tools
- Excellent understanding of content management systems (CMS) and technology infrastructures
- Creating bespoke WordPress themes from scratch
- Either using a boilerplate theme or creating new individual files from scratch
- Not based on existing themes
- Not based on customising child themes
- Not based on page builders such as visual composer
- Not based on using only plugins to extend side functionality
- Competent with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
- Good understanding of custom post types, taxonomies, and WordPress theme structure
- Competent at developing front end interfaces using Bootstrap
- Proficient in using Linux command line
A high level of proficiency in:
- Managing a team of developers in an agency environment
- Troubleshooting the website and constantly improving the User Experience (UX) of the website
- Fantastic time management skills with the ability to multi-task
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Ability to generate creative ideas
- Attention to detail and outstanding organisational skills
- Strong attention to detail with an analytical mind and outstanding problem-solving skills
- Good understanding of WooCommerce
- Experience creating bespoke plug-ins
- Experience using GitHub
If this sounds like your dream job and you'd like to become a part of our success story, please apply with your CV and 2-3 relevant examples of your proudest achievements so far and well get back to you!