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Junior Developer

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Job Description: Junior Developer

Location: Remote

About Us

We specialise in affiliate SEO, digital publishing, and performance-led growth. What sets us apart is how we work. We move quickly, act decisively, and continuously refine our approach to stay ahead of the market.

We are a hardworking team that values clarity and results. We communicate directly, execute with focus, and are committed to doing things properly. At the same time, we’ve built a genuinely friendly and supportive environment where ideas are shared openly and collaboration comes naturally.

We don’t wait for opportunities; we identify them early and execute with precision.

We’re not here to participate. We’re here to outperform!

Key Responsibilities

Duties will include but are not limited to:

· Assist with the maintenance and ongoing development of our WordPress websites.

· Regularly update WordPress core, themes, and plugins to ensure websites remain secure and up to date.

· Help optimise website performance and page load speeds.

· Support the development of new website features and enhancements under the guidance of senior developers.

· Assist with maintaining and improving custom WordPress themes and plugins.

· Help with website migrations, deployments, and testing activities.

· Assist with pre-release and post-release QA checks, including redirects, canonicals, noindex tags, robots.txt, sitemap changes,

tracking scripts, broken links, and basic crawlability checks.

· Work with staging environments and follow deployment checklists before changes go live.

· Support the setup and launch of new content websites based on existing themes, templates, and internal standards.

· Monitor basic website issues such as downtime, broken pages, visual bugs, slow pages, and plugin conflicts, and escalate critical issues quickly.

· Maintain clear documentation of website changes, plugin updates, deployments, and technical fixes.

· Support the maintenance and querying of SQL databases.

· Troubleshoot bugs and technical issues, implementing fixes where appropriate.

· Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code following team standards.

· Create and maintain technical documentation for development work.

· Work closely with developers, designers, SEO specialists, and marketing teams to deliver projects.

· Participate in code reviews and use feedback to continually improve your skills.

· Communicate effectively with colleagues and contribute to a collaborative team environment.

· Deliver high-quality work while meeting agreed deadlines.

· Continuously develop your technical skills by learning new tools, technologies, and best practices.

Requirements

· A basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

· Awareness of Cloudflare, DNS and website hosting.

· Familiarity with WordPress and an interest in web development.

· Basic knowledge of SQL or other relational databases.

· Understanding of version control systems such as Git.

· Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

· Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a team.

· A willingness to learn, take feedback, and develop new technical skills.

· Ability to manage workload effectively and meet agreed deadlines. A collaborative mindset

· Good proficiency in spoken and written English is required, as English is the shared working language across our international

teams.

Desirable

· Experience building or maintaining WordPress websites through personal, academic, or commercial projects.

· Basic SEO awareness

· A basic understanding of Linux command line.

· A basic understanding of caching

· Familiarity with custom WordPress themes or plugins.

· Basic understanding of REST APIs.

· Exposure to website performance optimisation or caching techniques.

· Experience using local development environments (e.g. LocalWP, XAMPP, Docker).

· Basic knowledge of Linux hosting environments or web servers.

· An interest in SEO, affiliate marketing, or digital marketing technologies.

· A portfolio, GitHub profile, or examples of personal development projects.

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