Software Developer

Glow is a web application that allows WordPress developers to manage all their clients’ websites from one dashboard.

We have a growing number of paying customers and need an extra developer to be able to keep building the product at the pace we want to.

We are looking for a software developer to join our team and to work alongside our other developers, who are currently outsourced.

Your attitude:

– Excellent communication – it’s imperative that your communication skills are outstanding

– Thoroughly check all work before handing over – only handover work for us to test once you have thoroughly tested it yourself

– Ability to work alongside others in the team – you will be working with our other developers, Head of Product and on occasion, Glow’s Founder

– Be a problem solver – you may not have all the answers to solve any given problem, but you know how to deal with a challenge. Using all the resources at your disposal, you can find proposed solutions and collaboratively implement a working solution

– Ability to follow structured systems and processes

– Transparency – be open and clear at all times

– Make decisions and be responsible

– Be passionate about tech and software

Technical (Infrastructure):

Web App (Front end)
– Click to view / Laravel

Plugin (we have built a plugin for connecting Glow with WordPress websites)
– PHP
– Databases (SQL/NoSQL)
– MySQL
– DynamoDB

Back end
– Click to view

Infrastructure
– Elastic Beanstalk (Front end)
– RDS (SQL)
– Serverless (Lambda)

Services (AWS)
– Lambda
– Step Functions
– Cloudwatch Events
– S3 (For any config storage)
– ACM (To generate SSL certs)
– Application Load Balancer (To attach custom subdomains / SSL certificates)

Technical (Skills you’re required to have):

– Click to view
– Click to view
– PHP
– GitHub
– Detailed understanding of AWS
– Ability to read our User Stories and Wireframes (screen designs) and make sure the finished product matches these exactly
– Excellent written and spoken English

Nice to have:

– Detailed understanding of how WordPress works

Outcomes:

You’ll be responsible for ensuring:

– All code is written clean and coherently and commenting is used extensively to help other developers working on the project

– Excellent communication with the other developers working on the project so that we can be assured all code is written well and tested thoroughly before launch

– You communicate daily with the team to update us on the work completed

– Once live, any bugs are fixed quickly to minimise downtime / poor experience for our customers

– You provide your professional advice where applicable to help with creating the highest quality end result