Position: Lead Web Developer
Company: Cast From Clay
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We’re on the hunt for a technical guru who can find elegant solutions to web problems and help us grow our team of 3 talented Wordpress developers.

You’ll be an ambitious developer with a great deal of experience in Wordpress and beyond. You will be able to find solutions to client problems, navigate the team, create clear website architecture and deliver projects within established timelines. You will be hungry for tech innovation, discovery and experimenting and able to inspire a small team of developers to grow their skillset.

As a Lead Web Developer, you will be responsible for running all our web development projects, dividing tasks, ensuring quality control and advising clients and project managers in order to deliver fast, accessible and mobile friendly websites. You will be expected to lead work on websites, and especially to help deliver more complex functionality. You will also manage our portfolio of over 50 websites, leading on maintenance and security.

You will be looking after our three Lviv-based developers, ensuring their safety, security and wellbeing while the invasion continues. You will be the voice of our development team in the wider company.

What we are looking for

Must haves:

- Excellent English;
- 5+ years of developing with WordPress;
- Knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, HTML, jQuery, SQL, and CSS;
- Understanding of website architecture and aesthetics;
- Experience managing small/medium development team;
- Strong leadership and organisational abilities;
- Experience running large web development projects;
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills;
- Ability to accurately estimate and budget projects;
- Experience working with complex databases;
- Understand how to build accessible websites (according to WCAG - standards);
- Diligent, excellent attention to detail, a strong work ethic;
- Working self-sufficiently and as part of a team.

Nice to have:

- Degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or a related field;
- Experience working with WP Engine;
- ACF Pro knowledge;
- DNS management experience;
- Experience with Headless CMS;
- Knowledge of JS applications (React, Angular etc);
- Good understanding of cyber security.

About us

We're a London and Lviv-based communications consultancy that helps public policy experts shape conversations that strengthen democracy.

We want to see robust democracies, with people better engaged with the decisions and policies that affect them. Using data, strategy and design, we build powerful campaigns that give big ideas the impact they deserve.

We work with NGOs, think tanks, and university research centres to better connect policy expertise to the audiences that matter – to craft policy ideas into human-shaped stories, and breathe life into them.

We are active in our support for Ukraine in light of Russia’s invasion. We’ve raised and donated some £20,000 for Ukraine, and our colleagues have appeared on BBC, ITV, and on various websites (here for example: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/hunting-russian-kyiv-clay-kharkiv-b987590.html) to talk about their experiences and help shape the narrative towards Ukraine in the UK. Our CEO is currently training to cycle the 2,000km from London to Lviv in 14 days in May 2023, hoping to raise another £20,000 that will fund landmine removal in the east. You can read more about that here (https://www.justgiving.com/page/london-to-lviv-cycling-april-may-2023).

Examples of our web work

- Instinctif.com
- Domusnova.com
- Newlinesmag.com
- Southasianvoices.org
- E3g.org

What we offer

- Competitive salary with an opportunity to grow;
- All expenses annual work trip to London (when possible);
- Flexible working hours and opportunity to work in an office one day per week;
- Friendly, supportive working environment, and budget for team activities;
- Company laptop and $200 contribution towards kitting out your home workspace;
- An annual professional development allowance to support your growth;
- 25 paid days off per year plus Ukraine bank holidays;
- Enhanced parental leave after you’ve been with us for 18 months.

Start date: asap
Job type: 4 or 5 days a week (your choice), permanent
Salary: $4,000/month FTE (depending on experience)
Application deadline: 20 March 2023, but we may appoint sooner for the right candidate.

Company website:
castfromclay.co.uk