Tab Media is hiring a WordPress/PHP Developer to join its head office in London. This is an opportunity to join the technology division at Tab Media, a fast-growing media startup which has raised £7 million in funding and publishes the influential editorial brand The Tab.
This role is perfect for someone with strong PHP and WordPress experience, with at least three years in a commercial role, who wants a diverse technical challenge on a large, high-traffic WordPress multisite. Reporting to the Technical Lead, you will have responsibility for maintaining and growing a site visited by millions of people every month, along with the infrastructure that powers it.
Working with a lot of autonomy, you will use your expertise to deliver redesigns of our editorial brands, and to engage their large audiences and launch products to serve their biggest fans.
In this role, you will:
- Manage a large WordPress multisite install;
- Have significant input into product development and roadmap;
- Take responsibility for devops and deployments;
- Maintain and optimise AWS infrastructure;
- Work with WordPress REST API;
- Build features for custom themes and plugins;
- Debug issues across the stack.
What we’re looking for:
- A wealth of experience within WordPress and PHP7 development;
- Experience using Amazon Web Services to deploy high-traffic websites;
- Strong MySQL experience;
- Experience building WordPress plugins and themes;
- Experience using and developing REST APIs (including the WordPress API);
- HTML, CSS and JS coding experience;
- A passion for building products with large user bases;
- You’ll be incredibly self-motivated and have the ability to take ownership of your role and work independently when needed.
Salary and benefits:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Company MacBook
- Breakfast provided in the office
- Young, sociable company
- Beer and Prosecco on a Friday
- East London office on the canal and Victoria Park
About Tab Media
Founded at Cambridge University in 2009, Tab Media is backed by large investors such as Balderton Capital and News Corporation. We employ 23 people working in technology, editorial, commercial and operations roles at our canal-side office in Hackney, London.
Our mission is to build a big media company which is loved, feared and imitated. We’re going to achieve it by building some of the most influential editorial brands on the internet.
Our principal brand, The Tab, is a news network covering student and youth culture and has a monthly audience of 50 million people and huge cultural influence. In the words of the New York Times: “Tab Media stakes out ground as a generation-defining brand a la MTV”.
How to Apply
To apply, please email Ryan at tech-jobs@thetab.com with your CV and any relevant links including (but not limited to):
- LinkedIn profile URL
- Github profile URL
- URLs of any relevant sites you have worked on that are not covered by any of the above – please include details of your contribution to the site
Note that while some remote working may be available, we are not looking for a remote dev and the successful candidate will need to be able to commute to our London office