Senior Full Stack Wordpress Developer
Clickatell, South Africa
Job Description
Add your voice to the chat revolution:
Are you excited to work for a tech company on the front lines of innovation for some of the biggest brands in the world? Do you thrive in environments where challenging the status quo is the daily norm? If you’re an A player with energy, initiative, and focus on delivering top results, or as we refer to our teammates at Clickatell a Champion then read on.
At Clickatell, we’re upending the way companies connect, engage, and transact with their customers in chat. Chat is something you do every day with your friends, but it’s also a simple technology that we’ve helped our customers to use to accomplish pretty amazing things. Clickatell helps businesses power customer support, customer engagement, and payments all through chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Our customers are some of the most admired and recognizable companies in the world and our communications technology is used to reach more than 15,000 global brands every year. Our jobs offer you a chance to grow your career and work with global teams on technology that is quite simply changing the world.
Our flexible work from home policy allows this role to reside anywhere near one of our Clickatell offices in Bellville, Cape Town, Toronto, Canada or San Francisco, CA. If you want to test yourself, work on meaningful projects in a fast-paced environment, and be where every day presents new possibilities, come join one of the greatest global tech companies. We want you!
Purpose:
We’re in search of a strong, hands-on senior-level developer to manage the development and optimisation of Clickatell's corporate website, streamline integrations to new and existing systems and implement changes to support business process changes. Our ideal candidate can contribute to both frontend and backend, brings creative solutions to every challenge and quickly learns new technologies and programming languages. The individual in this role will report into the Marketing Manager and is based in our Cape Town offices.
Requirements
The role of our Champion:
- Full stack web application development in a variety of languages
- Responsible for the upkeep, security and optimisation of Clickatell's website (WordPress)
- Complete development projects above standards and on time, troubleshoot technical issues, proactively suggest development process and/or coding improvements, and create/maintain supporting documentation
- Provide leadership in improving development capabilities and applying best practices and standards
- Manage the technical processes across integrations (Hubspot, Salesforce, etc.), customer journeys, data capturing and lead enrichment
- Drive marketing and customer experience programs across web and email via management, execution and ownership of the end-to-end development process
- Manage the internal processes with the networks and infrastructure team to build and scale back end services
- API design, implementation and improvement for internal systems as well as external 3rd party systems
- Identify opportunities to improve existing development process and workflow
- Leverage analytics tools and growth-hacking methods to conduct tests, track performance, and drive optimizations
- Push innovation by continually evolving interactive methodologies that go beyond the norm for web development; research and apply digital development trends and functionality solutions within websites, email campaigns, automation platforms, and beyond
- Develop testing procedures for completed work
The capabilities of our Champion:
- Hard working, excels at building interdepartmental relationships and collaborate
- Be the authority in web development and maintain a high level of confidentiality and professionalism
- Solve problems creatively and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Extensive knowledge of the digital landscape, emerging technologies within a business-to-business market
- High levels of attention to detail and well-developed troubleshooting and problem resolution skills are essential
- Work with a sense of urgency and thrive in a fast paced, mission-driven environment
- Ability to create high-level estimates for complex programming tasks
- Excellent verbal amp; written communication skills
- A strong desire to write clean, well-documented, standards-compliant code
- A solution owner that can support and troubleshoot issues, identify root cause, and proactively implement sustainable corrective actions
Our Champion's journey thus far:
- BS degree (Computer Science) or equivalent experience
- 6+ years experience developing with JS, Java, Angular web technologies
- Deep understanding and