Job Description
Atomic Smash is an award-winning WordPress & WooCommerce studio with an office in central Bristol. We help our clients achieve their goals through the constant evolution and improvement of their websites, taking data and insights and turning them into long term roadmaps.
In this role, you will be working closely with other members of the development team to keep on top of WordPress maintenance and support tickets. The successful candidate is expected to have a number of live example WordPress sites to talk through during the interview process, preferably these would include some form of complex functionality.
As well as maintaining WordPress-driven sites there is also scope for learning new technologies and expanding your skillset further. We want our team members to be constantly learning and therefore we always have internal projects which push our skills. We are also always on the lookout for conferences / talks for team members to attend.
We are an office first agency with the expectation of being on site 3 days per week, as we look to grow and embed our culture being on site is an important requirement.
Fully-remote applications or anyone outside of the UK will not be reviewed.
Recent projects include:
- Zuken
- Centre for Sustainable Energy
- Spike Island
- SS Great Britain
- The Grand Appeal
- Bristol Pride
- ForrestBrown
- Positive News
- Holburne
- The Institute of Physics
- Unlimit Health
- Open Planet
A typical day for the candidate and their accountability
- Communicating with clients to make sure their support issues can be resolved.
- Monitoring our bug tracking system and responding to issues in a timely manner.
- Keeping sites up to date with WP core and plugin updates and resolving any update conflicts.
- Being able to respond to server issues and hosting questions.
- Helping provision and deploy new web projects. You should be able to handle all server and domain related questions yourself.
- Supporting the development team to help improve local development environment improvements and helping their rollout.
Required skills
Skill Set required from the candidate:
- Deep understanding of WordPress and WooCommerce
- Amazing communication skills and the ability to work as part of team and comfortable communicating directly with clients
- Advanced HTML / CSS / SASS knowledge
- Advanced PHP knowledge
- Excellent understanding of how web servers work and how to deploy code
- Good organisational skills
- DNS knowledge and know how domains work
Benefits
- 32 days holiday per year – plus additional studio closure over the festive period
- Flexible daily start and end times
- Dedicated learning and development time
- Bristol-based office
- Access to a creative space for work and play
- Secure bike parking and showers at the office
- Workplace pension
- Access to unlimited external professional coaching
- Family-friendly workplace culture
- Dog friendly office (in rotation with other dogs)
Salary depending on experience, £35 – 40K
To apply please send a cover letter and CV to
Note we will not be able to respond to all applications and you may only hear back if you are invited for an interview.