Senior Web Developer - Remote

About us

West IT is a small IT shop: the owner, four technicians and a part-time office manager. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules.

The role

The Senior Web Developer - Remote builds and maintains our marketing website and landing pages, mostly on WordPress.

What you'll work on

• Launch campaign landing pages on short deadlines.
• Customise Shopify themes with Liquid and manage store apps.
• Troubleshoot broken pages, forms and third-party scripts.
• Train marketing staff to edit content without breaking layouts.
• Maintain hosting, DNS, SSL certificates and backups on WP Engine, Kinsta or AWS.
• Implement technical SEO: schema markup, sitemaps, redirects and canonical tags.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional web development experience.
• Familiarity with SEO fundamentals and analytics tagging.
• Basic understanding of web hosting, DNS and SSL.

Preferred

• Webflow or HubSpot CMS.
• React or Vue.
• WooCommerce or BigCommerce.

What you get

Rate: R73,000 - R82,000 a month

• Co-working space stipend.
• Annual learning budget.
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Wellness allowance.
• Company laptop.
• Performance bonus.
• Annual salary review.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at West IT.