Website Developer

The company:

Since 1959, the company has grown through acquisitions of local media outlets. Stations in Alberta include network affiliates and independent stations.

The Website Developer builds and maintains our marketing website and landing pages, mostly on WordPress. This role sits on the Marketing team and works with designers, content writers and the SEO lead. Our team is spread across 14 countries. Headquarters is in Calgary. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

What you'll be doing:

• Manage code in Git with a staging and production workflow.
• Launch campaign landing pages on short deadlines.
• Set up tracking with Google Tag Manager and GA4.
• Implement technical SEO: schema markup, sitemaps, redirects and canonical tags.
• Troubleshoot broken pages, forms and third-party scripts.
• Maintain hosting, DNS, SSL certificates and backups on WP Engine, Kinsta or AWS.

What we're looking for:

• 3-5 years of professional web development experience.
• Familiarity with SEO fundamentals and analytics tagging.
• Experience building responsive, cross-browser layouts.
• Comfortable with Git and deploying to staging and production.
• Portfolio or links to live sites you built.
• PHP and WordPress theme or plugin development, or Shopify Liquid.

What we offer:

• Monthly internet allowance.
• Company laptop.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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