Who Are We? 

Are Media is Australia’s leading omnichannel content company for women. Every day we influence, inform, inspire, and connect with 6 in 10 Australian women across magazine media, digital, video, social, e-commerce, customer review sites, podcasts, events and experiences.  Our brands include The Australian Women’s Weekly, Better Homes & Gardens, Woman’s Day, marie claire, TV WEEK, New Idea, Now to Love, Australian Gourmet Traveller, BEAUTY/crew and ELLE. Through our Change AREgenda we drive meaningful and positive change for women

Are Media employs Australia’s best content creation talent and we are proud that our greatest strength is our people. 

Why Are Media?   

Join Australia’s leading content company for women and be part of an inspiring, creative and collaborative team. We offer excellent people programs including:

• A day of leave for your birthday,
• 4 days of volunteering leave each year,
• An inclusive parental leave program that supports all parents, families & carers,
• FREE digital access to all our titles, and
• Our unique Are Media Learning Academy (Digital Academy, Lunch N Learns, Mentoring and much more).    

At Are Media, you'll be in the office four days a week, with one day to work from home. 

About the role

Duties

• Develops strong collaborative relationships with business stakeholders at all levels, based on trust, respect and taking accountability for the successful delivery of technology projects. 

• Ensures the quick turnaround of critical support issues for production systems. 

• Frequently seeks opportunities to augment customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships

• Assesses requirements for completeness and clarifies where required. 

• Contributes to team estimation of development work so that business stakeholders can make informed decisions. 

• Develops and maintains customer-facing websites using WordPress, hosted in WPEngine 

• Creates custom WordPress plugins and develops rich, interactive Gutenberg blocks using modern JavaScript frameworks, with a strong emphasis on React. 

• Writes PHP code using object-oriented paradigms, software design patterns and software development principles such as DRY, KISS and SOLID. 

• Works with vendors to consume or publish APIs, such as REST services. 

• Understands, follows, and contributes to the standard framework components used by the team. 

• Understands, follows, and contributes to the standards and processes used by the team. 

• Ensures development work (both coded by oneself and from other developers via code reviews) conform to agreed standards. 

• Delivers solutions that meet business requirements within agreed time and budget constraints. 

• Ensures solutions are documented and kept up-to-date. 

• Participates in systems architecture discussions. 

• Ensures the correct toolsets and processes are in place and that all relevant staff are trained and equipped to deliver successfully. 

• Ensures applications are kept in a maintainable state, both for current and future team members to inherit.

• Invests in professional development through regular learning opportunities to build on skills and knowledge. 

• Invests in personal development through wellbeing initiatives and taking regular leave to maintain a healthy work-life balance. 

• Skills and experience
• 3+ years professional experience in WordPress development
• Strong proficiency in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience using front-end JavaScript frameworks, such as React
• Solid understanding of Wordpress core functionalities, themes and plugins.
• Experience in custom theme development and plugin customization, including Gutenberg blocks. 
• Familiarity with responsive design principles and mobile-first development. 
• Exposure to MySQL database design and writing SQL. 
• An understanding of object-oriented paradigms, software design patterns and software development principles, such as DRY, KISS and SOLID.
• Experience with consuming 3rd party APIs such as REST services. 
• Strong written and verbal communications skills. 
• Excellent ability to prepare technical and support documentation. 
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, practices and principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Possesses the confidence to raise issues when required and collaborates to find optimal solutions.
• Experience with WordPress Multisite environments.
• Experience with CI/CD practices (e.g. Github Actions).
• Are Media is a proud member of Media Diversity Australia, a not-for-profit organisation working towards a media landscape that looks and sounds like Australia. We are committed to fostering diverse, respectful, collaborative & inclusive workplace. We know & value the success this brings for everyone and we welcome & encourage applications from diverse backgrounds. When you apply, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process. 
• Please apply now and send your CV via the link.

• Desirable Skills
• Experience with cloud hosting platforms, especially WPEngine and AWS. 
• Familiarity with containerized development environments.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.