Who we are:

For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world’s most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations.

Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It’s a place where you can genuinely make an impact – and be recognized for it.

We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers.

We encourage you to apply if your qualifications and experience are a good fit for any of our openings.

Your Role:

The Intermediate Web Developer is a member of a small, highly focused team, responsible for maintaining and improving the Global Relay corporate website including the information service website. This is an opportunity to work alongside some of the best developers in London and apply your craft in an environment that encourages creative thinking and autonomy. We encourage our developers to think beyond a single component to build complete system solutions. Challenge yourself by learning new technologies, and apply your skills across our different projects and application domains. If you are committed to code that is clean, well-tested, well-reviewed, performant and secure then you’ll fit in around here. You will be working very closely with the marketing & design teams who will provide you the product requirements.

Your Job:

Work as a part of an cross-functional and geo-located team to maintain & implement new features of the corporate and information service websites
Write unit and integration tests for your code
Collaborate with UI & interaction designers to translate mock-ups into a functioning web application that is accessible and responsive with exceptional usability
Collaborate with testers in development of test cases for JavaScript code and in some cases developing test cases to address accessibility and responsive usability
Collaborate with product owners on user story generation and refinement
Assist attain optimised and efficient, and best in class performance on our public websites.
Assist improve SEO, ensuring high performance of the sites across multiple regions.
Develop the Content Management System to create easily usable systems for distributed authors

About You:

Required Experience:

Understanding of HTTP request and response types
Minimum 2 years of JavaScript development either vanilla and/or using one or more UI frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, JQuery, etc)
Understanding of HTTP requests and responses
Minimum 3 years of experience with HTML5 and CSS3
Minimum 2 years of experience with PHP
Experience and proficiency with content management systems, ideally WordPress
Awareness of design patterns and PHP inheritance
Related web technologies like Sass/Less, AJAX and JSON
Experience with git version control

Experience with any of the following is a nice to have:

Experience of using and creating Gutenberg Blocks
Experience development using and awareness of Node task runners/pre-processors
Awareness of coding standards and principles like dependency inversion (SOLID etc).
Web Service API integration
Experience with TDD environment (Test Driven development)
Unit testing with PHPUnit and/or a JS test framework eg Mocha, Jasmine/Jest, React Test
Worked in an agile environment (Epics, User Stories, Tasks).

What you can expect:

At Global Relay, there’s no ceiling to what you can achieve. It’s the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You’ll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You’ll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you’ll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills.

Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual.

We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it’s flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.

To learn more about our business, culture, and community involvement, visit www.globalrelay.com.

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