Wordpress Developer

The agency: Fundamental Agency is an Australian digital marketing agency. We've been running for 10 years, building and managing the full marketing stack for service businesses across trades, professional services and tourism. Websites, Google Ads, Meta Ads, SEO and conversion tracking, all handled as one system, so we're directly responsible for client growth. Our team is small and senior by design. We'd rather take on a sustainable amount of clients at a time and go deep with them, so the job that lands in your Slack channel has a real business owner behind it who is counting on you. The role: We're hiring a WordPress developer to own the build and development side of our website work. You'll be working across new builds, rebuilds, support tickets and ongoing development on live client sites. Designs come to you from our designers, and the strategy, sitemap and content are usually locked in before you start. Your job is to turn that into a fast, well built website that holds up under real traffic. This role includes both front end and back end development. We need someone who can take a design file and a brief, ask the questions that need asking, and get it built properly without being walked through every step. Immediate start is available. You won't be working alone. You'll sit alongside our other in-house team members including designers, developers and our SEO specialist, and you'll be part of the conversation about how a site gets built instead of just receiving instructions at the end of it planning stages. What you'll be doing: Building client websites in WordPress from approved Figma designs, front end and back end.Theme and template customisation.Writing custom functionality in PHP where a plugin isn't the right answer, and configuring plugins properly where it is.Performance work: Core Web Vitals, page speed, image handling, caching.Ongoing development and maintenance on live sites, including updates, fixes and new feature builds.Form, tracking and integration work with our ads and SEO team, including GA4, GTM, CRMs and booking tools.Migrations, staging to production deployments, and hosting side troubleshooting.QA on your own work across devices and browsers before it goes to review.Flagging scope and feasibility issues early, while a design can still change. We are constantly building our SOPs and documentation to ensure the team can adopt our workflows with ease. What we're looking for: Agency experience, or strong understanding of how a team collectively builds a website together.Solid commercial WordPress development experience, both front end and back end.Strong PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript knowledge.Comfortable building custom themes or working inside page builder based sites when that's what the project calls for.MySQL, WP CLI, Git, staging environments and cPanel or similar.SEO aware development: semantic markup, schema, clean URL structures, and an understanding of why site speed matters commercially.Able to work independently from day one, manage your own time, and communicate clearly.Experience with Shopify or Webflow is also highly regarded. If not hands on experience, then the back end and coding knowledge to work confidently in them, Liquid and theme structure on Shopify, custom code and CMS collections in Webflow. How we use AI: We use AI tools across the whole agency and we expect you to use them in this role. The goal is better work, not faster work. AI handles research, boilerplate, first passes and the tedious parts, which frees up your time for the judgement calls, the review and the detail that actually separates a good build from an average one. The standard for AI assisted work is the same as the standard for everything else. If you ship code you can't explain, it doesn't go live. The details: Full time, 35 hours per week, Monday to FridayRemote, working across Australian Eastern Standard Time.Immediate start available How to apply: We'd rather see how you think than read a cover letter, so there's a small hurdle to get over first. Send us your CV plus an unlisted Loom video, five minutes maximum, doing the following: Share your screen and walk us through two WordPress builds you're proudest of. Live websites, not staging sites or mockups.For each website, tell us what you actually built versus what came from a theme or a plugin. Be specific, and we'd like to know the reasoning for the choices made in the build.Talk us through the hardest technical problem on either project and how you solved it.Open the video by telling us which of the two websites you'd most want to go back and rebuild, and why. Applications without a Loom won't be reviewed. It takes 10 minutes and it tells us more than three reading a CV or running several rounds of interviews would.