Reporting to:

Head of Engineering (Professional Services)

About the role 

As a Pugpig Developer, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional mobile app experiences using web technologies like HTML, SaSS, Vue.js, JavaScript, and PHP. Working within our professional services team, you'll craft and structure custom WordPress themes and plugins to create polished, rich and visually stunning mobile applications. 

Beyond development, you’ll dive deep into our product codebase, becoming a subject matter expert and the go-to individual that supports both professional services and product development teams. Your expertise will ensure smooth project delivery and empower you to contribute to the continued evolution of our leading platforms. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop native App webview UI’s and occasionally feature rich Wordpress websites from a design concept to a pixel perfect product collaborating closely with support engineers and clients 

• Developing custom WordPress themes and plugins with rich custom logic, extending our CMS services which are based on WordPress 

• Writing neat, testable, efficient code 

• Participating in daily stand-ups, meetings, sprint demos and retrospectives 

• Working closely with project managers, customer success managers, support engineers, as well as other back-end, front-end, web and native app developers, to deliver custom projects according to agreed scope, time and budget 

• Debugging/fixing and replying to support requests from clients 

• Consulting with clients on their designs and projects, where necessary joining client calls to discuss issues and solutions, and communicating via Slack/Email with updates, to request information and to answer questions 

• Working with project managers to scope and estimate custom projects, working through solutions, and helping to identify risks, issues and dependencies

• Studying, interpreting and understanding product code 

• Acting as a facilitator for professional services and product developers to support delivery

About Pugpig

• We are the best mobile publishing platform on the market and we work with the world's best media companies.

• We work in close partnership with our customers to conceive, evolve, customise and operate our platforms, so they can focus on their core business.

• Our platforms power hundreds of apps for the biggest media brands in the world, including The Independent, New Scientist, The Spectator, Condé Nast, Reach, DMG Media, CNN, Hearst and many more.

• We work with news media, consumer magazines, B2B publishers and membership organisations.

• Our teams in London, New York and the Philippines offer deep expertise and support to customers around the world.
  

Working at Pugpig

Here are some of the things you’ll experience if you come and join us:

• You’ll be working with the world’s best media companies

• Alongside an awesome, vibrant team of technology professionals

• With a set of values that puts an emphasis on quality of life for all of our team members

• Hybrid working and shorter days on Wednesdays and Fridays

• Performance-related bonus scheme

• Wellbeing support and healthcare options

• Volunteering days every year so that you can support a charity that’s close to your heart

• Training and conference budgets that help you stay on the top of your game

Our values

• Be the solution

We take the initiative and seek to solve problems with creativity.

• Make tomorrow better

We think critically about what will deliver our goals and improve tomorrow;

Our future selves will thank us.

• Zoom out

We think big picture and look beyond our immediate field of vision.

• Be kind

We communicate with kindness, openness and respect;

We approach interactions with a positive and supportive attitude.

• Enjoy the ride

We have fun and prioritise quality of life, even when we’re up against it.