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Join Slow Ways as the Lead Technologist and shape the future of sustainable travel in the UK
Overview
Salary £50000
Location UK - Hybrid
Nomad Friendly? In-person- United Kingdom
Expires Expires at anytime
Organisation summary: Slow Ways is an inspiring not-for-profit initiative focused on creating a national network for walking and wheeling. Our mission is to motivate a shift towards more sustainable and healthy forms of transportation, fostering a community that values accessibility and environmental well-being.
- Lead the technological development of a national walking and wheeling network.
- Drive innovation and project management using Agile methodologies.
- Manage and enhance web technologies, ensuring security and high performance.
- Collaborate with a team to analyze, review, and improve route data.
- Proficiency in Laravel, WordPress, Python, MySQL, Tailwind CSS, Livewire, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML is essential.
- Experience with SEO, on-page optimization, and testing tools like Laravel Dusk.
- Skilled in deploying and managing websites with CloudWays/AWS.
- Remote interviews to commence in the week of 9th October 2023.
- Final in-person interviews scheduled for the week of 16th October 2023.
- Job offers to be extended in the week of 23rd October 2023.
Slow Ways is a visionary initiative to create a national walking and wheeling network. We are working to inspire more people to walk and wheel more often, further, and for more purposes. We are a not-for-profit Community Interest Company with a strong mission.
The role: As our new Lead Technologist, you will enable people from across the country to make, share, review and improve the walking and wheeling routes that make up our network. You will be responsible for leadership and collaboration, PHP development, geographical information system tasks and spatial expertise, data analysis, DevOps, application programming interface management, running WordPress securely and achieving high performance, web technologies, testing, using Agile methodologies for efficient project management, and research and innovation.
Job requirements: Proficient in Laravel, Wordpress, Python, MySQL, Tailwind CSS, Livewire, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. Familiar with SEO and on-page optimization. Experience with deploying and managing complex websites with CloudWays/AWS services (ECC, S3, Redis, RDS). Experience with implementing testing with Laravel Dusk, a browser automation and testing tool.
Benefits: This is a permanent part-time role (3-4 days per week). Contract, job share and other proposals will be considered. We are also interested in hearing from candidates who may not have significant experience, but that are highly skilled and confident they can fulfil the role.
Applications details: First interviews will be conducted remotely during the week of 9th October 2023. Second interviews will be in person (to be confirmed) during the week of 16th October 2023. The offer to the successful candidate will be made during the week of 23rd October 2023.
Additional information: You must be located and legally allowed to work in the UK. We are an equal opportunities organisation. All our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, citizenship or marital status.
