Wordpress Engineer London, United Kingdom

GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world's poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that $70B of cash transfers would be required to eliminate the poverty gap; the aid sector currently spends $135B each year, much of it on evidence-free interventions. GiveDirectly wants to change that, establishing cash transfers as a benchmark for foreign aid – as the index fund is a benchmark for the financial industry – and in the process accelerating the end of extreme poverty.
GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011, delivered cash to more than 1.5 million people in 15 different countries. We've also supported large-scale, experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD's leading role within it) have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.
Across our global offices, our culture is candid, analytical, non-hierarchical, and agile. We work alongside 750+ individuals who come from 21 different countries and speak 69 different languages. Team members at GiveDirectly attest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords, but a fundamental part of our culture and values. We actively seek to recruit individuals from the communities we serve, and use DEI as a lens in our hiring practices, programs, and initiatives. Our goal is to maintain a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, and feel valued and respected for who they are. We strive to be inclusive of all cultures and experiences while upholding our values globally. In the spirit of our "Know Yourself and Grow" value, we recognize there is always room to improve our team's working experience. But day to day, we aim to "Create Positive Energy" - we take care of one another, have fun, aim to maximize flexibility and accessibility in roles, and pursue professional development opportunities to stay challenged & engaged in our work.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Role OverviewTitle: Wordpress Developer Are you ready to genuinely transform people's lives with your work? We want you to work together with our designer, website manager and engineers to continuously improve www.givedirectly.org to help raise more money for those in extreme poverty.
This role has previously been carried out by a volunteer for a few hours per month. We are now ready to be more ambitious and really take our site to the next level, investing in you and an in-house designer.
This won't be project work with artificial client-driven deadlines. You will be continuously improving the same site, working with great people you will get to know well, and every $1000 or so that we raise transforms a life.
The end of the calendar year is busy for us: it is when we raise the most money. Having someone in-house will help us be better prepared and ensure that nothing goes wrong at this critical time.
Reports to: Fundraising engineering manager
Location: This role is fully remote with flexible hours that might suit you if you have caring or other commitments that mean you cannot do 9-5 in an office. You are required to overlap with an East Africa time zone by at least 4 hours each day.
You will need to travel for between one and three weeks a year to meet the rest of your wider team face-to-face.
We are also open to the role being 80% part-time if that is more attractive to you.
Responsibilities:Maintain our Wordpress infrastructure to ensure it is always secure and available.Plan, review and schedule updates to the core site, plugins and other dependencies.Manage our hosting (currently using wpengine, but are open to other solutions).Improve www.givedirectly.org to raise more funds.Implement new Wordpress components for independent development and updates by other GD staff.Implement style and theme changes across the site.Completely implement and A/B test changes to our most important pages.Identify and remove pages that are no longer needed.Clean up legacy styles and themes.Remove old plugins, code, and approaches.Qualifications:You care about our mission to end extreme poverty.You have emotional intelligence and can foster inclusivity.You possess a can-do, problem-solving attitude.You can plan and organize your own multi-month projects.You can follow through on plans.You can reason about messy systems and manage complexity.You know how to manage a Wordpress site.You can create and update Wordpress themes and blocks.You know how to keep Wordpress secure.You can work within and clean-up messy legacy Wordpress sites.You can make changes without creating downtime.You have experience working in a team with designers and website managers.You can manage your own time and work without immediate supervision.You proactively keep everyone informed about project status.This is not a good role for you if:You are a perfectionist.You crave variety in projects.You need an office environment.You need the adrenaline of tight deadlines and close supervision.Nice to haves:Experience in low-income and/or historically marginalized communities.If you have an eye for design, copy-writing, or software engineering, there will be opportunities to grow.Experience with user testing and designing based on user feedback.Priority Application Deadline: TBD
Flexible work options:This role is available as either full-time or 80% part-time. For the 80% part-time, you can choose to work:
Monday to Friday: 6.4 hours per dayMonday to Thursday: 8 hours per dayIf you opt for 80% part-time, you will be paid 80% of the salary. A minimum of 4 hours of overlap with the NYC timezone is required each day.
Compensation:At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third-party salary aggregator to ensure that staff's total compensation package falls within the 75th percentile of similar roles. We have a no negotiation policy to ensure equitable pay across roles.
We will share an estimated salary benchmark for your specific country during the hiring process.
About the hiring processThe hiring process follows the same general outline for all open roles:
First interview (20 mins)Take home skills assignment (~90 min)Panel interview (1 hour)Final interview (30 min)Reference checks (20 mins each)Interview Venue and Accessibility We conduct interviews over Google Meet with camera on. Closed captioning is available during all interviews, and interviewers will post questions in the chat box. If you need assistance accessing these features, please let your interviewer know at the start of your interview!
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