Date: 1 July 2025.
Start date: Immediate or latest 1 August 2025
Contract Type: Full-time or part-time freelance.
Renumeration: R16,000 – R20,000 p/m, or, R100-R125 p/hr.
Are you a self-motivated WordPress Frontend Web Developer (or web development agency), who loves to build and upgrade WordPress websites that help clients win online?
We’re looking for a passionate, experienced, and reliable WordPress Web Developer (or white-labelled development agency) who loves people and websites as much as we do.
At Weaverbird Web, we’re all about crafting happy website experiences for our clients, and colleagues that help us all win online, together.
More specifically, we need a dependable, and talented developer to help us:
- Build WordPress websites from premium themes.
- Maintain WordPress websites.
- Help us shift into the Shopify eCommerce space.
- Manage our web hosting server.
- Help our clients with web hosting, email, domains, and transfers.
- Help keep our clients websites safe.
- Remove Malware and resecure.
- Manage website staging and migrations.
- Scope, test, and deploy new functionality requirements.
Why work at Weaverbird?
- Very friendly, and encouraging team to work with.
- Remote or Hybrid options available.
- Opportunity to work on big projects, diverse work type and great projects.
- Opportunity to help lead us forward in the new era of AI.
ROLES & FUNCTIONS:
- WordPress Website setup (10%)
- Web development through pre-made premium WordPress Themes (15%)
- Speed Optimisation (3%)
- Security hardening and Malware removal (3%)
- Basic SEO essentials (3%)
- Spell checking & Proof Reading (3%)
- Email setup & troubleshooting (client facing) (5%)
- Domain & Hosting Setup (5%)
- Website migrations (5%)
- WordPress video training for clients (3%)
- Basic PHP/Javascript/HTML/CSS edits (3%)
- Website troubleshooting (especially with WooCommerce) (5-10%)
- Finding new systems and tools to improve our service and product (3%)
- Staging, testing, checking for issues, broken links, functionality troubleshooting (10%)
Non-negotiables:
Please do not apply or enquire unless you fit the following descriptions:
Full time / Web Development Agency applicants:
- Available full time during South African Business hours (8am – 5pm).
- Fully dedication and priority to our business. Freelance projects cannot be undertaken during the above mentioned hours.
- Freelance projects must not eat into your times of rest (as in working late hours) as this impacts performance during the regular daytime work hours.
- Willing to have computer activity tracking software installed on work device or be very consistent in reporting on task completion and project updates.
Part time / Freelance / Web Development Agency applicants:
- Full time tracking transparency for all work completed.
- Robust digital security and compliance systems.
- Non-disclosure & confidentiality agreement in regards to client data.
Experience & Education.
- 4-7 years.
Remuneration:
R16,000.00 – R20,000 /month based on experience.
Or
R100 – R125 per hour / based on experience.
