Creative Web is an award-winning Surrey-based web design agency, looking for a mid-weight to senior developer to join our in-house development team. You'll take ownership of builds from kick-off through to launch, work directly with clients and designers, and play a real part in how we use AI to raise the quality and speed of everything we produce.
Required skillset
- Strong, demonstrable experience building and maintaining WordPress websites, including custom theme development.
- Confident with HTML, CSS and JavaScript well beyond the basics.
- Solid working knowledge of PHP and MySQL, and comfortable debugging both.
- Experience owning projects end to end rather than working from tightly defined tickets.
- 3+ years in a web development or similar role, ideally agency-side.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve bugs efficiently, including in code you didn't write.
- A keen eye for detail and accuracy/consistency in layout and information.
- A good communicator, confident dealing with clients directly and explaining technical decisions in plain language.
- Ability to think through and solve problems independently, and to know when to escalate.
AI capability
- Confident, everyday use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Claude Code, Copilot or similar) with a clear sense of where they help and where they don't.
- Good instincts for prompting, context, and reviewing AI output critically.
- Interest in building as well as using: internal tooling, automations, scripts, and AI-assisted workflows that save the team time.
- Willingness to help set standards for how we use AI, and to bring others up to speed.
- Curiosity about where this is heading and a habit of testing new tools as they land.
Beneficial but not essential
- Experience with React, Next.js or Vue.
- Headless CMS experience (Sanity, Craft or similar).
- WooCommerce or Shopify.
- Working with third-party APIs and integrations.
- jQuery/Ajax.
- Site performance, Core Web Vitals and technical SEO fundamentals.
- Familiarity with Adobe Suite or Figma for handling design handover.
- Experience building agentic workflows, MCP servers, or custom AI integrations.
The role
Working for a rapidly growing digital agency, you will be:
- Building client websites, from small updates through to complete bespoke sites.
- Taking technical ownership of projects, including scoping, estimating, and flagging risk early.
- Collaborating with project managers and account managers to hit deadlines and manage expectations.
- Maintaining, improving and extending existing client websites.
- Handling support tickets via our ticketing system.
- Identifying and building AI and automation improvements to our development process, and contributing to internal tooling.
Qualities
- Ability to self-manage, organise, and prioritise across multiple projects.
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines without dropping quality.
- A good team member who's happy in client and internal meetings.
- Dedicated to finishing the job to a high standard.
- Curious and forward-thinking, someone who embraces new tools and isn't afraid to suggest a better way of doing things.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £38,000.00-£45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cranleigh GU6 8JJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- agency: 1 year (required)
Work Location: In person
