Web Developer
at Full Fact

Location Remote first within the UK. We work primarily from home but also have an office available in Central London for monthly in-person meetings with your team and quarterly all team meetings. You can expect to travel to the office at least 16 times per year.

Employment Type Permanent

We are happy to talk about flexible working.

Application Closing Date 10am on Monday 07 April 2025

Introduction to the role As a Web Developer at Full Fact, you will be part of a team that helps tackle the spread of misleading, dangerous claims—and hold those responsible to account.

Our website, fullfact.org, serves as the core platform for delivering this crucial work to a broad audience. You will play a vital role in shaping the technological infrastructure to ensure our digital presence is robust, accessible, and effective.

Joining our team at an exciting time of change, you will help us complete our transition from Django CMS to Wagtail. This is a full stack role with a strong focus on backend development within Wagtail. You will help design and build systems and processes that empower our content teams to work effectively and to facilitate an exceptional user experience. Frontend development skills are a bonus but not essential for this role.

You’ll work closely with colleagues across the Public Affairs team, contributing to projects and campaigns that shape public debate and promote accuracy in public life.

If you’re passionate about using technology to build a better information environment, and thrive in a collaborative, mission-driven environment, we’d love to hear from you.

If you are interested in applying but not sure you have all the skills, please do apply. We are open both to supporting learning on the job and to rearranging tasks within the team to suit the skillsets of the best applicant

Job Definition In this role, you will:

• Manage the switch from our Django CMS to a (ready to launch) Wagtail CMS.
• Deliver new features to our Wagtail CMS and website functionality.
• Ensure our codebase continues to be easily maintainable by a small team.
• Make architectural decisions that help determine how the frontend and backend interact.
• Support the software you write - occasionally this could mean working out-of-hours to resolve a critical issue or complete a deployment.
• Contribute technically towards pitches and project proposals.
• Provide support to internal users of Wagtail e.g. writing process documentation, troubleshooting issues and training new users.
• Work across the technical stack and occasionally build APIs to connect the Salesforce CRM and other web apps.

Outcomes The software you build is robust, and helps achieve real work impact to fight bad information through effective organisational processes and better external user experiences.

What we are looking for from you

Political impartiality and sensitivity:

• You are committed to the political neutrality of our work and have a good understanding of impartiality (please see the rules on our website).
• Understanding of public debate in the UK and sensitivity to the political context we work in.

Job skills/competencies Essential:

• A strong understanding and professional experience developing Django, Python and PostgreSQL.
• Working knowledge of modern version control software and practices (particularly Git and GitHub).
• A good understanding of Full Fact’s aims and how your role can meet charity needs.
• Be confident in communicating with both technical and non-technical internal teams to interpret project requirements and convert these into robust technical architecture.
• Understanding of frontend web technologies such as Javascript, HTML and CSS fundamentals, awareness of browser compatibility and responsive styling and knowledge or experience styling frameworks

Desirable:

• Experience or expertise with Wagtail CMS
• Experience and proficiency in frontend development
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Experience working with server management
• Experience with Agile working practices

What we offer:

• Starting salary of £41,400 - £55,000 per annum depending on experience.
• Workplace Pension
• Generous holidays
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• In addition, we close the office for a period between Christmas and New Year.
• Day off for moving home.
• Comfortable, centrally located London office with good transport links.
• Employee Assistance Programme.