IT & Development ✦ Dedicated & full-time

Web
Developer

Front- and back-end development and maintenance that keep your product moving — from $14/hr + GST.

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$14/hrFrom, + GST · full-time
70%Average saving vs a local hire
14 daysBrief → first day
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What a Web Developer does

A web developer extends your build capacity — front-end, back-end and maintenance — shipping features and keeping your site or app healthy.

Every StaffingSolutions.io web developer is recruited, hired and managed by us — reference-checked for your tools, working your business hours, and backed by our zero-risk promise: no placement fee, money-back first week, and a free replacement if the fit isn't right.

What they handle

  • Front-end — HTML/CSS/JS builds.
  • Back-end — APIs and logic.
  • Maintenance — fixes and updates.
  • Integrations — third-party and payment.
  • Performance — speed and SEO health.
  • Version control — clean Git.
The actual work

A week in the role

The build-and-maintain end of your website. Ships pages and features from design files, keeps the CMS and plugin stack from drifting into breakage, fixes what breaks on live, and handles the unglamorous work — staging deployments, form integrations, redirect maps, Core Web Vitals — that keeps a site earning.

The taskWhat that actually involves
Build pages from the design file

Converts approved Figma layouts into working templates — ACF blocks on a custom WordPress theme, or Shopify Liquid sections — with editable fields so your marketing team can change copy and images without raising a developer ticket.

Run the staging-to-production workflow

Does the work on a staging copy in WP Engine, Kinsta or a local environment, takes a database and files backup before deploying, pushes via Git or the host's migration tool, then re-tests forms and checkout on live.

Keep plugins and core current

Reviews WordPress core, theme and plugin updates on staging first, reads the changelog of anything touching checkout or forms, and applies to production in a window with a rollback point, because a WooCommerce extension update can take a store down.

Fix the checkout and enquiry paths

Investigates failures caused by code rather than the customer: Stripe or Afterpay callbacks not returning, shipping rules hiding a method, form submissions never reaching the CRM — reproducing with test-mode orders before going anywhere near live transactions.

Core Web Vitals and page weight

Works the Lighthouse and PageSpeed findings that actually move the needle: oversized hero images, render-blocking scripts, unused CSS shipped by a page builder, missing lazy loading, layout shift from web font swap — and re-measures after each change.

Build and wire up forms

Builds Gravity Forms or WPForms with conditional logic and spam protection, maps the fields into HubSpot or your CRM through the API or Zapier, and configures confirmation pages, autoresponders and internal notification routing.

Redirects and technical SEO plumbing

Maintains the 301 redirect map after URL changes, clears broken internal links, keeps the XML sitemap and robots rules correct, and implements the schema markup and canonical tags specified in the SEO brief.

Third-party integrations and APIs

Connects the site to booking systems, supplier inventory feeds, Xero or MYOB, and courier APIs — handling authentication refresh, rate limits, retries and logging so a silent API failure raises an alert instead of quietly losing orders.

Cross-browser and responsive bug fixing

Reproduces layout and behaviour bugs reported on specific browsers and devices, fixes them properly at the CSS or JavaScript level rather than stacking another override, and checks the fix against the other breakpoints before closing the ticket.

Site health and uptime response

Monitors uptime checks, PHP error logs and fatal errors, purges caching and CDN layers after each deployment, watches for plugin conflicts following updates, and responds when the site drops with the host support case already raised.

Security patching and hardening

Applies security releases promptly, removes abandoned plugins nobody maintains, tightens file permissions and admin access, and where a site has been compromised restores from a known-clean backup rather than deleting the visible symptoms and hoping.

Content and product updates

Loads product data, categories, variants and pricing into WooCommerce or Shopify from supplier spreadsheets, configures the tax and shipping classes your accountant has specified for GST and postcode-based freight, and checks rendering before publishing.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How much does a web developer cost?
From $14/hr + GST for a full-time, dedicated team member — roughly $29K a year against $95K–$115K all-in for the local equivalent once you add super, leave, payroll tax, software and a desk. No placement fee, no setup fee, no recruitment retainer: you pay from the day they start, for hours worked, and interviewing candidates costs nothing. Specialist roles sit a little higher. Run your numbers →
How fast can they start?
Typically 14 days from your discovery call to day one. In the first week we source and screen against your brief; you get three matched profiles and interview whoever you like. Once you choose, we handle the offer, the contract, equipment and connectivity checks, and induct them on our side before they reach you. Specialist roles — developers, NDIS claims, anything needing niche software — can take a week longer, because we won't pad a shortlist just to hit a date.
What if the fit isn't right?
You're covered twice over. If it's clearly wrong by day five, your first week is refunded in full. After that, a free replacement any time — new shortlist, new interviews, no second fee, because there was never a first one. Before it gets that far, talk to us: our HR manager will work through it with you and the team member, since most problems turn out to be an unclear process rather than the wrong person, and a fortnight of coaching usually fixes it. Replacing someone is the last resort, not the first move.
Is there a minimum term?
Three months, then month to month. It's the same runway you'd give a new local hire to learn your systems, your clients and your standards — and the team members who get a fair run are the ones who stay for years. There are no exit penalties at any point, and if the issue is the person rather than the role, the first-week refund and free replacement cover that separately.
How do you handle confidentiality?
The same way you'd treat any remote team member. Every placement signs an NDA and a confidentiality clause before day one, and they work inside your systems — your email, your CRM, your file storage — so you control what they can see and can revoke access instantly. No client data is stored on our side.
What stays with you, and what goes to them?
They take the recurring, process-driven part of the web Developer role — the work that happens the same way every week and eats your day. Judgement calls, client relationships, anything requiring your licence, sign-off or authority stay with you. The clients who get the most out of a web Developer hand over a defined process and keep the decisions, rather than handing over the whole function and hoping. On the discovery call we'll map which tasks fall on which side of that line before you commit to anything.
How do I hand the work over without losing weeks to training?
Record yourself doing the task once and talk through it as you go — a fifteen-minute screen recording beats a written manual every time, and your web Developer will turn it into a documented process you both work from. Expect the first fortnight to be shadowing and checking, then steadily less. If you have nothing documented, that's normal and it's not a blocker: we'll help you decide what to record first, and your account manager checks in through the whole ramp-up.