- The ability to design your own path in your career through constant hands-on experience. There’s plenty of room to upskill with LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight and a wide range of educational resources.
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Maternity and Paternity leave
- Hybrid working
- Choice of tools: We support your skills by allowing you to work with the tools you’re most comfortable with. Yes, you can choose between using a Mac and Windows!
Working at Zesty
The only way to deliver exceptional solutions is by having an amazing group of in house specialists from all sorts of backgrounds.

We have a team of enthusiastic designers, developers, and account managers
Working at Zesty
Bring your career to life at Zesty by joining our exceptional team of in-house specialists. We’re looking for people with Zest-appeal!
Our teams in development, design and account management are all defined by their experience and enthusiasm! Be it in the office or remotely, Zesty’s a great place to work.

Benefits of working for Zesty
- Company size: we’re small but growing, and the company is set up so that you never feel lost in a sea of people and tasks.
- Comprehensive private medical scheme
- A generous pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Four volunteer days a year
- 25 days holiday (with public holidays on top of that)

Current vacancies
Teaming up with talented people like those on our team is essential to what we do.
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Graduate Software Developer (PHP) | Competitive | Belfast | Development |
We are: Zesty is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for technology, the Internet and customer service. Zesty is an award winning digital strategy, design and development agency with over 25 years’ experience gained across 2000+ digital projects. The team: The development team consists of developers covering a wide range of technologies such as
The section you would be working for is the Open Source / PHP team, working primarily with WordPress and Symfony. There is no dedicated Voice `team` as such. Instead, voice applications are delivered by developers across the teams. If this is an area you are interested in, then there will be opportunities for you. Your role: Junior Software Developer (PHP) To eventually be responsible for the development of internal and external customer-driven applications, including CMS configuration and development of business logic handling, back-end database integration and a wide variety of API integrations. You will learn to model data and workflows to fit the business requirements in order to design a solution that will deliver on the objectives. You may be expected to work with databases using Raw MySQL, WordPress Query Builder and an ORM such as Doctrine, Propel or Eloquent this is true as much of WordPress as it is of Symfony development. WordPress development in Zesty is not simply a “Plugin & Configure” role, it is very much a development role. You should show capability in delivering using an MVC approach regardless of the underlying platform and be able to demonstrate and ability to code websites and/or plugins from scratch. To enquire about this role please submit your CV to Kayelle Danyluk and a link to some supporting sample code that demonstrates your capabilities. Day to day you will: The day to day work consists of learning multiple frameworks and technologies through experience by supporting our existing client base; assisting in the delivery of new projects for our clients, both internal and external across a range of sectors, and taking part in personal developemnt or training exercises. What we’re looking for from you: You’re a keen and eager developer with a passion for internet and related technologies, and the benefits that it brings to the business. You should have a qualification in a relevant discipline or have demonstrable experience of web-based application programming and database design/integration, preferably with knowledge of WordPress, Symfony or Laravel, Linux, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, Git. You should be able to demonstrate an understanding of PHP in an Object Oriented sense and will have a good grounding in software engineering princples. For example:
To enquire about this role please submit your CV to Kayelle Danyluk and a link to some supporting sample code that demonstrates your capabilities. What’s in it for you? We are a diverse and dynamic team that is expanding. We have an amazing office, a flexible working pattern and a great team environment. We’ll help you deliver your best work and grow you with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses.
Equal opportunities: The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where all talents are fully recognised and utilised. This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age. To enquire about this role please submit your CV to Kayelle Danyluk and a link to some supporting sample code that demonstrates your capabilities. |
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Senior Software Developer (.NET) | Competitive | Belfast | Development |
We are: Zesty is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for technology, the Internet and customer service. Zesty is an award winning digital strategy, design and development agency with over 25 years’ experience gained across 2000+ digital projects. Job title: Senior Software Developer Your role: As a Senior Software Developer you will be on the .NET team, working primarily with Kentico, although other CMS platforms including Umbraco and bespoke systems are also in use. You will be responsible for the development of internal and external customer-driven applications, including CMS configuration and development of business logic handling, back-end database integration and a wide variety of API integrations. Day to day you will:
What we’re looking for from you: Experience;
Other:
Zesty Benefits We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at Zesty. Alongside pay, we offer:
Equal opportunities: The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised. This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age. To be considered for this role please submit your CV to kayelle.danyluk@news.co.uk |
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Software Developer (PHP) | Competitive | Belfast | Development |
We are: Zesty is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for technology, the Internet and customer service. Zesty is an award winning digital strategy, design and development agency with over 25 years’ experience gained across 2000+ digital projects. The team: The development team consists of developers covering a wide range of technologies such as
The section you will be working for is the Open Source / PHP team, working primarily with WordPress and Symfony. There is no dedicated Voice `team` as such. Instead, voice applications are delivered by developers across the teams. If this is an area you are interested in, then there will be opportunities for you. Your role: Software Developer (PHP) To be responsible for the development of internal and external customer-driven applications, including CMS configuration and development of business logic handling, back-end database integration and a wide variety of API integrations. You should be able to demonstrate an ability to model data and workflows to fit the business requirements in order to design a solution that will deliver on the objectives. You may be expected to work with databases using Raw MySQL, WordPress Query Builder and an ORM such as Doctrine or Illuminate this is true as much of WordPress as it is of Symfony development. WordPress development in Zesty is not simply a “Plugin & Configure” role, you should show capability in delivering using an MVC approach regardless of the underlying platform and be able to demonstrate and ability to code websites and/or plugins from scratch. To enquire about this role please submit your CV to Kayelle Danyluk Day to day you will: The day to day work consists of delivery of projects for our clients, both internal and external across a range of sectors, including but not limited to: tourism, entertainment, publishing, sport and eCommerce. Developers are required to take the outputs from the front-end and design teams and to `wire-them-up` to a CMS or Backend system to provide the dynamic functionality required, always working closely with other members of the delivery team. Typically these are brochureware websites built in WordPress or more complex web applications built in Symfony. Developers are assigned to work in project delivery teams for the duration of a project and you would see a project through from start to finish. In addition to yourself, that fully in-house team is made up of Graphic/UX Designer(s), Front End Developer(s), Account and Project managers In addition to the above delivery team, we work closely with our colleagues in Tibus to deliver solutions with bespoke hosting or infrastructure needs, offering the ability to deliver all-encompassing solutions across the full tech-stack. What we’re looking for from you: You’re an experienced developer with a passion for internet and related technologies, and the benefits that it brings to the business. Agency experience would be desirable however not essential. You should have a qualification in a relevant discipline and have proven experience of web-based application programming and database design/integration with particular knowledge of WordPress, Symfony or Laravel, Linux, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, Git. To enquire about this role please submit your CV to Kayelle Danyluk What’s in it for you? We are a diverse and dynamic team that is expanding. We have an amazing office, a flexible working pattern and a great team environment. We’ll help you deliver your best work and grow you with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses.
Equal opportunities: The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where all talents are fully recognised and utilised. This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age. To enquire about this role please submit your CV to Kayelle Danyluk |
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Project Manager | Competitive | Belfast | Client Services |
Who We Are: Zesty is an ambitious and ever-growing digital agency with a passion for web technology and Client service. Since 1996, we’ve successfully delivered over 2,000 projects covering Strategy, UX, Design and Development, harnessing our teams’ abilities to ensure best practice via effective and measurable online platforms. The role: Reporting to the Head of Client Services, you will manage and deliver industry leading digital projects on time and within budget for a wide variety of Clients, requiring liaison with our inhouse resources and trusted partners to ensure project requirements are always met. Day to day you will: What we’re looking for from you: We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board and D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
To enquire about this role, please send your CV to Andrew Outar |
