Actief Jobmade
Austria-wide jobs platform with advanced search and filtering — multilingual WordPress rebuild focused on mobile performance.
The Brief
Actief Jobmade is one of Austria's largest temporary employment agencies, placing workers across the country in industrial and logistics roles. The existing site had grown unwieldy — slow, hard to navigate, and converting poorly on mobile. The rebuild focused on job search UX and performance, particularly for the high proportion of users on low-spec Android devices on mobile data.
My Role
I led the frontend rebuild, working directly with the client. I was responsible for the WordPress theme, the Algolia-powered search implementation, WPML multilingual setup, and performance optimisation across the site.
Technical Approach
Job seekers need to find relevant roles fast. I replaced the slow default WordPress search with a faceted search interface backed by Algolia, with filters by region (Bundesland), employment type, and industry sector. Filter state is synced to the URL, making filtered searches shareable and bookmarkable. Results update instantly with debounced input — no page reloads.
The site serves German and Croatian-speaking audiences, with WPML handling content translation. This required careful attention to hreflang configuration for SEO, translated URL slugs (/stellenangebote/ vs /ponuda-posla/), and RTL-safe CSS for potential future language additions.
Mobile performance was treated as a priority throughout. Achieving 90+ Lighthouse performance on mobile required eliminating render-blocking scripts, lazy-loading below-the-fold images, significantly reducing the WordPress plugin footprint, and moving static assets to a CDN.
Key Features
- Algolia-powered search — faceted filtering by region, employment type, and sector with instant debounced results and no page reloads
- URL-synced filter state — applied filters reflected in the URL for shareability and bookmarkable searches
- WPML multilingual — German and Croatian with translated URL slugs and correctly configured
hreflangtags - Mobile performance — 90+ Lighthouse score on mobile via render-blocking script elimination, lazy loading, and CDN asset delivery
- Custom WordPress theme — built with ACF Pro for flexible content management by the client's team
Tech Stack
WordPress · PHP · JavaScript · Algolia · WPML · ACF Pro · WP REST API
Results
Mobile conversion rate improved by 28% within 60 days of launch. Page load time on 3G reduced from 8.2s to 2.4s.