Senior WordPress Engineer (Freelance)

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• You have a keen eye for details, even the small ones
• You are an enthusiastic WordPress advocate who is curious about how emerging technologies – including AI – can enhance the platform
• You are fueled by a balanced blend of humility and confidence
• You appreciate order and efficiency but have an action-oriented approach
• You have an appetite for learning and self-development
• You value autonomy and have the self-management skills to operate dependably in a fully remote role
• You’re actively exploring how AI tools can improve your productivity and code quality
• You think beyond the code – you’re comfortable making architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and guiding technical direction for a project
• You’ve had your hands deep in complex, large scale web technology projects
• You’ve actively participated in mentoring and guiding less experienced developers to follow best practices through code reviews
• You’ve built complex custom WordPress plugins and themes from scratch
• You’ve worked extensively with PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• You’ve built custom Gutenberg blocks, Block Editor panels, and sidebar plugins to extend the editing experience
• You’ve used performance monitoring and error tracking tools to diagnose issues in production environments
• You have experience developing for enterprise WordPress hosting platforms such as WordPress VIP, including familiarity with their coding standards, deployment workflows, and code review requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

Be an Engaged Team Member

• Contribute to estimations for all tickets in the backlog and participate in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Review Meetings
• Adhere to Agile Scrum Methodologies and organizational processes
• Be a candid, respectful and supportive teammate and leader
• Work closely and collaboratively with others to develop solutions
• Shape technical direction in collaboration with teammates, balancing client needs, maintainability, and long-term scalability
  
  Champion Engineering Best Practices
• Review and write unit, integration, and regression tests when appropriate
• Write and maintain unit tests with PHPUnit, enforce static analysis with PHPStan, and build end-to-end tests with Playwright
• Conduct architectural peer reviews for code created by other engineers
• Set up build and test environments as well as deploying code
• Implement PHP and JavaScript Linting
• Setting up CI/CD workflows with Github Actions
• Implement standard Docker local development environments
• Monitor and optimize application performance using tools like Sentry for error tracking, New Relic for application logs and performance metrics, and Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals for frontend performance

Write Secure, Performant, Scalable Code

• Develop custom WordPress plugins for use at enterprise scale
• Object Oriented Programming
• Create custom React-based Blocks
• Utilize WordPress technologies like WP-CLI and REST API
• Build custom, performant SQL queries

• Package management tools like NPM and Composer
• Responsive interface development and interface extension using JavaScript
• Debugging across a wide range of browsers and devices
• Develop and maintain plugins and themes that meet WordPress VIP coding standards and deployment requirements

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