Senior WordPress Developer

• Build and maintain custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks across high-traffic, multilingual WordPress sites
• Develop and maintain libraries, block collections, Composer packages, and tooling that accelerate delivery across teams
• Refactor legacy code, optimize queries and caching, and improve Core Web Vitals metrics
• Build and consume REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems
• Participate in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering standards initiatives
• Collaborate with product, marketing, SEO, content, and QA teams on features and site improvements
• Document technical decisions and contribute to engineering best practices
• Ensure software development best practices and timely product delivery

• 5+ years of WordPress development experience
• Strong Object-Oriented PHP (8.x) skills
• Experience with namespaces, PSR standards, and Composer
• Deep knowledge of WordPress Core APIs
• Strong understanding of hooks, custom post types, taxonomies, WP_Query, and metadata APIs
• Experience with ACF Pro and native custom fields
• Solid production experience building Gutenberg blocks
• React and JSX development experience
• Experience with block.json and @wordpress/scripts
• Strong modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience with Webpack or Vite
• Modern CSS development (Sass, PostCSS)
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
• Experience creating custom WordPress REST endpoints
• Strong understanding of WordPress security best practices
• Experience with sanitization, escaping, nonces, and user capabilities
• WordPress performance optimization expertise
• Object caching and query optimization experience
• Comfortable with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in AI-assisted development environments (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)
• Good written and spoken English