Senior WordPress Engineer – Freelance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Be an active team participant.

• Contribute to estimating all tickets in the backlog and engage in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Review Meetings.

• Follow Agile Scrum methodologies and the organization's processes.

• Act as a candid, respectful, and supportive teammate and leader.

• Collaborate closely with others to create effective solutions.

• Influence technical direction in partnership with teammates, balancing client needs, maintainability, and long-term scalability.

• Advocate for Engineering Best Practices.

• Review and create unit, integration, and regression tests when applicable.

• Develop and maintain unit tests with PHPUnit, enforce static analysis using PHPStan, and create end-to-end tests with Playwright.

• Conduct architectural peer reviews for code produced by other engineers.

• Establish build and test environments as well as deploy code.

• Implement PHP and JavaScript linting.

• Set up CI/CD workflows utilizing Github Actions.

• Implement standard Docker local development environments.

• Monitor and enhance 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 enterprise-level use.

• Practice Object-Oriented Programming.

• Create custom React-based blocks.

• Leverage WordPress technologies such as WP-CLI and REST API.

• Construct custom, efficient SQL queries.

• Utilize package management tools like NPM and Composer.

• Develop responsive interfaces and extend interfaces using JavaScript.

• Debug across a diverse array of browsers and devices.

• Develop and maintain plugins and themes that adhere to WordPress VIP coding standards and deployment requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• You have extensive experience with complex, large-scale web technology projects.

• You actively mentor and guide less experienced developers to adhere to best practices through code reviews.

• You have built intricate custom WordPress plugins and themes from the ground up.

• You possess extensive knowledge of PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• You have created custom Gutenberg blocks, Block Editor panels, and sidebar plugins to enhance the editing experience.

• You have utilized performance monitoring and error tracking tools to troubleshoot issues in production environments.

• You have experience developing for enterprise WordPress hosting platforms like WordPress VIP, including an understanding of their coding standards, deployment workflows, and code review practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Trust and support from your colleagues (we look out for one another and collaborate toward our shared goals and vision).

• The rewards of a highly collaborative culture (we’re a team, not just a working group).

• The advantages of remote work done right (flexible schedules, no commute, and more time for family and interests outside of work).

• The opportunity to play a vital role in helping XWP reach its full potential and make a significant impact for our clients, team members, and the open web.