Senior Software Engineer, Wordpress
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team at Clearlink. In this role, you'll take technical ownership of high-traffic WordPress properties, helping maintain and evolve their applications, integrations, and architecture. You'll design, develop, and optimize enterprise-scale WordPress applications - custom themes, plugins, APIs, and performance improvements - writing secure, testable, maintainable code using PHP and WordPress alongside modern technologies like TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Go. You'll keep consumer-facing websites performant, reliable, and secure, optimize Postgres and MySQL databases, build custom APIs and integrations, and apply solid DevOps practices to ship efficiently. Beyond the code, you'll provide day-to-day engineering leadership across your assigned properties - prioritizing technical improvements, leading design reviews, and reviewing peers' work - while staying hands-on and helping build a team culture grounded in open communication and honest feedback.
Responsibilities
- Develop high-quality software that aligns with both user needs and business goals.
- Take technical ownership of high-profile, high-traffic WordPress properties, helping manage, maintain, and evolve their applications, integrations, architecture, and supporting services.
- Design, develop, maintain, and optimize enterprise-scale WordPress applications