Senior WordPress Engineer (Freelance)
What You've Done
- 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
What You'll Do at XWP
- 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
- Packaging 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
Success
- Delivery of quality code, on time, and as estimated
- Collaborative and effective communication across global time zones and cultures
- Proactive approach to learning, growth, and sharing
- Having the trust and confidence of your teammates
- Leading by example and treating others with respect
- Thoughtful adoption of AI tools that demonstrably improves code quality, security, and overall quality of work
Payscale & Benefits
- $35 to $60 USD per hour
- Engineering
- Remote
Company Information
XWP is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. We’re proud of the high levels of inclusion that our distributed team reports and we work hard to support each individual doing their best work together at XWP.
XWP has collaborated on some of the most ambitious and successful WordPress projects and has partnered with the likes of Google, Vox Media, News Corp, and Penske Media Corporation (PMC) to bring richer technologies and delightful user experiences to the open web.
Our team of 50+ experts (from 20+ countries and five continents) enjoy challenging work, service-focused and collaborative teammates, and many opportunities to grow and learn. We have a passion and enthusiasm for what we do and a sincere care for each other and our clients.