WordPress Specialist (Arabic)

About The Role

GTECH builds and maintains a large portfolio of WordPress websites for brands across the Middle East. We're looking for a hands-on WordPress Specialist who can own a website from design to front-end to back-end, turning approved designs into pixel-accurate, responsive WordPress builds, and extending them with custom functionality where needed. Because so much of our work targets the Middle East market, this role requires a native Arabic speaker who can read and write Arabic, you'll be building and testing right-to-left (RTL) layouts, handling Arabic typography, and making sure bilingual (Arabic/English) sites look and read correctly. This is a delivery-focused developer role. You'll work closely with our designers, project managers, and SEO/marketing team to ship clean, fast, secure WordPress sites.

Responsibilities

• Convert approved designs (Figma / Adobe XD / PSD) into responsive, pixel-accurate WordPress themes
• Build and customize WordPress themes and child themes, front-end (HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, JavaScript) and back-end (PHP, WordPress APIs)
• Develop custom functionality: custom post types, taxonomies, and fields using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields); build or extend custom plugins
• Build and maintain Arabic / RTL and bilingual sites, correct RTL layouts, Arabic fonts/typography, and multilingual setups (e.g. WPML / Polylang)
• Work with page builders where relevant (Elementor, Gutenberg / block editor) and know when to build custom instead
• Optimize sites for speed, Core Web Vitals, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility
• Apply WordPress security best practices; keep core, themes, and plugins updated and safe
• Handle site migrations, staging-to-live deployments, backups, and basic hosting/DNS tasks
• Debug and resolve theme, plugin, and performance issues across the existing site portfolio
• Use Git for version control and collaborate with the team on a shared workflow
• Cook with designers, project managers, and the SEO team so builds are on-brief, on-time, and SEO-friendly

Requirements

• 3-5 years of hands-on WordPress development experience, ideally in an agency or multi-site environment
• Native Arabic (read & write) with the ability to build and QA Arabic/RTL and bilingual websites; strong English for team communication
• Strong front-end skills: HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, JavaScript (and jQuery), responsive design
• Strong WordPress back-end skills: PHP, MySQL, WordPress theme & plugin APIs, hooks/filters
• Hands-on experience with ACF, custom post types, and custom fields
• Experience taking a design file and producing a clean, faithful, responsive WordPress build
• Familiarity with WooCommerce
• Familiarity with a broader stack (Node/React or Laravel), useful, but this is a WordPress-first role
• Experience with CI/CD or automated deployment tools

Nice to Have

• Multilingual plugin experience (WPML, Polylang)
• Basic on-page SEO awareness (clean markup, schema, page speed)
• Experience with headless WordPress or REST API / custom API work