Senior WordPress Engineer – Freelance
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Senior WordPress Engineer developing custom plugins and themes for enterprise scale at XWP. Collaborating with teams on ambitious WordPress projects and delivering exceptional software.
Responsibilities:
- 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
- Package 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.
Requirements:
- 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.
Benefits:
- Trust and support from your colleagues (we look out for each other and work together towards our shared goals and vision)
- The rewards of a highly collaborative culture (we’re a team, not a working group)
- The joys of remote work done right (schedule flexibility, skip the commute, and more time for family and interests outside of work)
- The chance to play an important part in helping XWP achieve its full potential and make a meaningful difference for our clients, team members and the open web.
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