Senior WordPress Developer

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🕒 July 20

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iGaming IDOL

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2016

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

Gaming • Media • B2B

iGaming IDOL is a premium awards event and media project that recognizes individual excellence and innovation within the iGaming (online gambling) industry. Hosted in Malta and produced by NEXT. io, it runs gala award ceremonies, industry-focused summits, podcasts, and related content, with audited judging, sponsorships, and charitable initiatives. The project targets iGaming professionals, companies, and investors, emphasizing talent recognition, industry networking, and media coverage.

📋 Description

• Migrate legacy PHP-templated WordPress sites (like next.io) to modern block editor / Full Site Editing (FSE) architecture • Build and maintain custom child themes using Tailwind CSS (via WindPress or a custom build pipeline) alongside native WordPress blocks • Implement Secure Custom Fields (SCF) / Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) field groups and block bindings for dynamic, editor-friendly content • Build native API integrations to pull external data into WordPress front-ends (e.g., event platforms, CRM forms, market/financial data feeds) without relying on embedded iframes/widgets • Maintain and troubleshoot Cloudflare configuration (APO, Rocket Loader, Zaraz tag manager) and its interaction with caching and script execution • Manage and harden hosting (DigitalOcean droplets, Apache/Nginx, SSL/TLS via Cloudflare Origin Certificates, backups, security) • Improve Core Web Vitals and site performance (asset loading, caching strategy, image optimization, render-blocking script management) • Maintain a safe deployment workflow: staging-first, version-controlled theme code, manual review before production changes • Document technical decisions clearly enough, even for a non-developer to follow and understand.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years professional WordPress development, including custom theme building (not just page-builder configuration) • Strong PHP: comfortable reading/writing functions.php, custom hooks/filters, template hierarchy, and WP REST API • Hands-on experience with block editor/FSE development (block themes, theme.json, block patterns, block bindings) • Experience with ACF/SCF (field groups, Local JSON, block field bindings) • Practical experience integrating Tailwind CSS into WordPress (via a compiler plugin like WindPress, or a custom build process) • Experience consuming third-party REST/GraphQL APIs server-side or client-side and rendering data natively in WordPress (not just embedding iframes/widgets) • Working knowledge of Cloudflare (caching, APO, a tag manager like Zaraz or GTM, and how aggressive caching/script optimization can break tracking or JS) • Linux server administration: Apache or Nginx, SSL/TLS setup, basic server security and backups • Understanding of Core Web Vitals and how theme/plugin choices affect them • Git-based version control workflow with staging → production discipline • Comfortable using AI coding tools (Claude, etc.) to accelerate work, while still being able to independently review, debug, and be accountable for that code.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Remote work options