Senior WordPress Engineer – Freelance

🕒 May 12

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XWP

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🛍️ eCommerce

B2B • SaaS • eCommerce

XWP is a leading company that specializes in WordPress development, offering a range of services including web development, design and user experience, research and strategy, performance optimization, CMS migrations, and ongoing maintenance and support. By leveraging modern editorial tools and advanced performance techniques, XWP empowers enterprises to reduce technology overhead, improve site performance, and enhance editorial efficiency. The company partners with some of the world’s top brands to deliver innovative digital solutions that drive measurable results and ensure optimal online experiences.

📋 Description

• 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.