Senior WordPress Developer

🔥 6 hours ago

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

👻 Ghost score 22%

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Huzzle.com

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51 - 200 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.8M Pre Seed Round - Huzzle on 2024-04

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

Huzzle. com is an AI-native hiring platform that connects companies with pre-vetted, remote talent—especially sales and go-to-market roles—through a streamlined sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and payroll workflow. The platform uses AI-driven candidate search and automated interviews (with expert review) to surface high-quality candidates quickly, then handles contracts, onboarding, and cross-border payroll and compliance so employers can hire globally in days. It also offers a candidate-facing experience that matches applicants to remote roles after a single 20-minute interview and provides a curated talent marketplace.

📋 Description

• Build and customize WordPress themes, website layouts, templates, and styles using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. • Develop custom WordPress plugins, extensions, and functionality for specific business and website requirements. • Create responsive, user-friendly interfaces for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. • Work with PHP, WordPress core functionality, databases, APIs, and server-side logic. • Improve Core Web Vitals, page-loading speeds, caching, database performance, and overall website efficiency. • Implement technical and on-page SEO best practices. • Conduct security checks and audits; manage WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates; troubleshoot bugs; and maintain regular backups. • Identify and resolve compatibility issues, broken functionality, performance bottlenecks, and other technical problems. • Test websites and new functionality across browsers and devices before deployment. • Maintain existing WordPress websites while improving functionality, performance, security, and user experience. • Own WordPress projects end-to-end in collaboration with the growing team.

🎯 Requirements

• 4–5+ years of professional WordPress development experience. • Strong knowledge of WordPress architecture, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. • Proven experience building and customizing WordPress themes from scratch. • Hands-on experience developing or modifying custom WordPress plugins. • Strong understanding of MySQL/database management and back-end development. • Experience with responsive and mobile-first web development. • Strong understanding of WordPress performance optimization, caching, and Core Web Vitals. • Knowledge of technical SEO and SEO-friendly development practices. • Experience implementing WordPress security best practices, updates, backups, and maintenance procedures. • Familiarity with APIs and third-party integrations. • Ability to diagnose and resolve complex WordPress issues independently. • Strong attention to detail and commitment to clean, maintainable code. • Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to work effectively and independently in a remote environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience and qualifications. • Fully remote opportunity with an international company. • Work on meaningful WordPress development projects with real ownership and impact. • Join a collaborative, high-performing team with opportunities to grow your technical expertise. • Long-term career growth and professional development opportunities.