WordPress Engineer

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🕒 April 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

👻 Ghost score 56%

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The Publisher Desk

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

The Publisher Desk is a growth and monetization partner for independent digital publishers, offering managed services, ad operations expertise, and an enterprise platform (PubDesk Operator) to optimize revenue, audience development, and ad performance. Founded by industry veterans, it provides tailored strategies, publisher dashboards, newsletters, and partnerships that connect publishers with advertisers and sports communities, combining media expertise with technology to scale brands and improve monetization.

📋 Description

• Code new WordPress themes, page templates, and plugins from scratch and modify existing themes and plugins • Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules including dynamic content and personalization features • Integrate wide range of WordPress plugins, API calls and third party apps and forms, such as Eloqua • Manage back-end services and interchange of data between server and user, including server-side logic and database integration • Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from front-end • Provide front-end development of digital marketing communications, including full websites and micro-sites, landing pages, emails, and other initiatives • Develop, test and troubleshoot across multiple browsers, platforms and devices, including tablets and smartphones, to support a consistent and positive customer experience • Provide guidance on SEO best practices for site development • Research and recommend new technologies and tools for effective integration across various platforms

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field • 3+ years of experience as a web developer • Experience creating and integrating custom WordPress plugins, themes, working with WordPress hooks and filters • Experience creating websites for a mobile-first strategy • Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks • Strong knowledge of common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions • Experience with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds • Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, and responsive frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap) • Experience with online usability, accessibility, and web analytics • Experience with development languages (Java or Python) • Experience integrating or working with ad serving technologies (prebid, DFPP) • Experience with software versioning and revision control systems (Subversion or Git)