Senior WordPress Engineer - Headless Platform (Remote)

La Fosse; España; A distancia; EUR 77.000 - 106.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

La Fosse Recruitment is helping an industry-leading media and publishing organisation to hire a Senior WordPress Engineer. You will build enterprise WordPress platforms, headless architectures with REST APIs, and modern frontend tooling using React and TypeScript.

Based fully remotely with UK working-hours overlap, you will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and editorial teams to deliver scalable publishing solutions for millions of readers.

Formación

• Strong commercial experience developing enterprise WordPress applications and platforms.
• Expert PHP development skills, including deep knowledge of WordPress core, hooks, APIs and internals.
• Proven experience developing custom Gutenberg blocks using React and TypeScript.
• Experience building custom WordPress plugins rather than relying primarily on themes or page builders.
• Strong understanding of headless WordPress architecture and REST API development.
• Experience with WordPress multisite or multi-tenant architecture.
• Knowledge of performance optimisation, caching, security and scalability.
• Experience with automated testing, particularly PHPUnit.
• Familiarity with Composer and modern PHP development practices.
• Strong understanding of SOLID principles and maintainable software architecture.
• Experience working collaboratively through code reviews and CI/CD processes.
• WordPress VIP or similar enterprise WordPress hosting environments.
• Experience building publishing platforms, editorial tools or content management solutions.
• Working with high-traffic websites serving millions of users.
• Content syndication and third-party editorial integrations.
• Experience with CircleCI.
• Previous involvement in platform migrations or consolidating multiple websites.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop and maintain custom WordPress plugins, platform functionality and integrations.
• Build and enhance custom Gutenberg blocks using React and TypeScript.
• Develop and maintain headless WordPress architecture, including REST APIs and structured content models.
• Support a multi-tenant WordPress environment serving multiple brands and digital properties.
• Improve platform performance, scalability, caching and security.
• Build integrations with editorial, content planning and syndication systems.
• Support the migration and consolidation of websites onto shared enterprise infrastructure.
• Write automated tests, conduct code reviews and maintain high engineering standards.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers and editorial stakeholders to deliver new functionality.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to architectural and technical decisions.

Conocimientos

WordPress enterprise

PHP

Gutenberg blocks (React/TS)

WordPress multisite

Performance optimization

Automated testing ( PHPUnit)

Composer / modern PHP

SOLID principles

CI/CD

Code reviews

AI-assisted tools

Herramientas

CircleCI

PHPUnit

Composer

Git

Descripción del empleo

La Fosse Recruitment is helping an industry-leading media and publishing organisation to hire a Senior WordPress Engineer. You will build enterprise WordPress platforms, headless architectures with REST APIs, and modern frontend tooling using React and TypeScript.

Based fully remotely with UK working-hours overlap, you will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and editorial teams to deliver scalable publishing solutions for millions of readers.