Freelance Senior Web Engineer — Remote WordPress Expert

Human Made; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Potential for permanent role

Work with top WordPress engineers

Agency experience

Job summary

Human Made is seeking a Senior Web Engineer freelancer to own project work, architect WordPress-based systems, and mentor teammates. You’ll work autonomously on complex subsystems, ensuring performance and security while collaborating with the broader asynchronous team.

You should be proficient in PHP and JavaScript, deeply knowledgeable about WordPress internals and ecosystem, and comfortable communicating technical concepts in English across a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Strong autonomy and ability to deliver to tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and spoken English for remote collaboration.
• Expertise in PHP and JavaScript within a WordPress context.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership at a project level and influence connected work.
• Architect projects and complex subsystems.
• Review and improve tooling, code, and communication.
• Assess architecture options with limited information.
• Write technical documentation for architecture decisions.
• Support other developers and assist on projects.

Skills

JavaScript

PHP

WordPress

RESTful APIs

MySQL

Git

HTML5 & CSS

Debugging

Performance

Security

Architect subsystems

Tools

Debugging tools

WordPress ecosystem

Job description

Human Made is seeking a Senior Web Engineer freelancer to own project work, architect WordPress-based systems, and mentor teammates. You’ll work autonomously on complex subsystems, ensuring performance and security while collaborating with the broader asynchronous team.

You should be proficient in PHP and JavaScript, deeply knowledgeable about WordPress internals and ecosystem, and comfortable communicating technical concepts in English across a distributed team.