Lead WordPress Engineer — Remote-First, Global Platform

ADLIB Recruitment | B Corp™; West of England, Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 65.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

25 days holiday

Private medical & life insurance

Employee assistance programme

Pension

Training budget & personal development

Descripción de la vacante

ADLIB Recruitment | B Corp™ is seeking a Lead WordPress Engineer to own a large multi-site estate and guide a major platform build. You will lead a team, set standards, and work with product, project and client teams on delivery.

You will balance hands‑on development with leadership, collaborating closely with DevOps on AWS/Kubernetes hosting and ensuring secure, scalable performance for a global music client.

Formación

• Five+ years of WordPress development with core PHP knowledge.
• Experience leading engineers and acting as technical client contact.
• Proven architecture/management of large WordPress Multisite networks or live estates.
• Strong custom theme, Gutenberg, and plugin development ownership.
• Hands-on WP-CLI, Composer, and Git deployment experience.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development tools and code review.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the WordPress team, own codebase, delivery and technical decisions.
• Define roadmap and scope for a next‑gen platform with product/project teams.
• Guide build/delivery for a global client, oversee plugin/theme/library assets.
• Collaborate with DevOps on AWS/Kubernetes hosting and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor engineers and set quality, security and performance standards.

Conocimientos

WordPress development

Team leadership

Architecture of WordPress Multisite

PHP

Performance optimization

Herramientas

WP-CLI

Composer

Git

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CDN

Caching

Descripción del empleo

ADLIB Recruitment | B Corp™ is seeking a Lead WordPress Engineer to own a large multi-site estate and guide a major platform build. You will lead a team, set standards, and work with product, project and client teams on delivery.

You will balance hands‑on development with leadership, collaborating closely with DevOps on AWS/Kubernetes hosting and ensuring secure, scalable performance for a global music client.