Senior WordPress Engineer: Build Scalable, High-Traffic CMS

News Corporation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Gym discounts

Bikes for Work

Harper Collins discount

Maternity/Paternity leave

Wellbeing benefits

Pension scheme

Training & LinkedIn Learning

25 days holiday

Job summary

News Corporation's The Sun is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the development of its WordPress-based digital publishing platform. You will be a key part of the Sun Content team, enhancing editorial tools, building robust integrations, and ensuring high performance for millions of readers.

In London on a hybrid basis, you will develop themes and plugins, implement SSO with Okta, integrate Slack workflows, optimise caching, migrate feeds, and maintain code quality with PHPUnit and

Qualifications

• Expert proficiency in PHP and WordPress core/internals to build scalable enterprise solutions.
• Deep experience with Composer for dependency management, PHPUnit for testing, and Gutenberg block development.
• Proven track record of integrating third-party APIs (Slack, Okta, REST APIs).
• Knowledge of caching mechanisms (Varnish, CDN), authentication protocols (SAML, SSO).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain complex WordPress themes and plugins for high-traffic sites, including The Sun.
• Build tools to streamline newsroom operations, such as integrating Slack for publishing workflows and automated author attribution.
• Implement and manage secure authentication systems, including Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions using Okta and SAML across different digital editions.
• Optimise application performance through advanced caching strategies, creating custom MU-plugins to manage Cache-Control headers for CDNs and browsers.
• Engineer and migrate syndication feeds, such as custom RSS templates for Google Newsstand and Tabloid integration.
• Maintain exceptional code quality through PHPUnit testing, dependency management via Composer.

Skills

PHP

WordPress

Composer

PHPUnit

Gutenberg

REST APIs

Tools

Okta

SAML

Slack

Varnish

CDN

Job description

News Corporation's The Sun is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the development of its WordPress-based digital publishing platform. You will be a key part of the Sun Content team, enhancing editorial tools, building robust integrations, and ensuring high performance for millions of readers.

In London on a hybrid basis, you will develop themes and plugins, implement SSO with Okta, integrate Slack workflows, optimise caching, migrate feeds, and maintain code quality with PHPUnit and