WordPress engineer

BetterEngineer; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 1,247,000 - 2,078,000; Full time

Job summary

BetterEngineer, a US team, seeks a senior engineer to work on WordPress themes and plugins from Mexico. You will review PHP, follow existing site hooks, and draft template or plugin functions with AI tools, then validate on staging before going live. You join a US-aligned team, working US hours remotely.

Applicants should have 5+ years in software engineering, strong English, and proven production experience with WordPress. This is a full-time remote role supporting US product teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a software engineer
• Advanced English
• Experience shipping WordPress themes or plugins to production

Responsibilities

• Change WordPress themes and plugins on the site
• Put PHP through review
• Follow the hooks the site already uses
• Use AI tools to draft a template or a plugin function, then review it on staging before it goes live
• Try the change on a staging site before production
• Do not edit production as the first step

Skills

WordPress themes

WordPress plugins

PHP

MySQL

Staging environment

AI tooling

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AI tools

Job description

WordPress themes and plugins for a US team, with PHP they can review.

You change WordPress themes and plugins for a US team. PHP goes through review. You try the change on a staging site before it reaches production.

What you do on the team

On a placement, this is the work the US team expects.

• Change themes and plugins on the WordPress site
• Put PHP through review
• Follow the hooks the site already uses
• Use AI tools to draft a template or a plugin function, then review it on staging before it goes live
• Try the change on a staging site before production
• Do not edit production as the first step

The stack

• WordPress
• PHP
• The theme and the hooks the site uses
• Custom fields, if the site uses them
• MySQL
• A staging site

What we look for

• WordPress themes or plugins in production
• PHP, and the hooks the site already uses
• A staging site, not edits only on production
• 5 or more years as a software engineer

How we check

We review work you have shipped. A keyword on a resume is not enough. You need advanced or fluent English. You will be in standups, code reviews, and Slack with a US team. You use AI tools to draft a template or a plugin function, then you review it on staging before it goes live. Every engineer is assessed on the four-level AI fluency scale before a client meets them. See the four levels .

How a placement runs

You join the client team and work in their repo, their standups, and their code reviews. You work US business hours from Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, or Uruguay. The placement is almost always a full-time contract. You are paid the same amount every month in US dollars. The monthly invoice is for bookkeeping. Candidates never pay to apply or to join. How joining works .

BetterEngineer introduces senior engineers in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay to US product teams. You work in the client repo. Candidates never pay anything.

How joining works

Create a profile. We review your technical work, your English, and your AI fluency, then introduce you when a client asks for your skill.