1189 Senior WordPress Developer

Intetics Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Intetics Inc. is seeking a Senior WordPress Developer to join our engineering team. You will build custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks for high-traffic multilingual sites, and ensure performance and security at scale.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of WordPress development, strong PHP (8.x) with OOP, Composer, WP Core APIs, REST APIs, modern JavaScript, and experience with React, Webpack/Vite, and CI/CD. You will collaborate across product, marketing, and QA to deliver quality code.

Qualifications

5+ years of WordPress development experience.
Strong Object-Oriented PHP (8.x) skills.
Experience with namespaces, PSR standards, and Composer.
Deep knowledge of WordPress Core APIs and WP REST API.
Solid React/JS development and modern JavaScript capabilities.
Experience building Gutenberg blocks and block.json workflows.
Understanding of security, caching, and core web vitals optimization.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks for multilingual WordPress sites.
Develop libraries, block collections, and tooling to accelerate delivery.
Own quality and performance: refactor, optimize queries, and improve Core Web Vitals.
Build and consume REST APIs and integrations with internal/third-party systems.
Participate in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering standards.
Collaborate with product, marketing, SEO, content, and QA teams on features.

Skills

WordPress dev

PHP OOP

Composer

WP Core APIs

REST APIs

JS ES6+

React

Webpack/Vite

CSS/Sass

Git/CI/CD

REST endpoints

Security best practices

Caching

Code reviews

Tools

ACF Pro

WP CLI

Job description

Intetics Inc., a leading American technology company specializing in custom software application development, distributed professional teams creation, software product quality assessment, and “all-things-digital” solutions, is looking for a Senior WordPress Developer to join its innovative team.

Project Responsibilities

Build and maintain custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks across a portfolio of high-traffic, multilingual WordPress sites
Develop and maintain libraries, block collections, Composer packages, and tooling that accelerate delivery across teams
Own quality and performance: refactor legacy code, optimize queries and caching, and improve Core Web Vitals metrics
Build and consume REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems
Take part in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering standards initiatives
Collaborate with product, marketing, SEO, content, and QA teams on new features and site improvements
Document technical decisions and contribute to engineering best practices
Ensure software development best practices and timely product delivery

Candidate’s Portrait

We’re looking for a Senior WordPress Developer who treats WordPress as a modern engineering platform rather than a traditional CMS. You’ll help build and scale high-traffic multilingual web platforms while maintaining high standards of performance, security, scalability, and code quality. The ideal candidate cares about architecture as much as feature delivery and writes code that other developers are happy to maintain.

Must-haves:

5+ years of WordPress development experience
Strong Object-Oriented PHP (8.x) skills
Experience with namespaces, PSR standards, and Composer
Deep knowledge of WordPress Core APIs
Strong understanding of hooks, custom post types, taxonomies, WP_Query, and metadata APIs
Experience with ACF Pro and native custom fields
Solid production experience building Gutenberg blocks
React and JSX development experience
Experience with block.json and @wordpress/scripts
Strong modern JavaScript (ES6+)
Experience with Webpack or Vite
Modern CSS development (Sass, PostCSS)
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
Experience creating custom WordPress REST endpoints
Strong understanding of WordPress security best practices
Experience with sanitization, escaping, nonces, and user capabilities
WordPress performance optimization expertise
Object caching and query optimization experience
Comfortable with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines
Experience working in AI-assisted development environments (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)
Good written and spoken English