Senior WordPress Developer - Plugins & Gutenberg - Remote

Andersen; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Private health insurance

Training portal

Job summary

Andersen is seeking a skilled WordPress Developer to build and enhance digital solutions across industries. You will work on multilingual sites, Gutenberg blocks, and REST APIs, ensuring security and performance. The role supports remote, office, or hybrid options in a dynamic, international environment.

Join a team delivering innovative WP-powered solutions, collaborate with product, marketing, and content teams, and grow professionally through mentoring and training programs.

Qualifications

• 3.5+ years WordPress development in OO PHP.
• Deep WP core API knowledge: hooks, CPTs, taxonomies, meta, ACF.
• Gutenberg blocks with React, JSX, block.json, and @wordpress/scripts.
• Strong modern JS (ES6+), build tooling (webpack/Vite) and modern CSS (Sass or PostCSS; Tailwind is a plus).
• RESTful API design, including custom WP REST endpoints.
• Solid grasp of WordPress security and performance (caching, queries).
• Git-based workflows, PRs, CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable with AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Copilot).
• English level – Intermediate+.

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks across multilingual WordPress sites.
• Developing and maintaining libraries, block collections, Composer packages and tooling that speed delivery.
• Owning quality and performance: refactor legacy code, optimize queries and caching, and hit Core Web Vitals targets.
• Building and consuming REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems.
• Participating in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering standards.
• Working with product, marketing, SEO, and content teams on new features and site improvements.
• Ensuring software development best practices and timeliness of product delivery.

Skills

WordPress

PHP 8.x

WP REST API

Gutenberg blocks

React

ES6+ JavaScript

Webpack/Vite

Tailwind CSS

WP Security

Git workflows

CI/CD

AI-assisted coding

English (Intermediate+)

Tools

Bedrock

Composer

WP CLI

PHPUnit

Playwright

PHPCS/WPCS

Timber/Twig

WPGraphQL

Job description

Andersen is seeking a skilled WordPress Developer to build and enhance digital solutions across industries. You will work on multilingual sites, Gutenberg blocks, and REST APIs, ensuring security and performance. The role supports remote, office, or hybrid options in a dynamic, international environment.

Join a team delivering innovative WP-powered solutions, collaborate with product, marketing, and content teams, and grow professionally through mentoring and training programs.