We are looking for an experienced Senior WordPress Engineer with strong expertise in WordPress development, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and WP VIP environments. The ideal candidate should have hands‑on experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining high‑traffic websites with a strong focus on performance, scalability, security, and code quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, customize, and maintain scalable WordPress websites and applications.
- Build complex content structures, custom fields, and flexible content solutions using Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).
- Develop and maintain websites within the WP VIP ecosystem, following its coding standards and best practices.
- Optimize WordPress websites for high traffic, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and improve website performance.
- Develop custom themes, plugins, Gutenberg blocks, and WordPress integrations.
- Write clean, maintainable, secure, and reusable code.
- Collaborate with designers, developers, QA engineers, and project managers.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor junior developers.
- Implement best practices for WordPress security, caching, database optimization, and deployment workflows.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in WordPress development.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), including complex field groups, Flexible Content, and custom content structures.
- Practical experience with WordPress VIP (WP VIP) and its coding standards, platform requirements, and development workflows.
- Proven experience managing and optimizing high‑traffic websites with large volumes of visitors and content.
- Strong knowledge of PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and jQuery.
- Experience developing custom WordPress themes and plugins.
- Strong understanding of WordPress hooks, filters, REST API, custom post types, and taxonomies.
- Experience with performance optimization, caching strategies, database queries, and Core Web Vitals.
- Familiarity with Git, code reviews, CI/CD, and development workflows.
- Strong debugging, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Gutenberg block development and modern WordPress development practices.
- Experience with enterprise‑level WordPress implementations.
- Familiarity with Redis, object caching, CDNs, and performance monitoring tools.
- Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience working with distributed teams and agile development processes.
What We Offer
- Opportunity to work on enterprise‑grade WordPress projects.
- A collaborative and technically challenging work environment.
- Opportunities to contribute to architecture, performance, and scalability decisions.
- Professional growth and opportunities to lead technical initiatives.