Web | WordPress and Next.js Developer

UDX Inc.; Durham, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

UDX Inc. is seeking a contract WordPress and Next.js Developer to ship production sites from design to Kubernetes deployment, then maintain them across multiple clients. You will focus on theme and plugin development, headless front ends, and integrations while working in a distributed team.

The role is remote with overlap for US Eastern hours, supporting a platform that runs on Kubernetes across cloud providers. Join a SDVOSB with a hands-on founder-led culture and flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Four+ years building WordPress professionally, including custom themes and plugins in modern PHP.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript; production experience with Next.js or React and server-side rendering.
• Tailwind CSS and responsive layout that matches a design file to the pixel.
• Familiarity with Git workflows, pull requests, CI checks and containerized development; Kubernetes not required.
• Experience with WooCommerce, event or ticketing integrations, or CRM/marketing integrations.
• Written English that clients can read in issue threads and overlap with US Eastern hours.

Responsibilities

• Build WordPress sites from design: themes, block patterns, custom post types, Tailwind, and required plugins.
• Build headless and hybrid front ends in Next.js/React against WordPress or Strapi, with SSR and CDN caching.
• Launch sites on Rabbit: repo setup, environment branches, CloudFront and cert configuration, go-live checklists, post-launch fixes.
• Maintain a portfolio of live sites: WordPress core/plugin updates, performance enhancements, editorial requests, and weekly changes.
• Integrate client services: HubSpot forms/workflows, ticketing platforms, server-side analytics APIs, email deliverability.
• Write and maintain Ghost Inspector and end-to-end test suites to prevent checkout or form breakages.

Skills

WordPress development

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Tailwind CSS

Git workflows

SSR experience

Tools

WooCommerce

Job description

ENGINEERING CAREERS

Web | WordPress and Next.js Developer

UDX is looking for a web developer who can ship a production WordPress or Next.js site from a design file to a Kubernetes deployment, and keep a dozen of them running after launch.

WordPress and Next.js Developer

Most of what UDX bills is websites that matter to the business that owns them: a museum's gala and ticketing site, a live music venue launching in a new city, a beverage group's brand sites and ordering portal, a promoter's event calendar that sells out in minutes. You will build and maintain those.

Every site runs on Rabbit, our Kubernetes delivery platform, which means every branch gets an environment, every deploy is a merged pull request, and the infrastructure is already handled. Your focus is the site itself: theme, templates, custom plugins, headless front ends, performance, and the integrations that make the site useful.

This is a contract role, remote, with overlap for US Eastern hours.

UDX is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) founded in 2011 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, with a distributed engineering team. We build and run cloud infrastructure and web platforms for organizations that cannot afford downtime: cultural institutions, live event promoters, consumer brands, real estate and professional certification bodies. Our delivery platform, Rabbit, turns a Git repository into a fully provisioned, monitored, secured environment on Kubernetes across GCP, AWS and Azure. We also ship Kubernetes operators to the Azure Marketplace.

Every hour we work maps to a GitHub issue. Every change is a pull request. Every day of work leaves a comment. That is how we bill, how we prove work to clients, and how we know what happened six months later.

What you'll do

• Build WordPress sites from design: custom themes, block patterns, custom post types, Tailwind, and the plugins a client actually needs.
• Build headless and hybrid front ends in Next.js and React against WordPress or Strapi, with server-side rendering and CDN caching that survives real traffic.
• Launch sites on Rabbit: repository setup, branch environments, CloudFront and certificate configuration, go-live checklists, and the post-launch fixes.
• Maintain a portfolio of live sites: WordPress core and plugin updates, performance regressions, editorial requests, and the small changes that arrive every week.
• Integrate the services clients depend on: HubSpot forms and workflows, ticketing platforms, server-side Google Tag Manager, Meta and Google conversion APIs, email deliverability.
• Write and maintain Ghost Inspector and end-to-end test suites so releases do not break checkout or forms.
• Track every task to a GitHub issue and leave a comment and a PR link for every day worked.

What you'll need

• Four or more years building WordPress professionally, including custom theme and plugin development in modern PHP.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript; production experience with Next.js or React and server-side rendering.
• Tailwind CSS and responsive layout work that matches a design file to the pixel.
• Comfort with Git workflows, pull requests, CI checks and containerized development. You do not need to run Kubernetes, but you need to work inside a platform that does.
• Experience with WooCommerce, event or ticketing integrations, or CRM and marketing integrations.
• Written English that clients can read in issue threads.
• Overlap with US Eastern hours.

What we offer

• Contract engagement, hourly, with a steady multi-client backlog.
• Infrastructure handled by the platform, so you spend your time on the site, not the server.
• Clients whose sites are central to their revenue, which means your work gets used and noticed.
• Direct access to the founders. No layers, no ticket queue between you and the decision.
• Remote, flexible hours outside the US Eastern overlap.

Engagement

Specialization WordPress theme and plugin development, Next.js and React front ends, site launches Commitment 20 to 40 hours a week; the backlog is steady across several clients Engagement Contract, hourly, invoiced monthly against GitHub issues Work setup Remote Overlap At least 4 hours a day inside US Eastern business hours Access Repository access on day one; production deploys go through pull requests and the platform Location No restriction Language English, written and spoken; you will write in client repositories Start As soon as the references clear How we work Issue per task, pull request per change, comment per day