WordPress Engineering Lead — Global Site & Scale

Seon; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SEON is seeking a WordPress Developer to own SEON's global website, build custom Gutenberg blocks, and manage deployment, security and performance. You will collaborate with Website Manager, Marketing, Design and SEO to translate business needs into robust, scalable web solutions.

The role offers significant ownership, a fast-paced environment and opportunities to drive platform improvements across multilingual locales (EN, ES, PT-BR) and integrations.

Qualifications

• Strong WordPress engineering experience, with 5+ years in a professional development environment and ownership of complex/multisite implementations.
• Excellent PHP and WordPress knowledge, including internals, hooks, APIs, custom themes and plugins.
• Modern front-end and Gutenberg expertise, with JavaScript (ES6+), React, HTML5 and CSS/SCSS; building reusable blocks and accessible templates.
• Development workflow and testing experience with Git, staging environments, automated builds, CI/CD and structured deployments.
• Understanding of testing types and safe release processes; performance, security and accessibility focus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain custom Gutenberg blocks, patterns and page templates; extend the block editor for scalable content.
• Own the theme and plugin codebase: maintenance, refactoring, documentation and reducing technical debt.
• Own the build pipeline and releases: Git workflow, staging, deployments to WP Engine, and rollback when needed.
• Own site security: hardening, vulnerability monitoring, updates, and incident response.
• Own site performance: Core Web Vitals, edge caching and page speed.
• Plan platform upgrades (WordPress core, PHP, MySQL) with broad compatibility testing across multisite.
• Ensure changes work across EN, ES, PT-BR locales including multilingual hreflang behavior.
• Maintain site integrations (forms, CRM, analytics, tag management, cookie consent).
• Implement technical SEO and accessibility with the SEO team (schema, crawlability, WCAG 2.2 AA).
• Set and uphold engineering standards: code review, conventions, monitoring, backups, recovery testing.
• Scope and estimate requests; provide technical direction to agencies/freelancers.
• Run cross-browser/device testing with BrowserStack and include visual regression checks.

Skills

WordPress

PHP

JavaScript

React

Gutenberg

WP-CLI

Multisite

CI/CD

SEO

Tools

Git

WP Engine

Google Tag Manager

HubSpot

Job description

SEON is seeking a WordPress Developer to own SEON's global website, build custom Gutenberg blocks, and manage deployment, security and performance. You will collaborate with Website Manager, Marketing, Design and SEO to translate business needs into robust, scalable web solutions.

The role offers significant ownership, a fast-paced environment and opportunities to drive platform improvements across multilingual locales (EN, ES, PT-BR) and integrations.