Evolving Web

WordPress Architect

Evolving Web

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Montreal • Canada

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Tech Stack

DockerDrupalJavaScriptPHPSQLWebpackWordPress

About the role

  • **Here’s what we will expect from you on a day-to-day basis**
  • - Work with a team of developers, designers, and project managers
  • - Scope and architect technical solutions with internal and client teams
  • - Create documentation for internal use, as well as for clients, such as technical specifications and scope documents
  • - Advise and manage teams to produce measurable results
  • - Take ownership of project success, including meeting requirements, timelines and budgets (with project managers)

Requirements

  • **What kind of skill set do you need to be successful in your role within the Evolving community?**
  • - More than 5 years of WordPress development experience, as well as technical leadership experience
  • - Modern WordPress expertise - the block editor and block themes. If you’re primarily experienced with third-party page builders or custom field plugins, this role may not be for you.
  • - Experience with enterprise-level projects
  • - Experience in architecting large-scale solutions according to technical requirements
  • - Ability to maintain a high-level view of projects and use your understanding of contexts, the scope, and development tasks to successfully deliver solutions
  • - Actively involved in the WordPress community; core contributions, plugin developer, documentation, contributing at WordCamps/Meetups, etc.
  • - Curious and keeping up-to-date with the latest changes in the ecosystem, especially the Gutenberg project, and a willingness to actively share.
  • - Possess a wide range of technical experience, such as (but not necessarily all of) the following: a deep knowledge of core web technologies (HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, caching layers, SQL), NPM, Webpack, Docker, DevOps, Gitlab CI/CD, managed hosts such as Pantheon or WP VIP
  • - Expertise in performance optimization techniques, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks, and architecting highly scalable WordPress solutions for enterprise-level traffic and data
  • - Knowledge of security best practices in web application development, particularly within WordPress, and experience in designing secure architectural solutions
  • - Experience in defining and leading quality assurance processes, including automated testing strategies and test-driven development (TDD), is a plus.
  • - Proven experience working with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams on pre-sales scoping and project estimation, and in defining and refining the best solutions
  • - Ability to prepare and conduct technical workshops to refine the scope of projects
  • - Ability to prioritize, multitask, and work on different projects concurrently
  • - Ability to train technical and non-technical teams on solutions
  • - Ability to create and present reports that communicate the details of a solution
  • - Can do PHP development when necessary; Experience in Drupal development is a bonus.
  • - Experience with advising and managing teams of developers and designers to achieve measurable results
  • - Experience using project management tools like Redmine or JIRA
  • - Strong communication skills in both French and English. However, if you feel that this position is for you and you're not strong in both languages, go ahead and apply.
Benefits
  • **What we offer**
  • - **Impact **- Work on projects for prestigious organizations that impact the lives of tens of thousands of users every day
  • - **Challenge** - Opportunity to take ownership of projects with a high level of creative and technical complexity
  • - **Learning & Growth** - A collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning and mentorship
  • - **Culture **- A company with a team from around the world that feels like a family
  • - **Flexible hybrid** - For candidates based in Montreal and its suburbs, this role follows a hybrid work schedule, with three days in the office and two days working each week remotely
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
WordPress developmentblock editorblock themescore web technologiesHTTPHTMLCSSJavaScriptSQLperformance optimization
Soft Skills
technical leadershipproject ownershipcommunicationmultitaskingtrainingclient managementteam managementdocumentationworkshop facilitationquality assurance