Senior Forensic Engineer
The Vertex Companies LLC
Senior WordPress Engineer
GoFundMe.org
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $133,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
BootstrapGraphQLJavaScriptjQueryMySQLNode.jsPHPReactSCSSWebpackWordPress
About the role
- Contribute to the development, customization, and maintenance of high-performance WordPress websites and applications
- Development and maintenance of custom WordPress themes and plugins following best practices and modern coding standards
- Develop and implement sustainable strategies for more streamlined content management for collaboration, editors, and translators
- Architect scalable and performant WordPress solutions for high-traffic websites
- Collaborate with design and product teams to translate UI/UX designs into functional WordPress implementations with attention to detail and appropriate interactivity
- Collaborate with design system team to implement design consistency and best practices across the entire GoFundMe experience
- Integrate third-party APIs and services into WordPress websites
- Contribute to code reviews to uphold code quality standards
- Optimize websites for SEO, accessibility, performance, and responsiveness across all modern devices as directed by the Director of Technical SEO
- Manage and improve WordPress hosting configurations, deployment pipelines (CI/CD) and version control processes
- Stay up-to-date with the latest WordPress core updates, trends, and vulnerabilities, ensuring timely upgrades
- Debug and troubleshoot issues across the stack (front-end, PHP back-end, database, server environments)
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional WordPress development experience
- Advanced proficiency in PHP, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3/SASS, and MySQL
- Strong experience with custom WordPress theme and plugin development
- Solid understanding of WordPress core, hooks, filters, REST API, and multisite environments
- Strong experience with ACF, Gutenberg/Block Editor, and third-party integrations
- Knowledge of WordPress hosting solutions (WPEngine, WPVIP) and domain management
- Proficiency with Node, npm, Git, Gulp, Webpack, Bootstrap, jQuery, Tailwind, and modern development frameworks and workflows
- Experience working with a mature design system or suitable equivalent
- Experience working with localization, modern translation plugins and large-scale multisite installations
- Experience with performance and media optimization, caching strategies, and WordPress security best practices
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with other developers and teams to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Preferred: Experience with React, REST API / GraphQL and custom block development
- Preferred: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
- Preferred: Understanding of SEO technical principles and schema.org structured data
