
Senior WordPress Engineer
Syde GmbH
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Working closely with your team to develop features, enhancements, and bug fixes for enterprise-level website projects
- Collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components) for reuse across projects
- Converting acceptance criteria into proposals for implementation, estimating the required effort, and planning tasks together with your team lead
- Communicating with the client about technical requirements, reporting progress, and clarifying issues
- Ensuring cross-browser support for front-end solutions and collaborating with our QA team to verify requirements and to make sure that expectations are met
- Adding and improving automated test coverage to existing and new PHP and JS packages
- Performing code reviews and addressing feedback
- Maintaining and deploying new features to live websites using a controlled CI/CD workflow
- Collaborating with our hosting partners to ensure our client's website's highest security, performance, and availability
Requirements
- Solid knowledge of and working experience with object-oriented PHP and JavaScript (specifically React), HTML, and CSS
- Familiarity with package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn)
- Experience with front-end tooling for JS and CSS
- Familiarity and experience working with Git or another version control system
- You are enthusiastic about web development and open-source technologies
- You can write and speak English at a professional level (B1 or up)
- Flexibility and an independent and structured way of working
- Team-oriented behavior
- You are self-motivated and organized, with good online communication in a remote environment
- Analytical skills and a creative and solution-oriented way of thinking and working
- Confidence in communicating with colleagues and clients with technical and non-technical backgrounds
Benefits
- Work from home (we are 100% remote)
- Flexible working hours
- Annual hardware budget
- Exciting global enterprise clients like SAP or PayPal
- Working at the heart of WordPress as a partner of WordPress VIP and WooCommerce
- Attend our local team events
- Visit WordCamps with the chance to hold sessions
- Multicultural, globally distributed team
- Lifelong learning and growth with career advancements
- A dynamic work environment with the encouragement of entrepreneurial thinking and acting
- A supportive Syde culture that appreciates YOU
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
object-oriented PHPJavaScriptReactHTMLCSSautomated testingCI/CDcode reviewsfront-end toolingversion control
Soft Skills
team-orientedself-motivatedorganizedanalytical skillscreative thinkingsolution-orientedflexibilityindependent workinggood communicationclient communication