Syde GmbH

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
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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