WordPress Security Developer – Anti Spam Specialist
The Blond HR
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Romania
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About the role
- Audit the current WordPress registration and login flows, including all security plugins and custom code.
- Identify how bots are circumventing existing protections (e.g., API abuse, headless browsers, plugin vulnerabilities).
- Develop and implement advanced anti spam measures tailored to the site's architecture (e.g., custom challenges, behavior analysis, honeypots, rate limiting, or integration with third party services like Cloudflare Turnstile).
- Ensure the solution is lightweight, user friendly for genuine customers, and maintainable.
- Provide documentation and a brief hand off to the client.
Requirements
- Proven experience with WordPress security, specifically combating spam registrations and bot attacks.
- Strong PHP and WordPress development skills (themes, plugins, hooks, REST API).
- Familiarity with modern anti spam techniques (CAPTCHA variants, JavaScript challenges, IP analysis, browser fingerprinting, etc.).
- Ability to reverse engineer how bots work and test your own solutions.
- Portfolio of similar projects please include links or descriptions of past work where you successfully reduced spam or secured a WordPress site.
- Excellent communication in English (written and spoken).
Benefits
- 100% remote work from anywhere in your timezone.
- Flexible hours focus on delivery, not clock watching.
- Direct collaboration with the client - no middlemen, no bureaucracy.
- Impactful work solve a decade old problem that actually matters to the business.
- Potential for ongoing work if results are strong, there may be additional security projects.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
WordPress securityPHPWordPress developmentthemespluginshooksREST APIanti spam techniquesCAPTCHAJavaScript challenges
Soft Skills
communication