Wordpress Developer

Senior WordPress Developer – PHP - JavaScript - React

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Predominately remote with occasional visits to London (circa 1 per day month)

Circa £90,000 + benefits

Permanent

A skilled Senior WordPress Developer is sought to join a development team working in a fast paced, high traffic environment.

Looking for strong WordPress and all-round engineering experience within enterprise level environments. Such as web architecture, custom RSS feeds, WordPress VIP and full stack web development including JavaScript and React.

Must be willing to complete a technical task to determine suitability.

Responsibilities / Skills

• Develop and maintain features for a large-scale WordPress website
• Contribute to shared WordPress plugins and microservices
• Create and maintain custom Gutenberg blocks, API endpoints, and front-end components
• Optimise performance across Core Web Vitals, response times, and query efficiency
• Troubleshoot technical issues raised
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive scalable, maintainable codebases
• Work autonomously, managing workload and priorities in a remote-friendly setting
• Extensive hands-on WordPress development experience
• Strong knowledge of PHP, JavaScript, React, and Gutenberg
• Experience with custom blocks, RSS feeds, and JSON APIs
• Solid understanding of front-end performance and web standards
• Familiar with Git and version control principles
• Experience working in Agile teams and using tools like JIRA
• Excellent communication skills and self-management within a distributed team

Highly Desirable : Exposure to WordPress VIP and large-scale WordPress architecture

Experience integrating with AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda, API Gateway)