1189 Senior WordPress Developer

Intetics Inc., a leading American technology company specializing in custom software application development, distributed professional teams creation, software product quality assessment, and “all-things-digital” solutions, is looking for a Senior WordPress Developer to join its innovative team.

Project Responsibilities

Build and maintain custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks across a portfolio of high-traffic, multilingual WordPress sites

Develop and maintain libraries, block collections, Composer packages, and tooling that accelerate delivery across teams

Own quality and performance: refactor legacy code, optimize queries and caching, and improve Core Web Vitals metrics

Build and consume REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems

Take part in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering standards initiatives

Collaborate with product, marketing, SEO, content, and QA teams on new features and site improvements

Document technical decisions and contribute to engineering best practices

Ensure software development best practices and timely product delivery

Candidate's Portrait

We're looking for a Senior WordPress Developer who treats WordPress as a modern engineering platform rather than a traditional CMS. You'll help build and scale high-traffic multilingual web platforms while maintaining high standards of performance, security, scalability, and code quality. The ideal candidate cares about architecture as much as feature delivery and writes code that other developers are happy to maintain.

Must-haves:

5+ years of WordPress development experience

Strong Object-Oriented PHP (8.x) skills

Experience with namespaces, PSR standards, and Composer

Deep knowledge of WordPress Core APIs

Strong understanding of hooks, custom post types, taxonomies, WP_Query, and metadata APIs

Experience with ACF Pro and native custom fields

Solid production experience building Gutenberg blocks

React and JSX development experience

Experience with block.json and @wordpress/scripts

Strong modern JavaScript (ES6+)

Experience with Webpack or Vite

Modern CSS development (Sass, PostCSS)

Experience designing and building RESTful APIs

Experience creating custom WordPress REST endpoints

Strong understanding of WordPress security best practices

Experience with sanitization, escaping, nonces, and user capabilities

WordPress performance optimization expertise

Object caching and query optimization experience

Comfortable with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines

Experience working in AI-assisted development environments (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)

Good written and spoken English

Nice-to-have:

Block Themes

Full Site Editing (FSE)

theme.json

WordPress Interactivity API

Bedrock or similar Composer-based WordPress structures

PHPUnit

Playwright

PHPStan

PHPCS / WPCS

Timber / Twig

Blade templating

WordPress Multisite

WPML

Polylang

Headless WordPress

WPGraphQL

Next.js

Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)

Technical SEO

Experience with enterprise content platforms

Experience with high-traffic web applications