Specialist - Software Engineering

Role: Senior Software Engineer WordPress Specialist

Pay-Rate: USD 40 to 45 per hour

Client Name: News Corporate Services Inc.

Working Location: Brazil/ Colombia/Costa Rica/Ecuador

Hiring Mode: Contractor.

Skills

We are seeking an innovative and highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our

team focusing on building and managing missioncritical WordPress plugins and

custom solutions for our editorial newsroom workflows The ideal candidate not only

possesses expertlevel WordPress and engineering skills but also proactively leverages

AI tools and principles to enhance the entire software development lifecycle driving

velocity code quality and technical documentation

Key Responsibilities

Architect develop and maintain custom Gutenberg plugins and React editor

components specifically tailored for enterpriselevel newsroom and content

workflows

Design and implement performant API endpoints and optimize database queries

for hightraffic media platforms

Participate comprehensively in the SDLC contributing to architectural

discussions coding and comprehensive peer reviews

Proactively integrate and leverage AIenabled workflows eg in testing

refactoring and documentation to accelerate development and ensure code

maintainability

Ensure that all code is welldocumented adhering to enterprise standards and

leave the codebase better than it was found

Collaborate with product and editorial teams to translate complex business needs

into productionready technical specifications

Champion best practices in testing unit integration E2E CICD and

performance engineering

Skills Required

WordPress Expertise Advanced knowledge of the WordPress Gutenberg

block editor the WordPress hook system and the REST API

Core Languages Frameworks Advanced proficiency in PHP JavaScript

ES6 and React for complex editor state management

Custom Development Extensive experience with custom WordPress plugin

and block development

Performance APIs Proven experience writing custom API endpoints and

optimizing queries for performance

AI Integration Understanding Demonstrated ability to proactively use and

integrate AI tools eg GitHub CoPilot specialized models for contextual

refactoring test scaffolding documentation generation and other elements of the

development lifecycle

Tooling Experience using dependency management tools like Composer and

NPMYarn

Nicetohave

Experience with advanced AI concepts like Prompt Engineering and AI

integration within CMS platforms

Proficiency in unit integration and E2E testing eg Jest PHPUnit Cypress

Playwright

Understanding of RAG RetrievalAugmented Generation vector databases

and how to minimize hallucinations and latency when building AIdriven

editorial tools

Experience working with headless WordPress architectures

Familiarity with CICD systems such as Jenkins CircleCI or GitHub Actions

Past contributions to opensource software projects

Key Attributes

Our ideal candidate is someone who

Proactively uses AI tools to enhance delivery cycles and overall engineering

quality They treat AI as a primary partner in the development lifecycle to move

from concept to production at a high velocity

Possess a build it own it mindset Instead of tossing features to QA to find

bugs they proactively test their own work

Identifies technical risks proposes architectural improvements and offers

technical recommendations that enhance product stability and user experience

Is eager to become involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle from

planning and architecture to coding and peer review

Leaves a codebase better documented than they found it

Is a strong communicator able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to

audiences of varying technical knowledge