Senior Web Developer

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WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine’s innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. Learn more at wpengine.com.

The Role in a Nutshell
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We need a capable web developer skilled in modern WordPress development, particularly native block development using React, to join the team reshaping the public face of WP Engine. This developer will work with other developers, designers, and partners across our Marketing department to build the high-traffic, high-performance, high-visibility sites we are responsible for, running on both headless and traditional WordPress. If that kind of responsibility and technology is appealing, read on!
 

What's cool about this job
 

Web Developers in WP Engine's Marketing department work remotely for a well-known, growing WordPress company. They use some of the very latest technologies in a friendly and supportive team of expert developers. The development team works alongside our internal partners to build our company's public presence. We also support our company internally by sharing our expertise and knowledge with other parts of the business. We are working to improve our sites and technology because we believe "Design Matters" and that we should be "Built for Growth" (check out the “Core Values” section of wpengine.com/careers!).
 

We are constantly improving our web experience, from our primary website (a headless WordPress application built on top of the WP Engine Atlas platform) to our other sister sites using traditional WordPress. To succeed, we need a skilled developer who can start contributing quickly. A strong understanding of WordPress is essential; experience with React—particularly within the WordPress context—is needed. Familiarity with Next.js and GraphQL will be helpful. Bonus points for strengths in some of the following: testing, automation, CI/CD, continuous improvement, accessibility, other headless frameworks, API development, and SEO.
 

The day to day
 

Most days, you’ll work with your team on all aspects of building sites on Atlas. That might involve creating new components, modifying existing components, migrating content from old WordPress sites to our Atlas site, improving tooling, working with an Engineering team on ways to improve the platform, or identifying gaps in our processes. That said, we work in a fast-paced environment with a variety of different marketing projects and business needs, so some days or weeks you might end up working on one of the other, non-headless WordPress sites your team maintains. Some of the things you’ll do often:

Collaborate with your team to build elegant and compelling user experiences on the web, or build the behind-the-scenes systems that get the data we need—often pair or mob programming

Work with your team to ensure our architecture, plugins, and internal developer experience are well-crafted

Collaborate with our Marketing team (or Product & Engineering partners) to understand and create our next project

Address security vulnerabilities to improve security of our sites

Learn something new, or teach something new to a colleague

Embrace the challenges that come with our fast-paced environment and high visibility sites
 

Your skills and expertise

Minimum qualifications:

Demonstrated understanding of modern WordPress development

Demonstrated expertise in native block development using React

Familiarity with the WordPress Block Editor and theme.json

Competence in React, JavaScript, and PHP

Proven experience in modern front-end web development, including writing HTML that is semantic and accessible, styled by modern CSS

Ability to approach obstacles as challenges to be overcome

Able to communicate effectively with others, teach others, learn from others, and build working relationships with colleagues and collaborators, both technical and non-technical

The desire to work in a team that values elegance and constructive collaboration

Preferred Skills:

WordPress headless experience; specific experience with Atlas or Faust.js is a big plus, but definitely not required

Familiarity with Next.js and GraphQL

Build and automation tools, such as Composer, Yarn, Webpack, Docker, CI/CD tools, shell scripting

Solid understanding of automated testing and monitoring

Server administration experience (e.g., nginx configuration, Cloudflare, log analysis, etc.)

Marketing and analytics experience

Systems thinking and ability to think at multiple levels of abstraction

Lean, DevOps, and/or experience implementing Agile principles
 

The Perks and Benefits

Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)

Tax free annual wellness benefit of €1,000 through Clevercards

Matched pension plan

VHI Healthcare & Dental

Employee Assistance Program

Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)

One-time €465 Home Office Stipend

Employee Resource Groups

4 Company Wellness Days

Wellness Program

Calm App Subscription

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