We are looking for a Senior WordPress Engineer to own and evolve a production WordPress CMS as a dependable publishing platform for editorial teams. You will build and maintain custom themes, plugins, workflows, and integrations while keeping the platform secure, performant, and maintainable.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: Remote
Experience: Senior-level
This role is suited to an engineer who is comfortable working in an established production environment, improving legacy code incrementally, and taking ownership from requirements through production.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop production-quality PHP 7.x/8.x code using maintainable, modern practices.
- Build custom WordPress themes from scratch based on editorial and design requirements.
- Develop, customise, maintain, patch, and evaluate WordPress plugins.
- Build PHP-based interfaces for editorial and administrative users.
- Integrate external APIs with appropriate handling of failures, retries, and rate limits.
- Debug and optimise WordPress performance, including slow queries, caching, assets, and problematic plugins.
- Support WordPress applications handling 100+ concurrent users while maintaining responsive public and admin experiences.
- Apply WordPress security best practices, including hardening, sanitisation, escaping, capability checks, and update management.
- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and resolve publishing problems while keeping the platform live.
- Work effectively with legacy code and technical debt, improving the existing platform without unnecessary rewrites.
- Refactor incrementally using safe and reversible changes.
- Design maintainable solutions that future engineers can extend.
- Own WordPress best practices, plugin/theme lifecycle management, and ongoing platform stewardship.
- Participate in code reviews and maintain engineering standards.
- Work independently from requirements through production delivery.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong professional experience with PHP 7.x/8.x.
- Extensive experience developing and maintaining WordPress applications in production.
- Proven experience building custom WordPress themes and plugins.
- Strong understanding of WordPress security and production support.
- Experience with API integrations and defensive coding.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills.
- Experience working with legacy systems and technical debt.
- Demonstrated ability to own and maintain a live WordPress platform over the long term; 2+ years of production platform ownership is expected.
- Ability to work independently and contribute effectively to code reviews.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for remote collaboration.
- Comfortable with asynchronous communication, standups, technical discussions, and regular team coordination.
- Willingness to spend up to 10 days onsite during onboarding.
Nice to Have
- Experience with PHPUnit testing and CI/CD.
- Experience with Docker, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB alongside WordPress.
- Experience with containerised development environments and adjacent search/data systems.
What Success Looks Like
- New editorial-facing CMS capabilities are delivered reliably.
- Production issues and editorial-reported CMS problems are reduced.
- The WordPress platform remains secure, performant, and available.
- Technical debt is retired incrementally without publishing downtime.
- The platform continues to evolve without unnecessary rewrites.
- Engineering standards remain high across independently delivered features and code reviews.
Pay: ₹1,000,000.00 - ₹1,600,000.00 per year
Work Location: Remote
