WordPress Engineer (m/f/d) - Remote

We are Syde! Europe's biggest WordPress agency and a Gold Agency Partner of WordPress VIP. With over 130 employees in more than 40 countries, we create sophisticated projects with WordPress and WooCommerce completely remote!

As a WordPress Engineer (m/f/d), you will be responsible for full stack development, which means coding and implementing new features on our website projects and participating in architecture definitions.

On top of exciting projects with enterprise clients like PayPal, and a diverse range of work, there is an excellent opportunity for you to learn and develop your skills. You will work alongside some of the best WordPress developers, giving you great exposure to various technologies.


Your responsibilities:

- As part of a team of experienced WordPress developers, you will create state-of-the-art WordPress solutions for enterprise clients worldwide.
- Working closely with your team to develop features, enhancements, and bug fixes for enterprise-level website projects.
- Collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components) for reuse across projects.
- Converting acceptance criteria into proposals for implementation, estimating the required effort, and planning tasks together with your team lead.
- Communicating with the client about technical requirements, reporting progress, and clarifying issues.
- Ensuring cross-browser support for front-end solutions and collaborating with our QA team to verify requirements and ensure that expectations are met.
- Adding and improving automated test coverage to existing and new PHP and JS packages.
- Performing code reviews and addressing feedback.
- Maintaining and deploying new features to live websites using a controlled CI/CD workflow.
- Collaborating with our hosting partners to ensure our client's website's highest security, performance, and availability.


Must-haves:

- Solid knowledge and working experience with object-oriented PHP and JavaScript (specifically React), HTML, and CSS
- Familiarity with package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn)
- Experience with front-end tooling for JS and CSS
- Working experience with Git or another version control system
- Enthusiasm for web development and open-source technologies
- Professional English skills (B1 or up)
- Team-orientation and flexibility
- Independence, self-motivation, and organization
- Critical and solution-oriented thinking
- Excellent communication skills in the technical and non-technical environment


Nice-to-haves:

- Experience working with WordPress and creating (Gutenberg) Blocks in particular
- Knowledge of WooCommerce, WordPress Multisite, API integrations
- Familiarity with PSR specifications
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience working with REST API / GraphQL
- Working knowledge of web-server software like Apache and NGINX
- Experience with other modern PHP frameworks and/or JavaScript development/front-end frameworks
- Good understanding of databases and SQL
- Experience with Docker
- Working knowledge of automated testing and linting with tools like PHPUnit, Psalm, ESLint, or Jest
- Experience in using JIRA & Confluence
- Experience with remote work


What we offer:

- Work from your home office (we are 100% remote)
- Flexible working hours
- Public holidays in your country
- Hardware budget
- Exciting Global Enterprise Clients like SAP, Paypal, and many more
- Working at the heart of WordPress as a partner of WordPress VIP and WooCommerce, with direct contact with Automattic's employees
- Visiting WordCamps and able to hold sessions
- Consistent learning and career development
- Attending annual teaUpgrade to see actual infoetings
- A warm Syde culture that appreciates YOU
- Collegial and global team in an agile environment
- Flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths
- Openness to entrepreneurial thinking and acting

And much more!


If you are interested, please apply directly on our website with this link:

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