WordPress Engineer - Remote

This is a full stack development role in which you will create state-of-the-art WordPress solutions for enterprise clients worldwide as part of a team of experienced WordPress engineers.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Team collaboration to develop features, enhancements, and bug fixes for enterprise-level website projects
• Cross-team collaboration 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 to make sure 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

• Object-oriented PHP, JavaScript (specifically React), HTML, and CSS (5+ years)
• Package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn) 
• Front-end tooling for JS and CSS
• Git or another version control system
• Enthusiasm about web development and open-source technologies
• Flexibility and an independent and structured way of working
• Team-oriented behavior
• Self-motivation and organization
• Professional online communication in a remote environment
• Analytical skills, creative and solution-oriented way of thinking and working
• Confidence in communicating with colleagues and clients with technical and non-technical backgrounds
  
  

NICE-TO-HAVES

• WordPress, especially creating (Gutenberg) Blocks
• WooCommerce, WordPress Multisite, API integrations
• PSR specifications
• TypeScript
• REST API / GraphQL
• Web-server software like Apache and NGINX
• 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
• JIRA & Confluence
• Experience with remote work

Today, the Syde team comprises over 130 experts worldwide working remotely in a modern digital environment. A human-centered approach to work, an agile mindset, and continuous improvement are our basis for successful projects. Therefore, we encourage active participation and creative collaboration.

Step 1: Basic online assessment with Codility

Step 2: Interview with People Operations

Step 3: Take-home task to showcase your knowledge of state-of-the-art PHP patterns

Step 4: Technical interview (no live coding)