About WP Engine
We engage the most inspired minds to do their best work wherever they work best—powering the freedom to create worldwide.
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.
The Role in a Nutshell
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.
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.
Key Responsibilities
* 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
* Demonstrated understanding of modern WordPress development.
* Demonstrated expertise in native block development using React.
* Familiarity with the WordPress Block Editor and theme.json.
* 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
WP Engine strives to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.