Senior Staff WordPress Engineer (Remote AMER)

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Company details

Type of job: Freelance
Country: Australia
City: Melbourne
Company: XWP

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Description of the offer

Who You Are

• You are an enthusiastic WordPress advocate
• You are fueled by a balanced blend of humility and confidence
• You appreciate order and efficiency but have an action-oriented approach
• You have an appetite for learning and self-development
• You value autonomy and have the self-management skills to operate dependably in a fully remote role
• You have a keen eye for details, even the small ones
• You strongly resonate with XWP’s values of giving, mastery, and teamwork

What You’ve Done

• You’ve led the technical direction of small to medium scale WordPress projects
• You have experience leading teams of 2-5 engineers
• You’ve actively participated in mentoring and guiding less experienced developers to follow best practices through code reviews
• You’ve built complex custom WordPress plugins from scratch
• You’ve worked extensively with PHP, WordPress, React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

What You’ll Do at XWP

Be An Engaged Team Member

• Deliver praise and constructive feedback across the organization and work to foster a culture of seeking out feedback and using it as a tool for growth
• Demonstrate the cultural value of effective communication: Identifying the audience and listening to understand
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing, where people are encouraged to share in a respectful manner

• Create a positive work environment where other developers learn from your leadership and expertise
• Act as engineering lead, providing the technical architecture, on at one or two projects concurrently
• Lead estimations for all tickets in the backlog and participate in Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Review Meetings
• Lead code reviews, mentor and give feedback to other developers working on projects

• Develop custom WordPress plugins for use at enterprise scale
• Create custom React-based Gutenberg Blocks
• Utilize WordPress technologies like WP-CLI and the WP-REST-API
• Use package management and build tools as part of CI/CD workflows
• Implement WordPress, PHP, Javascript and CSS best practices across projects
• Debug across a wide range of browsers and devices

• Support teams in their understanding of our organization and the client’s strategies and how they apply to their project
• Help to define technical strategy and tooling and support the implementation across teams
• Support the simplification of project technical designs across several teams

 

What Success Looks Like

• Proposed deliverables and solutions are completed on time and on budget across teams
• Successful mentoring of less experienced engineers
• Collaborative and effective communication across global time zones and cultures
• Proactive approach to learning, growth, and sharing
• Having the trust and confidence of your teammates
• Leading by example and treating others with respect

 

Payscale & Benefits

• Trust and support from your colleagues (we look out for each other and work together towards our shared goals and vision)
• The rewards of a highly collaborative culture (we’re a team, not a working group)
• Remote work done right! High levels of flexibility, skip the commute, time to invest in family, caregiving, and interests outside of work
• The chance to play an important part in helping XWP achieve its full potential and make a meaningful difference for our clients, team members and the open web
• An expected salary range of USD $100,000 to $135,000 or contractor rates of $55-$75/hr
• Unleash+ allowance of $2,500 per year to enrich your life, and other benefits

 

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