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Hands-On Senior WordPress & Full-Stack Technical Lead
SportsFixtures
Riyadh, KSA
Full Time
Lead
4 weeks ago
WordPressPHPFull Stack Web DevelopmentMERN StackReactNode.js
Free
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About the Role
SportsFixtures is hiring a Hands-On Senior WordPress & Full-Stack Technical Lead to manage live commercial web platforms. The role involves maintaining WordPress sites, full-stack development, hosting management, and acting as a technical bridge between the founder and the development team.
Key Skills for This Role
WordPressPHPFull Stack Web DevelopmentMERN StackReactNode.js
Responsibilities
- Maintain, improve and troubleshoot WordPress websites
- Work on full stack web development tasks across frontend, backend, APIs and databases
- Help manage hosting, deployments, Cloudflare, GitHub and VPS/Coolify style workflows
- Diagnose and fix live website and platform issues
- Support customer facing technical issues where needed
- Act as the technical bridge between the founder and the development team
- Translate business priorities into clear technical tasks
- Help plan, assign, track and follow up on development work
- Identify blockers, risks, dependencies and missing information early
- Improve website speed, structure, security and stability
- Support SEO implementation including technical SEO, page structure, metadata, schema and performance
- Review existing code, workflows and systems to identify risks or weak areas
Requirements
- Strong practical experience with WordPress
- Strong practical experience with PHP
- Strong practical experience with full stack web development
- Strong practical experience with MERN stack / React / Node.js
- Strong practical experience with hosting, DNS, Cloudflare or similar
- Strong practical experience with GitHub or similar version control
- Strong practical experience with website speed, performance and technical troubleshooting
- Strong practical experience with SEO friendly website structure
- Strong practical experience with debugging existing websites and inherited codebases
- Strong practical experience with working with live customer facing websites or platforms
- Reliable and organised
- Honest in reporting progress and blockers
Full Job Posting
About the role
- You will act as the technical contact point between the founder, the development team and customer facing business needs.
- The role covers a group of live business websites and platforms, including WordPress sites, custom web apps, content sites, SEO focused sites, landing pages, admin panels and customer facing services.
- The right person will be able to take over existing systems, understand what is working, identify what is risky, fix issues properly, organise tasks clearly, support the team, and communicate progress without needing constant chasing.
Main responsibilities
- Maintain, improve and troubleshoot WordPress websites
- Work on full stack web development tasks across frontend, backend, APIs and databases
- Help manage hosting, deployments, Cloudflare, GitHub and VPS/Coolify style workflows
- Diagnose and fix live website and platform issues
- Support customer facing technical issues where needed
- Act as the technical bridge between the founder and the development team
- Translate business priorities into clear technical tasks
- Help plan, assign, track and follow up on development work
- Identify blockers, risks, dependencies and missing information early
- Improve website speed, structure, security and stability
- Support SEO implementation including technical SEO, page structure, metadata, schema and performance
- Review existing code, workflows and systems to identify risks or weak areas
Required experience
- WordPress
- PHP
- Full stack web development
- MERN stack / React / Node.js
- Hosting, DNS, Cloudflare or similar
- GitHub or similar version control
- Website speed, performance and technical troubleshooting
- SEO friendly website structure
- Debugging existing websites and inherited codebases
- Working with live customer facing websites or platforms
What we need from you
- Reliable and organised
- Honest in reporting progress and blockers
- Calm under pressure
- Clear in written communication
- Comfortable working on real live business systems
- Able to explain technical problems in plain English
- Willing to document work properly
- Able to take responsibility without needing constant chasing
- Practical, commercially aware and focused on getting work live safely
- Comfortable communicating with both technical and non technical people
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