Senior WordPress Engineer / Technical Lead

Own the technical administration of the WordPress environment on WP Engine.

Manage site/environment configuration and production, staging, and development environments.

Manage deployments and release processes.

Coordinate DNS and domain configuration.

Manage SSL/certificate requirements.

Manage backups and restoration procedures.

Configure caching and CDN capabilities where applicable.

Monitor performance and website health.

Manage WordPress/PHP version upgrades.

Troubleshoot hosting-related issues and coordinate with WP Engine support when required.

Monitor uptime and overall website health.

Monitor website performance and Core Web Vitals.

Optimize WordPress/PHP/database performance.

Identify slow plugins, queries, scripts, and third-party dependencies.

Optimize images and media delivery.

Implement appropriate caching strategies.

Optimize CSS and JavaScript loading.

Work with SEO teams to maintain technical SEO performance.

Investigate performance regressions following releases.

Maintain WordPress security best practices.

Manage WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates.

Identify vulnerable or obsolete plugins.

Implement appropriate access controls.

Support security reviews and vulnerability remediation.

Work with IT/security teams on penetration testing and remediation.

Ensure appropriate backup and recovery procedures.

Follow organizational security and compliance requirements.

Develop and maintain integrations between WordPress and external systems such as CRM, marketing automation, analytics, forms, lead-generation platforms, social platforms, SEO platforms, third-party SaaS applications, and internal applications.

Use REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, and authentication mechanisms.

Troubleshoot API integration and data-flow issues.

Work with SEO and Marketing teams to support SEO and analytics requirements.

Support GA4, Google Search Console, structured data/schema, XML sitemaps, metadata, canonical URLs, redirects, robots.txt, technical SEO, website tracking, and conversion tracking.

Manage website releases from development to staging to production.

Establish appropriate deployment and rollback procedures.

Conduct pre-production testing.

Maintain release documentation.

Ensure production changes are controlled and traceable.

Minimize production downtime and deployment risks.

Act as the technical point of contact for WordPress.

Provide technical estimates for new requirements.

Review work produced by other developers.

Establish development standards and best practices.

Perform code reviews.

Mentor the 5+ year WordPress developer.

Identify technical debt and recommend remediation.

Maintain technical documentation and architecture information.

Help define the future WordPress/web technology roadmap.

Work closely with Creative, UX/UI, Marketing, SEO, Content, Product/business stakeholders, Data/Analytics, IT, Cybersecurity, and external agencies/vendors.

Translate between business requirements, creative designs, and technical implementation.

js and modern JavaScript frameworks.

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).

Elementor or equivalent page-builder experience.

WooCommerce, where applicable.

CI/CD and Docker.

CDN technologies and Cloudflare.

Redis/object caching.

New Relic or similar monitoring tools.

GA4 and Google Search Console.

Technical SEO.

Web accessibility/WCAG.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

Be the technical owner rather than a page-builder-only developer.

Be able to diagnose website performance, production incidents, plugin conflicts, infrastructure issues, and release failures.

Be able to evaluate whether a design should be implemented as a reusable block, template, plugin, or page.

Be comfortable owning production website technology and infrastructure.