WordPress Developer

Our client is looking for an experienced WordPress developer to provide ongoing development coverage and support for a content-rich marketing site built on a custom PHP theme and hosted on WP Engine. You'll keep the site stable, secure, and up to date, respond when issues come up, and take on development work as the team's needs evolve. You'll need to work independently and communicate clearly with nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and support a custom WordPress theme built with PHP, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and custom post types
• Perform routine WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates, testing changes in staging before they go to production
• Respond to and resolve urgent production issues, such as site outages, broken functionality, plugin conflicts, and security concerns
• Answer support questions from content and marketing teams and help them work effectively in WordPress.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across the WordPress site.
• Take on development requests as they arise, such as new templates, ACF components, integrations, and enhancements
• Manage the site within WPEngine's staging and production environments, including backups and restore points
• Work within a Git and GitHub pull-request workflow, and help establish or improve version control and deployment practices where needed
• Keep the site's PHP version and dependencies current and supported on WPEngine
• Document fixes, processes, and site architecture so knowledge isn't lost

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional WordPress development experience, with a focus on custom themes rather than page builders
• Strong proficiency in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Deep experience with ACF, custom post types, taxonomies, and WordPress template hierarchy
• Experience maintaining and troubleshooting production WordPress sites, including plugin conflicts, updates, and security hardening
• Hands-on experience with WPEngine or a similar managed WordPress host
• Comfort working in Git and GitHub with a pull-request-based workflow
• Working experience with Next.js and React, enough to maintain and troubleshoot an existing application
• Familiarity with consuming WordPress data via the REST API or WPGraphQL
• Strong written communication and the ability to work independently with minimal oversight Nice to have
• Experience with CI/CD deployments (e.g., GitHub Actions to WPEngine)
• Technical SEO experience, such as structured data, redirects, sitemaps, and site performance (Core Web Vitals)
• Familiarity with web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA)
• Experience integrating marketing tools such as forms, analytics, and tag managers