Senior WordPress Engineer
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HireHawkStaffing and Recruitment
Sri Lanka. Central Visayas, Philippines. Manila, PhilippinesFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- PHPFigmaGitHTMLCSSJavascriptWordPress
Requirements
- 5+ years of WordPress development experience.
- Strong experience building custom WordPress themes or heavily customized WordPress websites.
- Proven experience with high-page-count, content-heavy, SEO-driven, high-traffic, or programmatic SEO websites.
- Strong working knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and responsive development.
- Experience converting Figma or custom designs into production-ready WordPress pages.
- Experience with custom post types, taxonomies, Advanced Custom Fields, reusable templates, and scalable content structures.
- Experience using Git, staging environments, and disciplined staging-to-production deployment workflows.
- Experience with Gutenberg blocks, custom blocks, or structured page builder workflows.
- Experience configuring Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, SSL, caching, firewall rules, and basic security.
- Experience debugging WordPress errors, plugin conflicts, performance issues, hosting issues, and integration failures.
- Experience supporting form submissions, analytics tracking, technical SEO implementation, and website optimization.
- Experience working with remote growth, content, design, or marketing teams.
Responsibilities
- Build a scalable WordPress website from the ground up using clean, maintainable front-end and backend development practices.
- Convert custom Figma designs into responsive, pixel-accurate WordPress pages across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
- Create reusable blocks, components, sections, templates, and backend content structures that help the team launch pages efficiently.
- Develop custom post types, taxonomies, Advanced Custom Fields, and dynamic templates for scalable content management.
- Build programmatic and templatized page systems that can support hundreds or thousands of landing pages over time.
- Maintain strong technical SEO foundations, including URL structures, slugs, redirects, sitemap logic, and internal linking systems.
- Optimize website speed, database queries, caching, media handling, plugin usage, and template performance.
- Own day-to-day website health monitoring, first-line troubleshooting, uptime alerts, performance regressions, and issue escalation when needed.
- Configure and maintain Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, SSL, caching, firewall rules, security basics, and performance optimization.
- Manage Git-based version control, staging environments, code reviews, testing, and controlled production deployments.
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