Contract Senior Web Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the core of enterprise-level WordPress solutions, developing high-performance plugins and themes with modern PHP and sophisticated Gutenberg blocks in React.js.
• Define the back-end technical vision and strategy for large-scale projects, making critical decisions on architecture, performance, and scalability that set the stage for long-term success.
• Elevate the entire team's output by providing expert code reviews that champion code quality, security, and maintainability.
• Solve complex performance and caching challenges, transforming slow, brittle systems into fast, resilient platforms that can handle millions of visitors.
• Your work will become the foundation upon which our clients build, creating the tools and systems that power digital experiences for a global audience.
• What you will achieve
• Within your first month, you'll have taken ownership of a significant back-end feature or system, shipping code that demonstrates your architectural expertise.
• By the 3-month mark, a performance or caching improvement you championed will have resulted in a measurable increase in site speed or stability for a client project.
• Your technical guidance will have directly shaped a project's strategy, with your architectural recommendations being implemented and praised by both the team and the client.
• You will have established a new pattern or best practice for WordPress development that has been adopted by other engineers, elevating the team's collective output.

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