Senior WordPress Backend Developer

Modern Tribe, is looking for a Senior Backend Developer with advanced WordPress experience to join our team. Do you have a near encyclopedic knowledge of what was included in the last few major WordPress releases? Could you go toe to toe in a WordPress coding standard battle? Do you dream in WordPress? We want to meet you!

The Backend developer gig at Modern Tribe will offer you the opportunity to become a leader within our tribe. You will be helping to build and inspire an awesome dev team working on innovative and large scale WordPress installations. We are looking for a backend developer that is already actively working in the WordPress website and plugin development field. You need to be up to speed and knowledgeable about the most recent releases and standards of WordPress. We want you to be as excited and as passionate as we are about what we are creating with the platform.

Experienced WordPress developers only!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the project strategist to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand
• Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure the technical feasibility and point out potential issues
• Work with a team of developers to deliver on time, on budget and on scope
• Architect and develop broadly compatible new products, features, and bug fixes with consideration for accessibility, performance, and multilingual installations
• Write high quality code with readability, efficiency and maintainability in mind
• Develop and maintain complex WordPress-based applications
• Implement complex features using modern PHP code and patterns while following standards
• Code review the work of other developers
• Improve our internal tools, libraries and standards
• Actively participate in our scrum meetings
• Work with the team to diagnose and resolve backend bugs and support requests
• Mentor junior developers

Personal Competencies

• Strong communication skills
• Experience working as part of a remote team
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented
• Strong organizational skills
• A methodical approach to all tasks
• Ability to prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
• Fluent English speaker

Knowledge & Experience

• 3-5 years experience working as a backend web developer on production sites
• 3+ years experience working on WordPress sites
• Extensive experience implementing complex WordPress sites
• Skilled at crafting modern PHP
• A comprehensive understanding of what it takes to write secure and performant code
• Thorough knowledge of WordPress, PHP and MySQL
• Excellent understanding of OOP, software development life cycle and better practices
• Experience working with at least one automated testing framework

Bonus Points

• Experience with continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines
• Unit Testing
• Experience with WPML
• Experience with server technologies like Redis or ElasticSearch
• Remote work experience

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Location
Work from anywhere in North, Central or South America. Please do not apply if your timezone is outside of the US range and if you are not totally fluent in English. You just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.
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Compensation
Pay range is between $50-$80 US per hour commensurate with qualifications and experience. We are currently looking for both Full Time devs and freelance contractors about 15-20 hours a week for this gig.

Inclusion Statement

Modern Tribe is committed to a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We foster an environment of collaboration, open engagement, fairness and respect regardless of differences in age, race, disability, national origin, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. As a hybrid workspace ranging from distributed contractors to traditional employees, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of our global team.

We come from all walks of life. We are small business owners. We are tattoo aficionados and 80’s movie buffs and ex-pats. We are homeschool teachers. We are single parents. We are musicians, college drop-outs, and entrepreneurs. We are travelers, feminists, runners, volunteers, and makers. We are a Modern Tribe.

Everyday we strive to fulfill our motto: live well and do good work. We hope you will consider joining us.