Staff Web Engineer

What you will do:

• Develop enterprise-level WordPress plugins and/or themes primarily using PHP and Gutenberg blocks in React.js
• Expertise in React Architecture and Next.js for leading headless projects - either powered by WordPress or Sanity
• Drive strategy in collaboration with experts across multiple disciplines, and independently lead overall technical vision and delivery on large-scale projects
• Engage meaningfully with clients; eliciting their business requirements, documenting/estimating all technical features, leading demos and driving discussions
• Contribute to the improvement of the Engineering discipline by advancing internal initiatives, engaging on Engineering Leadership discussions, and leading and mentoring other fellow engineers in the context of your projects
• Support sales team by attending digital and in person onsites, and assisting with the development of sales estimates
• Ultimately you will make the web better by finely crafting websites, apps, and tools that reach millions of online visitors every day

About you:

• Your experience independently leading large-scale enterprise projects makes you well-suited to lead a team of lead-level engineers, and wrangle multiple stakeholders, to find simple yet elegant solutions to complex problems
• You have a minimum 2 years in a Lead Engineer, or Engineering Leadership, role
• Your expert skills in React Architecture and WordPress engineering with PHP, React.js, and Gutenberg consistently follow best practices and set the highest standards of excellence
• You have a code portfolio. Link us to your best WordPress work on GitHub and you’ll never have to do any live coding or whiteboard testing!
• You have the ability to expertly debug performance and caching issues across environments
• You prefer to work fully remote and are effectively engaging in a distributed team from the location of your choosing