The Good Glamm GroupRemote
Lead /Senior Software Engineer- PHP (Remote)
United States of America
Full Time
1 hour ago
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Key skills
PHP (v7+)WordPress internalsWP REST APIMySQLMariaDBRDBMSJavaScript (ES6+)Continuous IntegrationContinuous DevelopmentAgileGraphQLSASSReact.jsNext.jsUnit testingPHPUnitWordPress VIPJavaScriptPHPReactSassUnit TestingREST APIWordPressProduct Management
About this role
The Good Glamm Group is seeking a Lead/Senior Software Engineer specializing in PHP and WordPress. The role involves creating technical specifications, developing custom plugins, and collaborating with product management while ensuring adherence to software engineering best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Understand product requirements and create technical specs for the tasks
- Create new and/or develop existing custom plugins to provide technical solutions for Product/Editorial asks
- Embrace WordPress philosophy and coding standards, software engineering best practices and implement them across all codebases under your purview
- Collaborate with Product and Editorial management, communicate complex technical intricacies to them and act as a subject matter expert advising them on best technical implementations
- Perform effective peer code reviews
Requirements:
- solid understanding of software engineering principles in the context of web development
- be fluent with modern PHP (v7+) backed by 7+ years of experience
- have an understanding of WordPress internals backed by 3+ years of experience developing custom solutions built on WordPress
- have an understanding of WP REST API
- have a strong understanding of MySQL/MariaDB or any other RDBMS
- be experienced in working with modern JavaScript (ES6+)
- be experienced in writing performant code which is easy to read and maintain
- have an eye for detail and ability to plan ahead
- have empathy for peers and co-workers, being able to understand others' perspective and ability to work with them
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Development
- Agile way of working
- WordPress as a Headless CMS using REST API and/or GraphQL
- SASS, React.js, Next.js
- Working on large scale/enterprise WordPress implementations (websites that receive 1+ million hits per month)
- Unit testing (especially PHPUnit)
- WordPress VIP
- developed and/or contributed to open source WordPress/other projects
- contributed to WordPress core
- presented talks at one or more WordCamps and/or if you organize your local WordPress meetup