This is a remote freelancing job. Work from anywhere and join our distributed team working across the globe. If your timezone is outside of US business hours, but you work at least 3-4+ hours of overlap each day, let’s chat. You should be fluent in English and just need a computer and a strong wifi signal to support daily video chats with the Tribe.
Modern Tribe is looking for a WordPress Engineer with solid PHP and WordPress experience to join our agency team. Are you a dependable and competent developer with strong communication skills? Are you a quick learner that likes to solve complex problems using WordPress and OOP techniques? We want to meet you!
The WordPress Engineer gig at Modern Tribe will offer you the opportunity to become a core member within our tribe. You will be collaborating with an awesome dev team 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.
Please note: This is not an entry-level position. We are looking for experienced WordPress developers at this time.
Responsibilities
As a WordPress Engineer (Backend) at Modern Tribe, some of your key responsibilities will be:
Collaborate with the project strategist and senior backend developers to articulate the best technological solution for the problem at hand
Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure technical feasibility and point out potential issues
Manage yourself to make sure you can deliver on time, on budget and on scope
Architect and develop new backend features and plugins, custom functionality, and theme integration
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
Code review the work of other developers
Improve our internal tools, libraries and standards
Actively participate in discipline and scrum meetings
Work with your project team to diagnose and resolve backend bugs and support requests
Compensation
Pay range for this role is commensurate with qualifications and experience about 15-20 hours per week. We are also open to full time applicants for this role.
Perks
We believe that freelancing is a way of life. We understand what it means to be a freelancer. We offer consistency in expectations, payment, and support. We believe in learning from each other and fostering personal growth. You can expect to learn a lot while working with us.
