As a Contract Senior Web Engineer, your mission is to architect the foundational systems that power dynamic, large-scale digital experiences. You will define the technical backbone of our projects, leveraging deep WordPress expertise to build robust, scalable solutions with modern PHP and sophisticated Gutenberg architecture.
Your work bridges critical business needs and elegant technical execution, ensuring the platforms you build are performant, maintainable, and capable of evolving with our clients' ambitions. By setting a high bar for back-end craftsmanship and mentoring through your code, you'll leave a lasting imprint on our products, our team, and the millions of users who interact with your work.
- 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.
- 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.
- By the end of your contract, you'll leave behind a legacy of robust, well-architected systems that continue to perform at scale and a standing invitation for future collaboration.
- You have a deep passion for pushing WordPress to its limits, with expert-level mastery in modern PHP and a sophisticated understanding of the Gutenberg ecosystem.
- Your GitHub is a testament to your craft, filled with real-world WordPress code that demonstrates your ability to build elegant, scalable solutions—no whiteboard tests needed.
- You are a strategic partner and communicator, comfortable leading technical discussions with clients and translating their business needs into a powerful technical vision.
- You are a master of the back-end development lifecycle, with extensive Git workflow experience and a proven ability to expertly debug and optimize complex systems.
- You thrive on a distributed team, proactively collaborating and leading from the remote location of your choice to deliver exceptional results.
Compensation is determined based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, projects, geographic location, and business needs.
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What We Do
Fueled is a digital transformation agency that creates high-quality digital products and experiences—shaped by strategy, designed with intention, and built for business impact.
Our clients range from Fortune 500 leaders to mission-driven nonprofits, government agencies, and startups that believe in doing digital right. They turn to us for deep expertise, creative problem-solving, speed to market, and a relentless focus on quality. We’re proud to count brands like Microsoft, Disney, and Apple, nonprofits like Mayo Clinic, public entities like the White House, publishers like The New York Times, educators like Harvard, and startups that went on to become giants – like Warby Parker – among the hundreds of clients we’ve helped succeed.
With deep expertise across the platforms and technologies we deploy, we deliver results that scale. Our 10up WordPress practice is the industry leader in enterprise-class WordPress delivery. We’ve shipped native and cross platform mobile apps that have racked up media attention and industry recognitions like Apple’s official “App of the Year” award. We’re proud to partner with platforms like Sanity, Webflow, AWS, MoEngage, Amplitude, and Google Analytics – to name a few.
We have more than 300 experts spanning the globe in digital strategy, engineering, user experience and product design, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud infrastructure and architecture, SEO and digital growth, data and analytics. We’re big enough to innovate and scale to any client need, agile enough to stay ahead in a digital ecosystem changing quickly, and small enough that we care about every client.
