We are seeking a Senior WordPress Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of a delivery framework for migrating various websites to WordPress (Gutenberg). As a team leader, you will blend design and programming disciplines to implement migrations, enhance features, and maintain multiple custom frameworks, ensuring application accessibility and performance. You will closely interface with existing teams to optimize site applications.
Cultural Fit:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with a passion for sharing knowledge.
- Collaborative partner with a high priority on internal customer service.
- Capable of meeting daily deadlines.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to “scope of build” discussions with development team, project managers, designers, and other developers.
- Integrate with third-party APIs and customize WordPress to support specific functionality.
- Support current client websites.
- Document plugins, new code, theme, and plugin modifications.
- Enhance personal and team expertise through training, exploration, and prospecting.
- Produce new user-facing features.
- Build reusable code and libraries.
- Optimize applications for performance and scalability.
- Deliver functional, testable code on or before due dates.
- Collaborate with team members and stakeholders using Agile methodologies.
Skills and Requirements:
- Strong understanding of WordPress APIs, theme hierarchy, and custom Gutenberg block development.
- Must have AEM experience or certification.
- Experience in migrating websites to WordPress (Gutenberg) is highly desired.
- Proficient in WordPress theme and block accessibility.
- Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, React (Gutenberg), ES6+.
- Proficient in MySQL.
- Strong understanding of version control tools, such as Git.
- Proficiency with modern team and project management tools like Jira and Slack.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Knowledge of front-end testing and tooling.
- Understanding of npm task runners such as WebPack.
- Must be a US citizen and able to obtain a security clearance.
- Understanding of Python classes and development.
Bonus Experience:
- WP CLI experience.
- WP VIP experience (Docker / WP VIP CLI).
- Python experience for data extraction and migration to Gutenberg.
Skills Required
- Strong understanding of WordPress APIs and theme hierarchy
- Custom Gutenberg block development experience
- AEM experience or certification
- Experience migrating websites to WordPress with Gutenberg
- Proficiency in WordPress theme and block accessibility
- Expertise in HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, React, and ES6+
- Proficiency with MySQL
- Strong understanding of Git or similar version control tools
- Proficiency with Jira, Slack, and modern team and project management tools
- Excellent documentation skills
- Knowledge of front-end testing and tooling
- Understanding of npm task runners such as Webpack
- US citizenship
- Ability to obtain a security clearance
- Understanding of Python classes and development
- WP-CLI experience
- WP VIP experience, including Docker and WP VIP CLI
- Python experience for data extraction and Gutenberg migration
What We Do
The largest federal agencies, Fortune 1000 companies, and emerging tech startups trust Mobomo to build elegant solutions to solve their complex digital problems. As a full-service DevOps agency Mobomo has helped revolutionize the digital federal and commercial landscape through our innovative designs of high performing websites and applications that are engineered to fit the unique needs of each of our customers. Through a collaborative, consultative process, we use cutting-edge DevOps techniques to deliver mobile, web, and cloud solutions that are integrated with our proven Agile software development methodology. Our unique approach to conceiving, building, and delivering mission-critical products that people love to use. It’s fast, it’s focused, and most importantly, it’s effective.
