Web WordPress Developer (Remote – LATAM Preferred)
About Otte Polo Group:
The Otte Polo Group is a U.S.-based portfolio of service companies operating across technical support, customer experience, and third-party logistics. Our brands include Geeks on Site, Responsive Answering Service, and Phase V Fulfillment.
Our teams operate across the United States and globally, leveraging a distributed workforce to combine people, process, and technology to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Web WordPress Developer with 1–2 years of experience to support the development, maintenance, and optimization of multiple websites. This role combines hands-on page building using Elementor Pro with foundational WordPress development, including custom themes, plugins, and performance considerations.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working within existing codebases, follows best practices, and can balance speed and quality while collaborating with a broader development team.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain website pages using Elementor Pro, including sections, templates, and dynamic content elements.
- Develop and modify WordPress themes (child and custom) to support design and functionality requirements.
- Create and maintain basic WordPress plugins, including custom post types, taxonomies, shortcodes, widgets, and simple mu-plugins.
- Troubleshoot and resolve layout, functionality, and performance issues using browser DevTools and WordPress debugging techniques.
- Collaborate with the team to implement designs (PSD to WordPress) while ensuring consistency with existing code structure and functionality.
- Test all changes before deployment, follow coding standards, and document non-obvious decisions while proactively communicating blockers.
Requirements
- WordPress (1-2 years)
- Experience creating and modifying child themes and custom themes from scratch
- Basic plugin development: registering custom post types, taxonomies, shortcodes, widgets, and settings pages
- Must-use plugin (mu-plugin) development: understanding when and why to use mu-plugins, writing small utilities that load automatically
- Ability to work with WordPress hooks system (add_action, add_filter, remove_action)
- Elementor
- Proficient with Elementor Pro page builder: building pages, sections, columns, and widgets.
- Experience creating Elementor Theme Builder templates (headers, footers, archive pages, single posts).
- Ability to write custom CSS within Elementor sections and widgets.
- Understanding of how to extend Elementor via custom widgets (PHP-based).
- Familiarity with Dynamic Tags and conditions in Elementor Pro.
- Awareness of Elementor's impact on page performance and how to mitigate it.
- PSD to WordPress
- Basic FTP/SFTP and cPanel/hosting panel usage.
- Familiarity with browser DevTools for debugging layout and JavaScript issues.
- Comfortable working with page builders alongside custom code without breaking existing functionality.
- Soft Skills / Work Style
- Ability to follow existing code conventions and documentation.
- Communicates blockers and asks for help before spending too long stuck.
- Tests changes before pushing to production.
- Writes brief notes or comments for non-obvious code decisions.
Benefits
- Competitive monthly pay (based on experience and location).
- Core EST hours, Monday to Friday.
- 100% remote work.
- Independent contractor role.
- Opportunity to work across diverse brands and digital products.
Top Skills
What We Do
Geeks on Site provides onsite and remote computer repair and technical support, depending on each customer’s needs. The company’s experienced onsite technicians are available in more than 150 cities nationwide and stand ready to dispatch to homes and businesses within one business day, regardless of the issue at hand. For customers who need urgent assistance, Geeks on Site’s remote service team provides immediate support by phone around the clock. Geeks on Site is a full-spectrum technical support company. For residential users, its onsite computer repair and support services include: software repair, replacement, and troubleshooting; hardware repair, replacement, and troubleshooting; virus, spyware, and adware removal and cleanup; wireless network connection setup and troubleshooting; data recovery and system backup; user training for simple to advanced applications; and much more. Geeks on Site’s training services are designed for customers of all skill levels who wish to become more adept with technology. These services encompass a wide range of topics and applications, from courses on Windows updates; primers on various Microsoft Office suite applications and functions; and social media use and best practices. Geeks on Site’s business technology experts help small business owners and IT professionals with a wide range of IT-related matters as well, including: wireless router and firewall configuration; data backup and recovery solutions; server installs, and more. Geeks on Site also offers monthly maintenance plans that help individual and business customers maintain safe, efficient computer systems for years running. For a low fixed rate, each monthly plan includes unlimited phone support; remote preventive maintenance services and tutorials; expedited dispatch for issues that can’t be addressed remotely; and support for peripheral equipment such as printers and scanners.
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