Senior WordPress Engineer
HostGator
Who we are.
Newfold Digital is a leading web technology company serving millions of customers globally. Our customers know us through our robust portfolio of brands. We have some of the industry's most prominent and storied go-to-market brands, including Bluehost, HostGator, Domain.com, Markmonitor, Network Solutions, Register.com and Web.com. We help customers of all sizes build a digital presence that delivers results. With our extensive product offerings and personalized support, we take pride in collaborating with our customers to serve their online presence needs. The strength of our company lives in the intersection of our people, our customers, and our brands.
What you’ll do & how you’ll make your mark.
The Senior WordPress Engineer will work with a high-performance team of software engineers to design & develop world-class, highly available, scalable & reliable products and distributed software solutions.
Who you are:
Your strengths lie in complex WordPress plugin development, high-performance frontends, automated testing, and proficiency in Git and design patterns. You'll contribute to a dynamic team, applying OOP principles, prioritizing tasks, and enhancing automation collaboratively.
Strong interpersonal communication skills (listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to collaborate effectively in a diverse, team-oriented environment alongside engineers, product managers, and other team members.
5+ years in a professional software engineer role with extensive experience in PHP, WordPress, React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Experience with complex WordPress plugin development
Experience with building a performant frontend (React and Tailwind would be a plus)
Experience with automated testing and tools like PHPUnit and Cypress
Experience with Git and continuous integration & continuous delivery
Understands common design patterns and when to use them.
Thrive in a remote work environment through self-motivation and organizational skills.
Understand requirements, own, collaborate, and quickly deliver new features and services.
Apply OOP concepts to build loosely coupled, scalable applications based on WordPress and Laravel.
Participate in the entire product lifecycle – design, documentation, coding, testing and deployment.
Participate in the prioritization, scoping, and scheduling processes for new products and features.
Continuously learn new technologies and best practices, sharing your experience and knowledge with the team and fellow engineers at Newfold.
Build platforms, frameworks, APIs, libraries, and automated tools to streamline issue resolution, as well as the development and deployment of new features and changes.
Nice to Haves:
Have built integrations with the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg)
Experience with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers
Experience with Laravel
Experience with the design and development of RESTful APIs
Knowledge of package managers, such as Composer and NPM
What you'll do:
Work with a high-performance team of software engineers to design & develop world-class, highly available, scalable & reliable products and distributed software solutions.
Understand requirements, own, collaborate, and quickly deliver new features and services.
Apply OOP concepts to build loosely coupled, scalable applications based on WordPress and Laravel.
Participate in the entire product lifecycle – design, documentation, coding, testing and deployment.
Participate in the prioritization, scoping, and scheduling processes for new products and features.
Continuously learn new technologies and best practices, sharing your experience and knowledge with the team and fellow engineers at Newfold.
Build platforms, frameworks, APIs, libraries, and automated tools to streamline issue resolution, as well as the development and deployment of new features and changes.
Why you’ll love us.
We’ve evolved; we provide three work environment scenarios. You can feel like a Newfolder in a work-from-home, hybrid or work-from-the-office environment.
Work-life balance. Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well.
We celebrate one another’s differences. We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees. We have 20 + affinity groups where you can network and connect with Newfolders globally.
We care about you. We provide excellent Health Insurance options to fit you, HSA, Medical, Dental, Vision, Matching 401K, Life/AD&D/STD/LTD, Tuition Reimbursement, Pet Insurance, Generous vacation policy, and much more!
Where can we take you? We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with #teamnewfold!
Employment with Newfold Digital is at-will and nothing in this Job Description should be interpreted or construed to alter the at-will employment relationship.
This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.