WordPress Developer

Summary

Andersen is hiring a WordPress Developer for a media company. The role focuses on developing and maintaining a news-focused website.

The customer is a fast-growing media and performance-marketing ecosystem specializing in the crypto, finance, technology, and business sectors. Founded in 2021, it operates a diverse portfolio of well-known digital platforms that reach global audiences, foster trust, and drive engagement beyond traditional search rankings. Leveraging data-driven strategies, creative storytelling, affiliate partnerships, and creator marketplaces, the company delivers measurable, impactful marketing results.

The project is essentially a news-focused website designed to deliver timely, relevant, and engaging content to a broad audience.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and continuously improving the company's WordPress website, ensuring security, compliance, and high availability.
• Managing both back-end and front-end development autonomously, delivering solutions that align with business goals and user expectations.
• Optimizing and troubleshooting custom WordPress themes and plugins.
• Collaborating closely with internal stakeholders, product managers, and designers to maintain and evolve website layout, content structure, performance, and appearance.
• Proactively monitoring website health, performance, and uptime, swiftly diagnosing and resolving issues.
• Ensuring comprehensive documentation of technical processes, architecture decisions, and operational procedures.
• Conducting regular website performance audits and optimizations to ensure a high SEO benchmark score.
• Refactoring legacy code to improve maintainability, performance, and security as required.
• Providing advanced troubleshooting and support in high-pressure scenarios, minimizing downtime and user impact.

Requirements

• Professional WordPress development experience in large-scale or enterprise-level websites for 4+ years.
• Proven ability to manage deeply customized WordPress setups, including non-standard implementations and legacy codebases.
• Strong proficiency in custom plugin and theme development.
• Expert knowledge of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for managing complex content structures.
• Deep understanding of PHP development adhering to PHP Standards Recommendations (PSRs) and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles.
• Strong SQL/MySQL skills, including database performance tuning and complex queries.
• Thorough understanding of front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, responsive design principles).
• Solid understanding of website performance optimization and implications on SEO.
• In-depth knowledge of HTTP protocols, browser caching, and CDN / Cloutfront integration.
• Experience working with Git version control, pull requests, and rigorous code review processes.
• Familiarity with Docker, AWS, command line operations, and Bash scripting.
• Ability to operate autonomously, handle complexity, and maintain composure under pressure.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a proactive and performance-driven approach.
• Exceptional collaboration, communication skills, and openness to constructive feedback.
• Level of English – from Intermediate and above.

Desired skills

• Experience with continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with infrastructure optimization for WordPress (caching, CDN, load balancing).
• Familiarity with WordPress VIP hosting or other enterprise-level hosting providers.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, or related fields.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!