Senior WordPress Developer

3w3 weeks ago

Lateral Group

RO · Full-time · €36,000 – €72,000

About this role

Lateral stands for technology excellence. We’re a profitable, award-winning design and technology company with over 20 years of experience launching bold ventures and transforming businesses. A globally distributed team of 200+ experts pursues continuous quality.

As a Senior WordPress Developer, you will design, build, extend, and maintain high-quality WordPress solutions that look great, load fast, and scale easily. Own end-to-end development of custom sites, themes, and plugins from architecture to polish. Translate client goals into performant implementations.

Collaborate directly with clients to understand needs and guide best practices. Work closely with design, content, and technical teams on APIs, services, and functionalities. Uphold standards of engineering excellence with thoughtful decisions and clean code.

We have a bias for action and results, work on time, on budget, on quality. Care deeply about work and each other, do things right, keep improving. Take ownership with room to run ideas and build trust through execution.

Obsessed with agility, adapt processes to fit problems. Spot gaps, connect dots, anticipate needs, and move fast. Feedback fuels progress over perfection in a team that iterates and reflects.

Requirements

Deep WordPress expertise for designing and building custom solutions
Proficiency in developing custom themes and plugins
Strong skills in PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Experience optimizing WordPress performance and scalability
Knowledge of accessibility standards and responsive design
Ability to integrate APIs and third-party services
Skill in troubleshooting complex WordPress issues
Commitment to clean, maintainable, and well-documented code

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end development of custom WordPress sites, themes, and plugins from technical architecture to final polish
Translate client goals and designs into performant, maintainable, and scalable WordPress implementations
Collaborate directly with clients to understand needs, present technical solutions clearly, and guide toward best-practice approaches
Build reusable components, optimize performance, ensure accessibility, and maintain pixel-perfect execution across devices
Work closely with design, content, and technical teams to integrate APIs, third-party services, marketing tools, and custom functionalities
Troubleshoot complex issues quickly and communicate solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Manage staging/production deployments, version control, environment setups, and QA processes to ensure high reliability
Uphold Lateral’s standards of engineering excellence with thoughtful decisions, crisp execution, and clean, well-reviewed code