Senior WordPress Developer

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Senior WordPress Developer| Freelance contract | Athens - GR

As a member of our development team, you will play a key role in helping to develop enterprise-level WordPress  solutions, supporting large user-base installations with complex business rules – projects ranging from international portals to large scale distribution modules, used by the generic community.

As a Senior WordPress Developer, you will support the team in their continued learning and development, through sharing experiences, presenting on topics, and mentoring specific skills. Alongside this, you will also be responsible for leading architectural decisions and choosing approaches to ensure the team delivers high quality software.

In this role you will develop enterprise-level WordPress solutions to support large user-base installations and complex business rules. 

Key responsibilities involve:
• Develop new WordPress functionality, configure installations, and select plugins;
• Troubleshoot, investigate, and fix issues within the WordPress environment;
• Lead code reviews and pair programming activities;
• Participate in project, sprint, and client meetings;
• Provide guidance and support within the team, acting as a mentor and coach;
• Lead architectural decisions to ensure high-quality software delivery.

• Minimum of 5 years in WordPress or PHP development;

• Strong understanding of modern object oriented PHP and web performance optimization;

• Proficiency in creating unit-tested solutions and following clean coding practices (e.g., SOLID principles);

• Experience with enterprise-scale WordPress solutions and CI/CD practices;

• Proved experience with WordPress custom plugin development and with WordPress REST APIs to introduce new endpoints for registering new custom post types and fields. Experience wit WordPress Gutenberg blocks is a must.

Additional Qualifications:

• Familiarity with technologies like Elasticsearch or Varnish;

• Knowledge of Trunk-Based Development: Understanding of how to work in a high-collaboration, fast-paced environment where changes are frequently merged to the main branch;

• Experience with CI/CD Tools: Familiarity with tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, for setting up pipelines;

• Scripting and Automation: Ability to write and maintain scripts that automate testing, building, and deployment processes;

• Ability to lead and make decisions;

• Strong communication skills for mentoring and presentations;

• Passion for continuous improvement and learning within the WordPress ecosystem.

What is in it for you?

• You will have the opportunity to grow your skill set within the WordPress ecosystem, as well as the potential to broaden your outlook to other server-side frameworks, and front-end technologies.
• You will be part of a fast paced, collaborative learning environment

Why Trasys Greece?

• Strong team spirit attitude.
• Dynamic, intelligent, agile and talented teams.
• Large-scale challenging international projects.
• Allows you to take the ownership of your work from the beginning, having specific responsibilities.
• Active presence in various IT communities (MoT, Angular, JHUG, etc.).

Trasys Greece, part of NRB Group, is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.