Senior PHP Developer

USC Only

6-12 month contract potential contract to hire

up to $75/hr. DOQ

Remote: California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin.

What would you do in this role?

We are looking for a savvy, talented software engineer to join our team as a contractor. We live and breathe online, so we constantly step up our site game. With your broad experience, you have solid, hands-on work experience building beautiful, fast, and functional websites, and you enjoy thinking outside the box and collaborating with those around you. We are a highly motivated, highly valued, motley crew, each with unique perspectives we bring to the team, and we play a critical role in the success of our brand across multiple teams.

Okay… but what does this role actually do?

• Contribute to a large PHP 8 codebase focused around leveraging and extending WordPress Multisite as a CMS.
• Work with TypeScript, React, and other front-end technologies (though this isn’t usually our primary focus).
• Write clean and efficient code.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional groups to drive action and build great, useful features.
• Build consensus with the team for new technical approaches and ideas.
• Learn, benefit, and leverage generative AI systems.
• Guide the development process from determining the scope to implementing a solution and refining it with stakeholder feedback before shipping to production.
• Provide feedback on code via GitHub pull requests.
• Keep abreast of new technologies and suggest improvements to the development process.

These are the must-haves for this role:

• Proven track record in a senior development role with a focus on PHP, WordPress, and various flavors of JavaScript (Vanilla, jQuery, TypeScript, React, Vue.js)
• Strong background and understanding of extending WordPress via its pub/sub model as well as OOP principles and design patterns in PHP
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and integrating third-party services into WordPress
• Strong written communication skills
• Familiar with Git and GitHub flows
• Experience with unit testing and integration testing methodologies
• Familiarity with composing and managing PHP dependencies
• Understanding of web security vulnerabilities and experience implementing security measures
• Experience with AWS (especially Lambda, SQS)
• Excellent analytical skills to troubleshoot and solve complex technical issues