Senior WordPress Engineer Job at Virtasant, Austin, TX

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  • Virtasant
  • Austin, TX

Job Description

About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.

About the role

Our client is an international media company, and they are looking for a Senior WordPress Engineer to help them evolve a large-scale, mission-driven publishing platform used by millions. This role is hands-on with WordPress as a framework and codebase (not a plugin/theme admin job). You’ll build custom functionality, extend core behavior, and ship clean, well-tested PHP that scales.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop and maintain complex web applications using WordPress.
  • Work on a large-scale system. Making it faster, more scalable and fault-tolerant.
  • Communicate effectively across internal and vendor teams to identify and resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
  • Eager to collaborate and participate in discussions about system architecture, and/or design.
  • Review and improve source code written by developers to meet the project coding standards and maintain the quality bar.
  • Juggle current tasks with incoming tasks in a fast-paced priority-based environment.
  • Contribute towards the improvement of Engineering discipline through leadership and mentorship.

What We’re Looking For Must-Have Experience

  • 5+ years professional WordPress-focused development, writing custom code (not plugin assembly).
  • Strong PHP with deep knowledge of WordPress architecture (hooks, custom functionality, core internals).
  • Solid experience with Unit Testing (e.g., PHPUnit) and a clean-code mindset (SOLID, design patterns).
  • Competent with JavaScript/React/HTML/CSS to implement end-to-end features.
  • Proficiency with Git and modern collaborative workflows.
  • Proven experience working in remote, distributed teams with strong English communication (spoken/written).
  • Strong ownership mentality—sees features into production and supports post-release behavior (on-call culture as needed).


Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with Gutenberg block development.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP/Azure preferred; AWS transferable).
  • Experience with Docker , build tooling, and Agile practices.
  • Exposure to Node.js/GraphQL and/or accessibility standards.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted tooling (Copilot, prompt engineering) to accelerate high-quality delivery.

Tools and Environment

  • WordPress
  • PHP, WordPress architecture 
  • Unit Testing (e.g., PHPUnit)
  • JavaScript/React/HTML/CSS
  • Git

Our recruitment process

  • Recruiter Screen (30 min)
  • Technical Interview (30 min)
  • Client Interview I 
  • Client Interview II

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

What we offer

  • Totally remote, full time (40h/week)
  • Flexible work hours
  • Contractor agreement
  • Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice
  • Availability: 4 hours overlapping with Doha, Qatar.

Job Tags

Full time, For contractors, Remote work, Flexible hours,

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