Senior Full Stack WordPress Engineer

Summary

Join Kanopi Studios as a Senior Full Stack WordPress Engineer and contribute to building exceptional digital experiences for our mission-driven clients. This fully remote role, open to US and Canada residents, involves hands-on development, collaboration, and strategic improvements on WordPress sites. You will craft custom solutions, build themes and plugins, and work with modern development practices. The position requires strong problem-solving skills, expertise in WordPress, and experience in an agency environment. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience, ranging from $81,000 to $117,400. Kanopi offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of related WordPress experience
• Have worked in an agency environment, preferably in multiple time zones
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends
• Show strong problem-solving abilities, intelligence, and initiative
• Have strong debugging skills
• Demonstrate knowledge of modern development workflows, including command line, gitflow, containers, and dev/stage/prod environments
• Deeply understand modern web standards and technologies
• Exhibit thoughtful, inclusive, and articulate communication skills in writing and in person
• Have a BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• Understand our clients' business goals and needs for the sites we support
• Identify issues, research solutions, and advise on best practices aligned with client goals
• Explain complex technical concepts in clear, accessible language for non-technical audiences
• Make smart technical design decisions and trade-offs considering our clients’ business requirements
• Expertly craft custom front- or back-end solutions in WordPress
• Build, adapt, and configure WordPress sites using modern development practices
• Work with existing WordPress codebases to extend and improve them
• Develop native Gutenberg blocks using React and build custom themes and plugins
• Create HTML templates and patterns optimized for full-site editing
• Perform end-to-end responsibilities for engineering work on complex projects
• Contribute to our common code libraries
• Write tests and contribute to test cases
• Plan and execute new features on existing sites
• Build against an established suite of user stories for large-scale projects
• Proactively identify issues and technical limitations and communicate clearly across agency functional areas
• Clearly document code and processes to communicate your technical decisions
• Mentor new and developing engineers

Preferred Qualifications

Have some Next.js or Vue experience

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, professional, remote workspace, and other fun benefits for all full time US and Canadian employees