WordPress Plugin Developer

We are looking for a plugin developer who can own production plugins: the ones running on 100,000+ active installs across 40+ countries You build the feature, write the tests, and ship it through review, then watch how it behaves in the wild You will work across the plugin line and its REST and admin surfaces The work spans custom post types, custom tables, REST endpoints, admin UIs, cron, and the licensing layer that powers updates Responsibilities What you will do day to day Four areas of the work The split shifts week to week depending on what is shipping, but all four are part of the role 01 Build and maintain the plugin line Develop features and fixes across the plugin catalog Hooks, custom post types, custom tables, REST endpoints, admin screens, and cron Your code reaches six-figure install counts, so correctness and backward compatibility matter 100,000+ installs depend on it 02 Build REST and admin surfaces Every data feature ships with three entry points: a frontend UX for members, an admin UI for the site owner, and a REST API to read and populate it You wire all three, not just one Frontend + admin + REST, every feature 03 Own licensing and updates Work with the EDD-SL licensing layer that powers plugin updates and customer entitlements Updates have to roll out cleanly to live sites without breaking the ones already running EDD-SL licensing + clean updates 04 Production-quality, reviewed code Write code that passes WPCS and PHPStan, escapes and sanitizes correctly, and ships with PHPUnit coverage Every change goes through senior review before it tags WPCS + PHPStan + PHPUnit + review Requirements What we need you to bring Four hard requirements Without these the role will not be a fit With them, we want to talk 01 PHP and the WordPress plugin API Strong PHP plus hands-on plugin development: hooks, the options and metadata APIs, custom tables, and the plugin lifecycle You have built or substantially maintained a plugin before Plugin development experience required 02 REST API and the block editor Comfortable building REST endpoints and the JavaScript that consumes them, including block editor integrations Our plugins are increasingly JS-driven on the front end REST + JS + blocks 03 Security fundamentals Nonces, capability checks, escaping, sanitization, and prepared queries You write secure code by habit, not as a review-time afterthought Secure code by default 04 Write reviewable code You scope a change, write it cleanly with tests, and explain it in the pull request You take review feedback without ego and you write code the next developer can read Tested code, explained in the PR Nice to have Things that move you to the top of the stack Not required, but if you have any of these, mention them in the cover letter 01 BuddyPress or WooCommerce internals You know how groups, activity, and components, or carts, orders, and hooks, actually work under the hood Our plugins live in these ecosystems Ecosystem internals 02 PHPUnit and CI You write unit tests and are comfortable in a CI pipeline with PHPStan and WPCS gates Our plugins run a PHP and WordPress version matrix on every push PHPUnit + CI pipelines 03 Performance at scale You have profiled and fixed slow queries, N+1 patterns, or caching gaps on a real site with real traffic, not just in theory Real performance work Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.