WordPress Developer at Awesome Motive

About the role

We are looking for a skilled WordPress Developer to join a fully remote, distributed team at Awesome Motive. You will build and maintain WordPress plugins and platform features, fix bugs, improve performance, and help scale systems that reach millions of users. This role blends front end and back end work, and requires availability for meetings during a portion of the 9am - 5pm ET operating window.

Key responsibilities

• Triage, scope, implement, test, and ship new product features and plugin addons.
• Refactor legacy code with care for backwards compatibility and maintainability.
• Write clean, well documented PHP and JavaScript code and extend build tooling with gulp or webpack as needed.
• Integrate and consume third party APIs such as Stripe, Drip, and Zapier.
• Perform peer code review via GitHub pull requests and collaborate with colleagues using chat, audio, and video.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues, and contribute to documentation and runbooks.

Requirements

• Professional experience building WordPress plugins and knowledge of WordPress architecture and standards.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP and MySQL, using modern PHP practices such as OOP, autoloading, namespacing, and interfaces.
• Strong JavaScript skills including vanilla JS, jQuery and modern ES6 patterns.
• Experience with package managers like Composer and NPM, and build tools like gulp or webpack.
• Familiarity with Git and GitHub workflows.
• Experience working remotely or as a freelancer, and reliable internet and computer for audio/video meetings.
• Availability to participate in meetings during a portion of the 9am - 5pm ET timeframe.

Nice to have

• Experience with VueJS or React.
• Ecommerce experience with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, Stripe, or PayPal.
• DevOps or infrastructure management experience.

About Awesome Motive

Awesome Motive is a fast growing, bootstrapped company with a fully distributed team across multiple countries. We focus on building valuable web products and tools that reach a large audience, and we prioritize craftsmanship, communication, and autonomy.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and compensation.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits for full time U.S. employees and location specific health coverage for many international hires.
• Paid parental leave and flexible PTO after 90 days.
• Learning and development reimbursements and technology stipends.
• Company retreats and team meetups with travel covered.
• Home office and equipment support, anniversary and welcome gifts.

How to apply

If this role excites you, submit an application and include a thoughtful cover letter addressing:

• Your WordPress plugin development experience.
• Your favorite WordPress hook or function and why.
• Links to code samples or profiles such as GitHub, WordPress.org, or a personal website.

Proofread your submission and highlight relevant experience and examples. Strong candidates will be contacted for the next steps.