Senior WordPress Engineer

HireHawk is a growing, globally minded staffing and recruitment company connecting skilled professionals with career opportunities across the U.S., Canada, and global remote markets. We believe great people are everywhere, and our work helps talented professionals build meaningful careers from anywhere in the world.

You will join a remote team that values ownership, clear communication, high standards, and practical problem-solving.

As Senior WordPress Engineer, you will own the build, structure, health, and scalability of HireHawk’s WordPress website. You will work closely with our designer, content team, and growth team to turn Figma designs and structured content into a fast, maintainable, SEO-ready website. This role is ideal for someone who can make strong technical decisions independently, prevent avoidable issues, and build systems that non-technical teammates can use confidently. You will have real ownership over the website architecture, deployment quality, performance, security basics, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities:

• Build a scalable WordPress website from the ground up using clean, maintainable front-end and backend development practices.
• Convert custom Figma designs into responsive, pixel-accurate WordPress pages across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
• Create reusable blocks, components, sections, templates, and backend content structures that help the team launch pages efficiently.
• Develop custom post types, taxonomies, Advanced Custom Fields, and dynamic templates for scalable content management.
• Build programmatic and templatized page systems that can support hundreds or thousands of landing pages over time.

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• Maintain strong technical SEO foundations, including URL structures, slugs, redirects, sitemap logic, and internal linking systems.
• Optimize website speed, database queries, caching, media handling, plugin usage, and template performance.
• Own day-to-day website health monitoring, first-line troubleshooting, uptime alerts, performance regressions, and issue escalation when needed.
• Configure and maintain Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, SSL, caching, firewall rules, security basics, and performance optimization.
• Manage Git-based version control, staging environments, code reviews, testing, and controlled production deployments.

Requirements

Must-Have:

• 5+ years of WordPress development experience.
• Strong experience building custom WordPress themes or heavily customized WordPress websites.

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• Proven experience with high-page-count, content-heavy, SEO-driven, high-traffic, or programmatic SEO websites.
• Strong working knowledge of PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and responsive development.
• Experience converting Figma or custom designs into production-ready WordPress pages.
• Experience with custom post types, taxonomies, Advanced Custom Fields, reusable templates, and scalable content structures.
• Experience using Git, staging environments, and disciplined staging-to-production deployment workflows.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with Gutenberg blocks, custom blocks, or structured page builder workflows.
• Experience configuring Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, SSL, caching, firewall rules, and basic security.
• Experience debugging WordPress errors, plugin conflicts, performance issues, hosting issues, and integration failures.
• Experience supporting form submissions, analytics tracking, technical SEO implementation, and website optimization.
• Experience working with remote growth, content, design, or marketing teams.