Lead WordPress & Frontend Developer (Remote, Contract)

Role overview Provide hands-on technical leadership for a multi-site web platform, owning code quality, release readiness, and ongoing improvements to performance, security, and maintainability. The role combines WordPress development and review of internal and vendor work with exploration of a possible React and Next.js direction.

Responsibilities - Own technical quality and release readiness across the main platform and regional sites. - Develop and improve WordPress themes, Advanced Custom Fields configurations, and custom PHP plugins. - Review code, proposed solutions, and estimates from developers and external vendors. - Set practical standards for code review, testing, security, and continuous integration and delivery. - Improve deployment workflows, CDN caching, and production reliability with DevOps colleagues. - Maintain marketing, analytics, tag management, and cookie-consent integrations. - Improve page speed, structured data, multilingual setup, sitemaps, and technical search optimization. - Contribute to a proof of concept and architecture choices for a potential React/Next.js platform.

Requirements - Strong WordPress development experience with PHP, custom themes, plugins, and ACF. - Production experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript. - Experience with WordPress Multisite, MySQL, and complex web platforms. - Working knowledge across development, testing, infrastructure, deployment, and production support. - Practical understanding of web security, performance, and maintainable architecture. - Experience reviewing developer work and improving code review, automated testing, or CI/CD practices. - Proactive ownership and sound judgment when using AI coding tools. - English proficiency at B2 level or higher for distributed-team collaboration.

Nice to have - Headless WordPress with Next.js, Node.js or NestJS, multilingual marketing sites, marketing technology integrations, or technical SEO/AEO.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote, long-term B2B contract with monthly compensation in USD based on experience. - Monday–Friday schedule, 1:00–9:00 pm EET, including a one-hour break; Fridays are shorter during summer. - Opportunity to influence platform architecture and access to AI development tools and subscriptions.