Senior WordPress Engineer

Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift, cloud-native development, cloud cost optimization, and migration services. As a consulting company, we are often faced with the challenge to create an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that, we have created a secondary support business that runs an engineering talent network and provides staffing services.

Our client is an international media company, and they are looking for a Senior WordPress Engineer to help them evolve a large-scale, mission-driven publishing platform used by millions. This role is hands-on with WordPress as a framework and codebase (not a plugin/theme admin job). You’ll build custom functionality, extend core behavior, and ship clean, well-tested PHP that scales.

• Develop and maintain complex web applications using WordPress. 
• Work on a large-scale system. Making it faster, more scalable and fault-tolerant.
• Communicate effectively across internal and vendor teams to identify and resolve issues quickly and efficiently. 
• Eager to collaborate and participate in discussions about system architecture, and/or design. 
• Review and improve source code written by developers to meet the project coding standards and maintain the quality bar.
• Juggle current tasks with incoming tasks in a fast-paced priority-based environment.
• Contribute towards the improvement of Engineering discipline through leadership and mentorship.

• 5+ years professional WordPress-focused development, writing custom code (not plugin assembly).
• Strong PHP with deep knowledge of WordPress architecture (hooks, custom functionality, core internals).
• Solid experience with Unit Testing (e.g., PHPUnit) and a clean-code mindset (SOLID, design patterns).
• Competent with JavaScript/React/HTML/CSS to implement end-to-end features.
• Proficiency with Git and modern collaborative workflows.
• Proven experience working in remote, distributed teams with strong English communication (spoken/written).
• Strong ownership mentality—sees features into production and supports post-release behavior (on-call culture as needed).
• Time-zone overlap: ~4 hours with Doha (GMT+3); preference for candidates behind Doha time (e.g., Americas) for better cross-team coverage.

• Experience with Gutenberg block development.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP/Azure preferred; AWS transferable).
• Experience with Docker, build tooling, and Agile practices.
• Exposure to Node.js/GraphQL and/or accessibility standards.
• Comfort using AI-assisted tooling (Copilot, prompt engineering) to accelerate high-quality delivery.

• Recruiter Screen
• Technical Interview
• Client Interview I
• Client Interview II

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

• Totally remote, full time (40h/week)
• Flexible work hours 
• Contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice
• Availability: 4 hours overlapping with Doha, Qatar.