About the role
We run a high-traffic WooCommerce store backed by a growing suite of custom Laravel applications — a rewards engine, a shipping-protection claims platform, and an analytics layer — plus the WordPress plugins and theme that power the storefront. This is not a maintenance-only WordPress job. It is a full-stack role for someone who is equally comfortable in a WordPress plugin and a Laravel service, who understands how a live ecommerce system behaves under real traffic, and who communicates clearly in a fast, async, remote team.
If you are passionate about building and maintaining production ecommerce systems end to end — and you take real ownership of what you ship — this is for you. If your experience is front-end theming or WordPress in isolation, it is not.
What you'll work on
- Custom WordPress/WooCommerce plugin development and storefront functionality on a live, high-volume store
- Custom Laravel application development (PHP 8.4, Filament admin panels, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis queues) — the apps behind rewards, claims, and analytics
- Building, maintaining, and debugging API integrations (payment gateways, shipping/fulfillment, email/marketing, and internal service-to-service webhooks)
- Server-side operations on Laravel Forge / Vultr / DigitalOcean — deploys, queue workers, environment config, performance tuning
- Site performance and caching (LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, Redis) as we add features
- Cloudflare configuration — WAF rules, security posture, and understanding the difference between human and machine traffic
- Observability and reliability — monitoring, alerting, and writing code that fails safely when a dependency is down
- Git-based workflow — feature branches, pull requests, code review, staging-before-production discipline
- Testing and QA across staging and production
Required qualifications
- 7+ years professional experience across PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and jQuery
- Deep WooCommerce and WordPress expertise — plugin architecture, hooks, the REST/Store API, and how WooCommerce behaves at scale
- Strong Laravel experience — you can build and own a Laravel application, not just patch one
- Proficient with Git and a PR-based team workflow; able to show a GitHub profile or equivalent history
- Comfortable on the command line / SSH; able to manage a Linux server and run shell operations safely
- Experience building and maintaining API integrations and webhooks
- A portfolio of plugins or applications you have built and maintained over time (not just shipped once)
What actually makes someone succeed here
We are a small, fast-moving, fully remote team that lives in Slack. The single most important trait after technical skill is communication and self-accountability:
- Responsive and present in async channels. We coordinate, review, and handle incidents in Slack. Going dark is the one thing that doesn't work here.
- Proactive updates. You tell us what you're working on and flag blockers early, without being chased.
- Ownership under pressure. When production has a problem, you're reachable and you drive it — clear communication during an incident matters as much as the fix.
- Judgment about risk. You understand that this is live code touching real customer money, and you treat deploys, data migrations, and security accordingly.
- Detail-oriented, organized, able to prioritize and multitask against deadlines.
Nice to have
- Experience with Cloudflare (WAF, rules, security), Redis, and queue-based background processing
- Filament, or similar admin-panel frameworks
- Experience on a team preparing systems for due diligence / acquisition
- Ability to lead, establish process, and mentor — we value people who improve how the team works, not just the code
Tools we use
Slack, GitHub, Asana, Google Workspace (Sheets/Docs), Laravel Forge, Cloudflare.
Education & experience
- High school diploma or equivalent required; college degree a plus
- 7+ years in the required languages; demonstrated senior-level WordPress/WooCommerce and Laravel work
- Previous experience working within a team of developers using a formal Git workflow
To apply
Show us your work: a GitHub profile or equivalent, and a few plugins or applications you've built and maintained. Tell us about a production incident you owned end to end — what broke, how you communicated during it, and how you prevented it from recurring.
Pay: $60,000.00 - $72,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
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Work Location: Remote
