Senior WordPress Developer and Digital Marketing Technical Lead
We are looking for an elite senior-level WordPress developer who also has a strong understanding of digital marketing to join our digital marketing agency.
We want someone whose skills place them among the top 5% of WordPress developers. You must be able to solve complex development and digital marketing challenges, lead and train a development team, review other developers’ work, and create the systems we need to scale.
This is a hands-on leadership position. You will still be expected to write code, troubleshoot difficult problems, and personally take ownership of important projects. We do not want a manager who is no longer involved in the work. We want a highly skilled developer who leads by example and makes the entire team better.
This is not simply a website-building position, and it is not for someone whose experience is limited to installing themes, plugins, or using page builders. We need a true development professional who understands how websites support SEO, paid advertising, lead generation, conversion tracking, and business growth.
You must understand both sides: how to build a website correctly and how that website fits into a complete digital marketing strategy.
Position Details
- Full-time salaried position
- Starting salary of $75,000 to $100,000 per year, based on experience
- Paid time off
- Primarily a work-from-home position
- Applicants must currently live in Colorado
- Occasional in-person meetings may be required
- Digital Marketing Agency Experience Is Required
You must have previous experience working for a digital marketing or website-development agency. You must be comfortable managing multiple client websites, priorities, deadlines, and requests at the same time.
You should understand the speed, communication, organization, and accountability required in an agency environment. Applicants without agency experience will not be considered.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Building fast, responsive, conversion-focused WordPress websites
- Developing custom WordPress themes, templates, blocks, plugins, and functionality
- Building with Kadence, Gutenberg, and fully custom-coded solutions
- Creating custom WordPress dashboards and admin experiences
- Creating scalable website architecture, page hierarchy, navigation, and URL structures
- Building high-converting landing pages for Google Ads, Meta Ads, SEO, and other campaigns
- Understanding the differences between SEO pages, service pages, location pages, and paid-advertising landing pages
- Setting up forms, calls, online scheduling, lead tracking, and conversion events
- Installing and configuring Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Google Ads tracking, Meta Pixel, and other marketing platforms
- Testing tracking to confirm leads and conversions are being reported accurately
- Connecting WordPress websites with CRMs, call-tracking platforms, scheduling systems, APIs, and marketing automation tools
- Implementing advanced technical and on-page SEO requirements
- Improving Core Web Vitals, page speed, mobile performance, accessibility, and user experience
- Managing domains, DNS records, hosting accounts, SSL certificates, CDNs, and website migrations
- Configuring and troubleshooting A, CNAME, MX, TXT, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records
- Setting up development, staging, and production hosting environments
- Troubleshooting complex theme, plugin, tracking, hosting, DNS, database, email-delivery, and server issues
- Managing website launches, deployments, backups, security, and version control
- Reviewing code and development work completed by other team members
- Leading, training, and mentoring developers
- Establishing clear development standards, documentation, testing, and quality-control processes
- Improving project estimates, workflows, communication, and launch procedures
- Helping hire and onboard additional developers as the department grows
- Working closely with our SEO, paid advertising, design, content, and account-management teams
Strong Digital Marketing Knowledge Is Required
You must understand digital marketing best practices and how development decisions affect marketing performance.
This includes:
- Conversion-focused website and landing-page development
- SEO-friendly website architecture and page hierarchy
- Technical and on-page SEO
- Google Ads and Meta Ads landing-page best practices
- Lead-generation forms and conversion paths
- Call, form, scheduling, and campaign tracking
- Google Tag Manager setup and troubleshooting
- Google Analytics 4 setup and event tracking
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Meta Pixel and Conversions API implementation
- UTM parameters and campaign attribution
- CRM and marketing-platform integrations
- A/B testing and conversion-rate optimization
- Mobile user experience
- Page speed and Core Web Vitals
- Local SEO and multi-location website structure
You should be able to recognize when a website or landing page may look good but is technically weak, poorly structured for SEO, difficult to track, or unlikely to convert visitors into leads.
Advanced Technical SEO Experience Is Required
You must be highly skilled in technical SEO implementation, including:
- Crawlability and indexation
- Canonicals and duplicate-content prevention
- Redirects and redirect mapping
- Robots.txt and XML sitemaps
- Schema markup and structured data
- Metadata, headings, internal linking, and image optimization
- SEO-friendly URL structures
- Local-business and multi-location schema
- Website migrations without losing rankings or tracking
- Google Search Console setup and troubleshooting
- Core Web Vitals and page-speed improvements
- Mobile-first development
- Finding and correcting technical SEO problems
Required Development Experience
- At least seven years of professional WordPress development experience
- Previous digital marketing or website-development agency experience
- Extensive experience building custom WordPress themes and plugins
- Advanced knowledge of WordPress core, hooks, filters, REST APIs, databases, and security
- Expert-level PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and MySQL skills
- Strong experience with Gutenberg and custom blocks
- Strong experience with Kadence
- Experience with Git and professional development workflows
- Advanced experience with hosting, DNS management, domain configuration, SSL, CDNs, and website migrations
- Experience managing multiple websites and client projects
- Strong understanding of responsive development and cross-browser testing
- Ability to write clean, secure, efficient, and well-documented code
- Advanced technical SEO and conversion-tracking experience
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to accurately estimate projects and meet deadlines
- Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to nontechnical team members
- Proven experience leading, training, and mentoring developers
- Ability to take complete ownership without constant direction
Preferred Experience
- Experience building or scaling a website-development department
- Experience hiring and managing developers or outside contractors
- Experience with Advanced Custom Fields, WP-CLI, Composer, and modern deployment workflows
- Experience with Cloudflare, caching systems, CDNs, and managed WordPress hosting
- Experience building healthcare, dental, medical, or local-business websites
- Experience with WCAG accessibility requirements
- Experience building reusable agency systems while keeping each website custom
- Experience with call-tracking platforms, GoHighLevel, CRMs, and marketing automation
- Experience working directly with SEO and paid-advertising teams
Who We’re Looking For
We need a true professional who thinks beyond completing assigned development tasks.
The right person will:
- Operate at an elite level in both WordPress development and digital marketing technology
- Lead by example and remain actively involved in development work
- Take complete ownership of projects
- Produce clean, dependable, high-level work
- Think about SEO, paid advertising, conversions, tracking, security, speed, and user experience
- Catch problems before a website or campaign launches
- Test their work thoroughly instead of assuming it works
- Review other developers’ work and hold the team to high standards
- Train team members and help them become better developers
- Communicate problems early and clearly
- Create repeatable processes and documentation
- Recommend better solutions when they see an opportunity
- Help us scale without sacrificing quality
- Be comfortable working in a fast-moving agency environment
What Success Looks Like
Success means our websites and landing pages are launched on time, built correctly, properly tracked, technically sound, optimized for search engines, and designed to convert visitors into leads.
It also means building and leading a website-development team that can scale without sacrificing customization, performance, security, or quality.
How to Apply
Please provide a cover letter and resume outlining your relevant WordPress development, digital marketing, leadership, and agency experience.
Applicants who also provide a Loom video introducing themselves and explaining why they are a great fit for this position will be reviewed first.
Applicants whose experience is limited to installing themes, modifying templates, or using page builders will not be considered. Applicants without digital marketing or website-development agency experience will not be considered.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
- Are you currently living in the state of Colorado?
Ability to Commute:
- Englewood, CO 80112 (Preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Englewood, CO 80112
