<div class="textLayer"><div class="textLayer"><p>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.</p><p>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 <strong>as a framework and codebase</strong> (not a plugin/theme admin job). You’ll build custom functionality, extend core behavior, and ship clean, well-tested PHP that scales.</p><p> </p><p></p><h3><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h3><ul><li>Develop and maintain complex web applications using WordPress. </li><li>Work on a large-scale system. Making it faster, more scalable and fault-tolerant.</li><li>Communicate effectively across internal and vendor teams to identify and resolve issues quickly and efficiently. </li><li>Eager to collaborate and participate in discussions about system architecture, and/or design. </li><li>Review and improve source code written by developers to meet the project coding standards and maintain the quality bar.</li><li>Juggle current tasks with incoming tasks in a fast-paced priority-based environment.</li><li>Contribute towards the improvement of Engineering discipline through leadership and mentorship.</li></ul><h3> </h3><h3><strong>Qualifications</strong></h3><ul><li>5+ years professional <strong>WordPress-focused</strong> development, writing custom code (not plugin assembly).</li><li>Strong PHP with deep knowledge of <strong>WordPress architecture</strong> (hooks, custom functionality, core internals).</li><li>Solid experience with <strong>Unit Testing</strong> (e.g., PHPUnit) and a clean-code mindset (SOLID, design patterns).</li><li>Competent with <strong>JavaScript/React/HTML/CSS</strong> to implement end-to-end features.</li><li>Proficiency with <strong>Git</strong> and modern collaborative workflows.</li><li>Proven experience working in <strong>remote, distributed teams</strong> with strong English communication (spoken/written).</li><li>Strong <strong>ownership</strong> mentality—sees features into production and supports post-release behavior (on-call culture as needed).</li><li><strong>Time-zone overlap:</strong> ~4 hours with Doha (GMT+3); preference for candidates <strong>behind</strong> Doha time (e.g., Americas) for better cross-team coverage.<br><br></li></ul><h3><strong>Preferred Skills</strong></h3><ul><li>Experience with <strong>Gutenberg</strong> block development.</li><li>Familiarity with <strong>cloud platforms</strong> (GCP/Azure preferred; AWS transferable).</li><li>Experience with <strong>Docker</strong>, build tooling, and Agile practices.</li><li>Exposure to <strong>Node.js/GraphQL</strong> and/or accessibility standards.</li><li>Comfort using <strong>AI-assisted tooling</strong> (Copilot, prompt engineering) to accelerate high-quality delivery.</li></ul><p> </p><h3><strong>Our recruitment process</strong></h3><ul><li>Recruiter Screen</li><li>Technical Interview</li><li>Client Interview I</li><li>Client Interview II</li></ul><p>We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.</p><p> </p><p></p><h3><strong>What We Offer</strong></h3><ul><li>Totally remote, full time (40h/week)</li><li>Flexible work hours </li><li>Contractor agreement</li><li>Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice</li><li>Availability: 4 hours overlapping with Doha, Qatar.</li></ul></div></div>