Senior WordPress Engineer (Remote – Philippines)

About usheru

usheru is a technology company specialising in websites, ticketing integrations and digital marketing solutions for live entertainment venues, visitor attractions and film distributors.

Our clients include leading visitor attractions, arenas, stadiums, film distributors, national film organisations and entertainment brands across Europe and North America. We build high-performance WordPress platforms that integrate with ticketing systems, CRM platforms and analytics tools, helping millions of visitors discover, plan and book experiences every year.

As we continue to grow, we're looking for an experienced WordPress Engineer to help us deliver new client projects while strengthening our support coverage for clients in the United States.

The Role

This is not a typical WordPress agency role.

You'll work on modern, custom-built WordPress platforms that power commercial websites where performance, SEO, analytics and conversion directly impact revenue.

You'll split your time between:

• Delivering new websites and features
• Maintaining and improving existing client websites
• Developing reusable platform components
• Supporting production systems during our US support window

Our goal is to build a reusable platform rather than reinventing the wheel for every client, so you'll be encouraged to create high-quality plugins, tools and components that can be shared across multiple projects.

What You'll Do

• Build custom WordPress websites using Elementor and ACF
• Design and develop custom WordPress plugins
• Build reusable components that can be shared across multiple client websites
• Integrate third-party APIs and booking platforms
• Troubleshoot production issues and client support requests
• Improve website performance and Core Web Vitals
• Implement technical SEO best practices
• Support analytics and experimentation implementations
• Review code and contribute to engineering standards
• Help improve our internal WordPress platform and development processes

Required Experience

WordPress

• 5+ years of professional WordPress development
• Strong PHP experience
• Deep understanding of WordPress architecture and best practices
• Extensive experience developing custom WordPress plugins
• Experience building custom themes
• Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
• Elementor (including custom widgets and extending Elementor where appropriate)
• WP-CLI
• WordPress security best practices
• Experience maintaining production WordPress websites

Front-end

• HTML5
• Modern CSS

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• JavaScript (ES6+)
• Responsive development

Development

• Git
• REST APIs
• MySQL
• Linux command line
• Debugging production issues
• Experience working with remote teams

SEO, Performance & Optimisation

This is an important part of the role.

You don't need to be an SEO specialist, but you should understand how development decisions affect search visibility and conversions.

You should have experience with:

• Technical SEO best practices
• Core Web Vitals optimisation
• Website performance optimisation
• Caching strategies
• Structured data (Schema.org)
• Redirect management
• Crawlability and indexation
• Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO)
• A/B testing or experimentation concepts

Nice to Have

Experience with any of the following would be an advantage:

• Cloudflare
• AWS
• Google Analytics 4
• Google Tag Manager
• Accessibility (WCAG)
• Multilingual websites (WPML, Polylang or Weglot)
• CDN caching
• CI/CD pipelines
• Ticketing or booking platform integrations
• CRM integrations (HubSpot, Salesforce, etc.)

We're Looking For Someone Who

• Enjoys solving technical problems
• Writes clean, maintainable and well-documented code
• Thinks about long-term maintainability rather than quick fixes
• Understands how websites support business goals
• Can investigate issues independently
• Takes ownership of their work
• Is proactive about improving systems and processes
• Communicates clearly in English
• Enjoys collaborating with distributed teams

Bonus Points

You'll stand out if you've previously worked on websites that:

• Receive significant traffic
• Integrate with external APIs or booking systems
• Have measurable commercial KPIs
• Require high availability
• Support international audiences
• Are continuously improved through experimentation and optimisation

Working Hours

This position is based in the Philippines.

The working schedule is designed to provide support coverage for our North American clients while maintaining normal daytime working hours in the Philippines.

There will also be a short daily overlap with our European engineering team for collaboration and handovers.

Why Join usheru?

You'll work on technically interesting projects rather than assembling websites from templates.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Build products used by millions of visitors each year
• Develop reusable WordPress platform components
• Work with modern APIs and third-party integrations
• Improve performance, SEO and conversion for high-profile entertainment brands
• Influence engineering decisions and technical direction
• Work with a collaborative international engineering team
• Grow into a key technical role as the company expands

Application Process

Please include:

• Your CV
• GitHub profile (if available)
• Portfolio of recent WordPress projects
• One or two examples of custom WordPress plugins you have developed, including a short explanation of what they do and the technical challenges involved.
• A brief description of the most technically challenging WordPress project you've worked on.

Technical Assessment

Rather than asking candidates to build a website from scratch, shortlisted applicants will complete a practical exercise based on a real-world scenario.

The assessment will involve improving and debugging an existing WordPress project and may include tasks such as:

• Extending or fixing a custom plugin
• Diagnosing a production issue
• Resolving a performance problem
• Fixing an SEO or accessibility issue
• Implementing a small feature following existing coding standards

This exercise is designed to reflect the type of work you'll be doing day-to-day at usheru.

Salary

USD $3,000–$4,500 per month, depending on experience.