Hiring: Senior WordPress Full-Stack Developer
Location: Boston, Massachusetts (Remote – Must be available during Eastern Time business hours with occasional participation in client meetings)
Duration: One (1) Year Contract with two (2) optional one-year extensions
Guru Consulting Services LLC is seeking an experienced Senior WordPress Full-Stack Developer to support the development, maintenance, optimization, and continuous enhancement of a large-scale enterprise WordPress platform serving higher education stakeholders, including prospective students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the public. The successful candidate will lead full-stack WordPress development efforts, design scalable and secure web solutions, optimize application performance, implement enterprise integrations, ensure accessibility compliance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver modern, reliable, and user-centered digital experiences.
✔ Design, develop, customize, and maintain enterprise-level WordPress applications, including custom themes, plugins, Gutenberg blocks, reusable components, and business functionality.
✔ Develop responsive, accessible, and cross-browser compatible web applications using PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, MySQL, REST APIs, JSON, and modern front-end technologies.
✔ Build and maintain integrations between WordPress and enterprise applications, including CRM systems, admissions platforms, event management solutions, email marketing platforms, analytics tools, and third-party APIs.
✔ Perform WordPress core, theme, and plugin upgrades, troubleshoot production issues, manage development and deployment environments, and provide ongoing technical support while maintaining platform stability.
✔ Optimize website performance through caching strategies, database tuning, Core Web Vitals improvements, image optimization, code refactoring, and application monitoring.
✔ Implement secure coding practices, website hardening, vulnerability remediation, patch management, malware prevention, backup and disaster recovery procedures, and support incident response activities.
✔ Develop and maintain accessible web components compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA standards, perform accessibility testing and remediation, and collaborate with accessibility stakeholders to ensure inclusive digital experiences.
✔ Participate in solution architecture, technical design, code reviews, effort estimation, technology evaluation, and mentor development team members on WordPress best practices.
✔ Prepare technical documentation, deployment procedures, release notes, operational guides, and collaborate with project managers, UX/UI designers, QA engineers, infrastructure teams, and client stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.
✅ Minimum five (5) years of professional experience developing, customizing, and supporting enterprise WordPress applications.
✅ Strong expertise in WordPress architecture, custom theme development, plugin development, Gutenberg blocks, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WordPress hooks and filters, template hierarchy, and REST API development.
✅ Proficiency with PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, MySQL, Git, responsive web development, Bootstrap, AJAX, jQuery, CSS Grid, and Flexbox.
✅ Experience managing enterprise WordPress environments, release management, Git-based version control, staging and production deployments, CI/CD concepts, and hosting platforms such as Pantheon (preferred).
✅ Demonstrated experience optimizing website performance, implementing Core Web Vitals improvements, caching strategies, Redis, database optimization, image optimization, and code refactoring.
✅ Strong understanding of secure software development, website hardening, vulnerability assessment, patch management, malware prevention, and enterprise security best practices.
✅ Experience developing accessible websites compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA, ARIA standards, accessibility testing, and remediation.
✅ Experience integrating WordPress with enterprise platforms such as Slate CRM (or similar admissions CRM), Localist (or comparable event management platforms), Mailchimp (or similar email marketing platforms), Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and third-party REST APIs.
✅ Experience working with Agile methodologies and project management tools such as Jira, Asana, Airtable, and Google Workspace.
✅ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
If you have a proven track record in enterprise WordPress development, full-stack web application development, accessibility compliance, performance optimization, security, API integrations, and technical leadership, we'd love to hear from you.
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