About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.

About the role

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 as a framework and codebase (not a plugin/theme admin job). You’ll build custom functionality, extend core behavior, and ship clean, well-tested PHP that scales.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain complex web applications using WordPress.
• Work on a large-scale system. Making it faster, more scalable and fault-tolerant.
• Communicate effectively across internal and vendor teams to identify and resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
• Eager to collaborate and participate in discussions about system architecture, and/or design.
• Review and improve source code written by developers to meet the project coding standards and maintain the quality bar.
• Juggle current tasks with incoming tasks in a fast-paced priority-based environment.
• Contribute towards the improvement of Engineering discipline through leadership and mentorship.

What We’re Looking For
Must-Have Experience

• 5+ years professional WordPress-focused development, writing custom code (not plugin assembly).
• Strong PHP with deep knowledge of WordPress architecture (hooks, custom functionality, core internals).
• Solid experience with Unit Testing (e.g., PHPUnit) and a clean-code mindset (SOLID, design patterns).
• Competent with JavaScript/React/HTML/CSS to implement end-to-end features.
• Proficiency with Git and modern collaborative workflows.
• Proven experience working in remote, distributed teams with strong English communication (spoken/written).
• Strong ownership mentality—sees features into production and supports post-release behavior (on-call culture as needed).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Gutenberg block development.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP/Azure preferred; AWS transferable).
• Experience with Docker, build tooling, and Agile practices.
• Exposure to Node.js/GraphQL and/or accessibility standards.
• Comfort using AI-assisted tooling (Copilot, prompt engineering) to accelerate high-quality delivery.

Tools and Environment

• WordPress
• PHP, WordPress architecture 
• Unit Testing (e.g., PHPUnit)
• JavaScript/React/HTML/CSS
• Git

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter Screen
• Technical Interview
• Client Interview I
• Client Interview II

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

What we offer

• Totally remote, full time (40h/week)
• Flexible work hours
• Contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice
• Availability: 4 hours overlapping with Doha, Qatar.