
Software Engineer - WordPress/ 2 weeks ago
About MonetizeMore
MonetizeMore empowers digital publishers to build sustainable businesses by maximizing advertising revenue through privacy-first, cutting-edge ad tech. We are a fully remote, globally distributed team that values ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
The Role
We are seeking a Software Engineer (WordPress) with strong PHP and WordPress experience to contribute to building, scaling, and maintaining high-performance publisher sites and WordPress-based products integrated with our ad tech stack. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver features end-to-end in an agile, asynchronous environment.
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain custom WordPress plugins and themes using modern PHP.
- Build REST APIs and integrations with internal services and third-party platforms (analytics, ad tech, SSO, etc.).
- Optimize performance (Core Web Vitals), security, and reliability across high-traffic sites.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and code quality tooling.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues; participate in an on-call rotation (reasonable schedule, follow-the-sun).
- Partner with stakeholders to estimate effort, break down work, and deliver iterative value.
- Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
You’ll Thrive Here If You
- Enjoy owning features from design to deployment.
- Communicate clearly in an async, remote-first culture (Slack, docs, PRs).
- Care about developer experience, code quality, and maintainability.
Qualifications
Must-Haves
- 2–3 years of professional experience building WordPress sites, plugins, or products.
- Solid PHP (7.x/8.x) fundamentals and familiarity with modern patterns (OOP, namespaces, Composer, PSR standards).
- Strong WordPress expertise: hooks/filters, custom post types, WP-CLI, multisite, Gutenberg/Block Editor.
- Frontend proficiency: HTML5, CSS/Sass, JavaScript/TypeScript, React for Gutenberg blocks.
- Experience with MySQL/MariaDB, query optimization, and caching (Object Cache/Redis, page caching).
- Git/GitHub (PR reviews, trunk-based or GitFlow), CI/CD fundamentals.
- Performance and security best practices (Core Web Vitals, CWEs/OWASP, nonces/capabilities).
- Comfortable working across time zones in a remote team.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with ad tech (Google Ad Manager, Prebid, header bidding) or analytics (GA4, Looker Studio).
- Infrastructure experience: Docker, Nginx/Apache, Varnish, Cloudflare, AWS/GCP.
- Automated testing in the WP/PHP ecosystem (PHPUnit, Pest, Playwright, Cypress).
- Familiarity with SEO, internationalization (i18n/l10n), and accessibility (WCAG).
- Experience with telemetry/observability (Logrocket/Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Datadog/New Relic).
Example Projects You Might Own
- Build a privacy-aware custom plugin that injects ad placements conditionally based on consent signals (TCF/US Privacy) and viewability.
- Migrate legacy shortcodes to Gutenberg blocks with React and server-side rendering for performance.
- Implement an edge-cache strategy and object caching to reduce TTFB and improve LCP across high-traffic pages.
- Create a small service that syncs WP content with internal APIs; expose a hardened REST endpoint for partners.

