WordPress Developer (PHP)

Location: Tbilisi, Freedom Square, 2; fully remote, office-based, or hybrid work options available.

Company

Andersen is an international software development company delivering digital solutions for businesses across multiple industries, including gaming, emerging technologies, digital health, media, events, and affiliate marketing.

What you will do

• Build and maintain custom WordPress themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks for high-traffic, multilingual websites.
• Develop shared libraries, block collections, Composer packages, and delivery tooling.
• Refactor legacy code, optimize queries and caching, and maintain Core Web Vitals performance targets.
• Build and consume REST APIs and integrate internal and third-party systems.
• Participate in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, engineering standards, and timely product delivery.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, SEO, and content teams on features and site improvements.

Requirements

• 3.5+ years of professional WordPress development experience with Object-Oriented PHP 8.x, namespaces, PSR-4, and Composer.
• Deep knowledge of WordPress core APIs, including hooks, custom post types and taxonomies, meta and custom fields, ACF Pro, native fields, and WP_Query.
• Production experience building Gutenberg blocks with React, JSX, block.json, and @wordpress/scripts.
• Strong modern JavaScript ES6+, webpack or Vite build tooling, and modern CSS with Sass or PostCSS; Tailwind is a plus.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, including custom WordPress REST endpoints.
• Knowledge of WordPress security practices, including escaping, sanitization, nonces, and capabilities, as well as object caching and query optimization.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to work in an AI-assisted development workflow using tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor, with responsibility for reviewing and verifying generated code.
• English proficiency at Intermediate+ level or above.

Nice to have

• Experience with WordPress block themes, Full Site Editing, theme.json, and the Interactivity API.
• Familiarity with Bedrock or similar Composer-based WordPress architectures.
• Experience with automated testing and static analysis using PHPUnit, Playwright, PHPStan, and PHPCS/WPCS.
• Experience with Timber/Twig, Blade, or similar templating engines.
• Experience with WordPress Multisite and multilingual solutions such as WPML or Polylang.
• Experience with headless WordPress, including WPGraphQL and Next.js.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards and technical SEO.

Culture & Benefits

• Choice of fully remote, office-based, or hybrid work.
• Mentoring and onboarding programs with opportunities for professional, financial, and career growth.
• Opportunity to work with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and other industries and change projects or business domains.
• Additional earnings of up to $1,000 per month through company activities.
• Corporate training portal, certification compensation, referral program, private health insurance, and sports compensation.
• Corporate events and activities including parties, pizza days, PlayStation, snacks, and movies.