Role: Senior Software Engineer WordPress Specialist Pay-Rate: USD 40 to 45 per hour Client Name: News Corporate Services Inc. Working Location: Brazil/ Colombia/Costa Rica/Ecuador Hiring Mode: Contractor. Skills We are seeking an innovative and highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team focusing on building and managing missioncritical WordPress plugins and custom solutions for our editorial newsroom workflows The ideal candidate not only possesses expertlevel WordPress and engineering skills but also proactively leverages AI tools and principles to enhance the entire software development lifecycle driving velocity code quality and technical documentation

Key Responsibilities

Architect develop and maintain custom Gutenberg plugins and React editor components specifically tailored for enterpriselevel newsroom and content workflows Design and implement performant API endpoints and optimize database queries for hightraffic media platforms Participate comprehensively in the SDLC contributing to architectural discussions coding and comprehensive peer reviews Proactively integrate and leverage AIenabled workflows eg in testing refactoring and documentation to accelerate development and ensure code maintainability Ensure that all code is welldocumented adhering to enterprise standards and leave the codebase better than it was found Collaborate with product and editorial teams to translate complex business needs into productionready technical specifications Champion best practices in testing unit integration E2E CICD and performance engineering Skills Required WordPress Expertise Advanced knowledge of the WordPress Gutenberg block editor the WordPress hook system and the REST API Core Languages Frameworks Advanced proficiency in PHP JavaScript ES6 and React for complex editor state management Custom Development Extensive experience with custom WordPress plugin and block development Performance APIs Proven experience writing custom API endpoints and optimizing queries for performance AI Integration Understanding Demonstrated ability to proactively use and integrate AI tools eg GitHub CoPilot specialized models for contextual refactoring test scaffolding documentation generation and other elements of the development lifecycle Tooling Experience using dependency management tools like Composer and NPMYarn Nicetohave Experience with advanced AI concepts like Prompt Engineering and AI integration within CMS platforms Proficiency in unit integration and E2E testing eg Jest PHPUnit Cypress Playwright Understanding of RAG RetrievalAugmented Generation vector databases and how to minimize hallucinations and latency when building AIdriven editorial tools Experience working with headless WordPress architectures Familiarity with CICD systems such as Jenkins CircleCI or GitHub Actions Past contributions to opensource software projects Key Attributes Our ideal candidate is someone who Proactively uses AI tools to enhance delivery cycles and overall engineering quality They treat AI as a primary partner in the development lifecycle to move from concept to production at a high velocity Possess a build it own it mindset Instead of tossing features to QA to find bugs they proactively test their own work Identifies technical risks proposes architectural improvements and offers technical recommendations that enhance product stability and user experience Is eager to become involved in all aspects of the development lifecycle from planning and architecture to coding and peer review Leaves a codebase better documented than they found it Is a strong communicator able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to audiences of varying technical knowledge