Wordpress Implementation Engineer

Responsibilities

• to join the engineering team and take ownership of platform deployment, maintenance, security, and operational stability. This role sits at the critical intersection of platform reliability, third-party integrations, and subscriber support. You will work directly with the Technical Lead to execute technical specs, keep the platform healthy between releases, and ensure seamless delivery of real-time trading data to members.
• Execute implementation plans from written specs and checklists. Write, test, and debug code across a proprietary family of custom plugins, ensuring seamless releases on staging before deploying to production.
• Own the technical release calendar, managing routine WordPress core, plugin, and infrastructure updates alongside backup verification and database sanity checks.
• Enforce strict security protocols including input sanitization, nonces, cap checks, secret management, rate limiting, WAF rules, and access control on custom REST endpoints.
• Act as the primary technical contact for member access issues, billing anomalies (MemberPress/Stripe), SSO glitches, and session bugs. Resolve routine issues directly and escalate complex defects with actionable technical write-ups.
• Perform systematic regression testing across critical member journeys—including checkout, SSO, course progression, and community features—after every deployment.
• Partner with the Technical Lead to maintain and integrate external Python microservices and real-time streaming architectures (
• Massive.com
• WebSockets, Firebase Firestore/RTDB) delivering high-frequency market data.

Preferred

• Python-based microservices.
• Hands-on experience with financial market data APIs (Massive/Polygon REST & WebSockets).

Maintain Platform Runbooks

Build clear, standardized technical documentation and runbooks to guarantee platform operability and continuity.

Must have tools

• Firebase
• MemberPress
• BuddyBoss
• OAuth / SSO

Experienced WordPress Developer

4+ years of hands-on experience working with advanced WordPress internals (hooks, REST APIs, custom routing, capabilities, transients, object caching).

Data Model & Plugin Specialist

Proficient with custom data modeling at scale (specifically JetEngine CPTs, meta fields, relations, and REST writes) and comfortable inspecting direct SQL databases (phpMyAdmin).

Membership & Billing Expert

Demonstrated experience supporting production membership sites, with deep knowledge of MemberPress and Stripe integration troubleshooting.

Security-Minded Engineering Mindset

Natural instinct to validate/sanitize input, secure REST endpoints, protect auth flows, and treat billing and SSO systems with high-risk rigor.

Proactive Problem Solver

Self-starter capable of root-cause analysis in complex ETL/API setups without hand-holding. You prefer surgical edits over unnecessary rewrites and test thoroughly on staging first.

Exceptional Technical Communicator

Advanced written and spoken English skills, able to translate technical root-causes clearly for non-technical team members and stakeholders.