WordPress Developer
This full-time, remote position pays up to $68,000 a year and is open to applicants regardless of location. The team needs someone who can take a WordPress site from a rough brief to a finished build without constant hand-holding.
Who fits this role
An associate degree, or equivalent hands-on experience in its place, meets the education requirement. What carries more weight is a portfolio of custom WordPress sites you've actually built, plus 18 months of relevant work behind you. PHP needs to be a genuine strength, and so does working directly inside theme and plugin code rather than relying entirely on pre-built tools.
Day-to-day work
- Build and customize WordPress sites for a range of client briefs
- Develop custom themes and plugins when existing options don't cover what's needed
- Diagnose and fix performance issues and compatibility conflicts between plugins, themes, and hosting environments
- Join regular check-ins to keep priorities and deadlines aligned across active projects
Technical skills required
- WordPress CMS, at a level well past the admin dashboard basics
- PHP
- HTML and CSS
- Theme and plugin customization, both directions
- MySQL, for the database-level troubleshooting that comes up eventually
Bonus skills
These aren't required, but candidates who have them tend to ramp up faster.
- Experience with a page builder such as Elementor or Divi
- WooCommerce, for anyone who's set up or maintained an online store
- Site speed optimization work, including caching setups and image compression
Compensation and benefits
Base salary reaches $68,000 annually. A quick check against current wordpress developer remote salary listings shows this sitting comfortably mid-to-upper range for someone at 18 months of experience.
- Health coverage
- Paid time off
- Remote-work flexibility, with no set office location
- Tuition reimbursement or a learning stipend for skill development
Working style
Most of the work is self-directed between the scheduled check-ins, and the team expects developers to flag scope or timeline problems early rather than absorb them silently. On one recent project, a plugin conflict took down checkout functionality on a client's store for several hours before anyone caught it; the fix that stuck was a rollback procedure the team now runs by default before major plugin updates. Naukri Mitra handles the first round of candidate screening before handing things off to the hiring manager for a technical conversation, so the earliest outreach may come from a different name than the one listed in this posting.
How to apply
Submit a resume along with three or four examples of WordPress sites you've built or substantially modified. A short note on what was custom work versus what came from a template helps the review move faster. Most applicants hear back within a week, and the process typically runs three rounds from first contact to an offer.
