Senior Software Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team at Clearlink. In this role, you'll take technical ownership of high-traffic WordPress properties, helping maintain and evolve their applications, integrations, and architecture.

You'll design, develop, and optimize enterprise-scale WordPress applications - custom themes, plugins, APIs, and performance improvements - writing secure, testable, maintainable code using PHP and WordPress alongside modern technologies like TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Go. You'll keep consumer-facing websites performant, reliable, and secure, optimize Postgres and MySQL databases, build custom APIs and integrations, and apply solid DevOps practices to ship efficiently.

Beyond the code, you'll provide day-to-day engineering leadership across your assigned properties - prioritizing technical improvements, leading design reviews, and reviewing peers' work - while staying hands-on and helping build a team culture grounded in open communication and honest feedback.

The Impact You Will Make

• Develop high-quality software that aligns with both user needs and business goals.
• Take technical ownership of high-profile, high-traffic WordPress properties, helping manage, maintain, and evolve their applications, integrations, architecture, and supporting services.
• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize enterprise-scale WordPress applications, including custom themes, plugins, integrations, APIs, and performance improvements.
• Write secure, testable, maintainable, and extensible code using industry best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and cross-functional teams to build and deliver customer-centric technical solutions.
• Leverage strong expertise in WordPress and PHP, along with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Go, to build performant and responsive web experiences.
• Ensure the performance, reliability, scalability, and security of high-profile, high-traffic consumer websites, proactively identifying opportunities for optimization and platform improvement.
• Design and optimize Postgres and MySQL databases and implement effective database strategies.
• Use modern JavaScript and TypeScript, particularly React, to build dynamic and performant front-end experiences.
• Apply strong knowledge of DevOps workflows to support efficient development, deployment, and ongoing operation of applications.
• Work on web applications with service-oriented and high-availability architectures.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, and delivery speed.
• Design and build custom APIs and integrations to support rapid product development and connectivity between WordPress and internal or third-party platforms.
• Use GitHub or similar version control systems to manage and review code.
• Collaborate closely with team members to foster a culture of open communication, technical excellence, and continuous feedback.
• Lead or participate in technical design reviews to evaluate and select scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Review code from other developers, offering constructive feedback to uphold code quality and engineering best practices.
• Provide technical direction and day-to-day engineering leadership across assigned WordPress properties, including prioritizing technical improvements, improving platform health, and supporting reliable delivery.
• Participate in the hiring process and mentor junior and mid-level engineers to support skill development and knowledge sharing.