Uncanny Owl: WordPress Developer

Headquarters: [Remote]
URL: https://automatorplugin.com

As a WordPress Developer, you're responsible for Making Stuff Go. You'll build and maintain integrations that connect WordPress to hundreds of external services—from CRMs and email platforms to payment gateways and social networks. You'll own features from conception to completion, handling scoping, development, and testing.

Day-to-day, you'll:

• Build new Automator integrations (triggers and actions) for third-party plugins and apps
• Scope, develop, and test product enhancements, new product features and product add-ons of all sizes
• Work with support to fix bugs reported by our internal team or by customers
• Refactor legacy code while maintaining backward compatibility
• Review pull requests from teammates and provide constructive feedback (GitHub PRs)
• Jump between front-end and back-end tasks as needed
• Communicate with the team and support your peers using chat, audio, and video

Requirements

You Must Have

These are actual requirements, not a wish list:

• 3+ years of WordPress plugin development — professional experience with plugin architecture and WordPress standards, not just plugin and theme tweaks
• 4+ years of Advanced PHP proficiency — OOP, autoloading, namespacing, traits, interfaces, modern PHP practices. You write classes, not 2000-line functions.php files
• AI-assisted development expertise - you know how to leverage AI to amplify and accelerate your work - not replace your brain
• Third-party API experience — consuming APIs from services like Stripe, Drip, Zapier, Google, MailChimp, etc.
• WordPress hooks mastery — actions, filters, priorities. You know when to use each and why
• Security awareness — escaping, sanitization, nonces, capability checks are second nature
• Build tools — ability to use and extend webpack and similar tools
• Package managers — familiarity with Composer and NPM
• Git proficiency — competent with version control through git and GitHub. You've worked on a team codebase before
• Keep it simple — ability to keep complex ideas and features simple (simplicity is a core value!)
• Previous remote work experience — freelance or remote work background
• Strong English communication — fluent in both verbal and written English. Remote work requires clear async communication, and there's no such thing as overcommunicating on our team
• Personal Computer with Internet Access
• Availability — able to participate in audio/video meetings between 9 am - 5 pm EST

Nice to Have

These will make you stand out:

• LearnDash experience — if you've built LearnDash add-ons or customizations, we want to talk
• Existing Uncanny Automator integration — if you've worked to extend Uncanny Automator, we want to talk
• Claude Code - you're an expert at giving Claude Code the guidance and context necessary to plan and execute a project, resulting in code that is equal in quality to what you could produce yourself, but created in a fraction of the time
• HTML/CSS/SCSS experience — layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, access