Senior WordPress Plugin Developer - remote

Hi, my name is Brad Touesnard. I’m the founder of Delicious Brains Inc. We make high quality products for WordPress.

The “we”is currently a small team of developers, one designer, one marketer, and myself. I’m very proud to say that our little crew has been managing to delight thousands of customers, working from our homes since 2012.

Despite the crazy times we’re living in, we have big plans for 2021 and this is a great opportunity to join a small team of talented folks building awesome products before we get bigger.

The Job

I’m looking for a talented developer with lots of experience building WordPress plugins to join our team to work on one of our WordPress plugins.

In the past, WordPress development has been very PHP-heavy, but that is changing. React is taking over WordPress core, WooCommerce, and lots of plugins including ours. So although working on our sites is still mostly PHP, the React work will be ramping up. We’re also using Svelt instead of React for one of our plugins, so we’re not married to React for every plugin.

You’ll also join the rest of our whole team in writing new articles and updating existing content for our sites. We send an email to our 11k subscribers every week about our content.

Although you’ll start with working on one plugin, you will work on other plugins in the future as well. We already have more plugins than development teams and we’re building new plugins, so each team works on multiple plugins.

Responsibilities

• Develop our custom software licensing and subscriptions addon for WooCommerce that runs on deliciousbrains.com (we aim to turn this into a product someday)
• Improve the APIs that our WordPress plugins connect to for licensing, support, statistics, etc
• Build new APIs to add cloud features to our plugins
• Work with design and marketing teams to implement new sections, pages, promotions, pricing, etc.
• Chip away at the backlog of fixes and improvements
• Maintain and write new acceptance tests
• Test WordPress core and third-party plugin updates and fix any issues
• Help maintain the servers running our sites
• Write articles and tutorials for our blog
• Attend company retreats (see job posting)

Requirements

• Expert PHP development skills
• 5 years of advanced PHP development
• 5 years of HTML &CSS development
• 2 years of JavaScript development (ES6/jQuery)
• 2 years of advanced WordPress plugin development
• 1 year working with git as source control
• Experience writing automated tests
• Experience working with complex APIs like Amazon Web Services
• Excellent English communication skills (spoken and written)
• Work hours that overlap some with the EST timezone
• Self-motivated and work well independently
• Comfortable working remotely (we don’t have an office)

Bonus Points

• Experience with modern JS frameworks (e.g. React, Vue.js, Angular)
• Experience developing with the Laravel framework
• System administration skills
• UX and design skills
• Open source contributions
• Computer Science degree or equivalent

About You

You’re thrilled to work with the latest hotness language or framework but also thrive working on a “fixer-upper”project. You respect old code, no matter how ugly it looks. You truly enjoy figuring out how old code works, refactoring it, and tackling the challenges that come with it. You have experience doing this type of work and know you love it.

You’re a problem solver who loves to analyze an issue, recreate it and track it back to the source of the problem. You won’t commit any code unless it’s fully tested and solves the problem. Better still, you write the tests to go with it.

You’re curious and love to learn. You embrace the opportunity to level up, learn something new and really dig into it. You’re a disciplined worker and have no trouble getting work done at home on any given day.

You value consistency above preference and will adopt new coding styles, standards, and tools to that end. You are stellar at identifying the simple, elegant solution in a sea of over-engineering possibilities.

Although you enjoy working with people to help you generate ideas and formulate a plan of attack on a project, you do your best work in isolation without interruption. You’re proactive in tackling things that need to be done without direction.

You’re exceptional at communicating in writing via instant message, email, etc. You’re ok on the phone and video chat too. You understand that clear, concise written communication is how remote teams thrive. Putting a pull request up for review without explaining its context is unheard of for you.

You own both successes and failures. When a project you’re leading turns into a disaster, you own it and you learn from it. You never point the finger at others.

You invite criticism and genuinely want to grow as a professional. You’re onboard with pushing each other to be better and are not afraid to give constructive criticism in addition to receiving it.

The Offer

• Remote First. We have always been a remote company, since the very start. Working from home has its challenges, but you’ll be surrounded by empathetic folks who have been successfully working from home for many years.
• Company Retreats. As a remote company, it’s super important to get some face time. In 2019 we had a blast in Berlin but we had to cancel our trip to Portugal in 2020. Hopefully we’ll be able to meet up again soon. Will you be joining us?
• Location Independent. Work from wherever you’re happiest. All members of our team currently work from their homes in the US, Canada, the UK, India, Sweden, Egypt, and the Philippines.
• Choose Your Schedule. Most companies claim to have flexible hours, but the reality is often very different. We flex our hours for real. As long as on average you’re working the number of hours you’ve committed to working each week, we’re good. Most of our team commits to a 37.5-hour week, but some do 35 and some only 30. Anywhere between 37.5 and 30 hours per week works for us.
• Personal Development. If there’s a conference or event that will help you level up, the company will cover your expenses. You’re also allotted some time each month to learn something new unrelated to your job, participate in community discussions, and/or contribute to an open source project.
• Profit Sharing. I share a financial report with the team quarterly so everyone knows how the company is doing. And when the company does well, the team does well. Last year, on average team members received USD $3,600 each.
• Vacation and Holidays. This is flexible, but people typically start with four weeks of vacation they can schedule for themselves. The whole company also takes two weeks off in late December / early January when business quiets down. That’s a total of six weeks off per year. We strongly encourage time off and so everyone on our team uses up just about all their vacation each year.
• Paid Leave. For the birth or adoption of a child, the company offers 8 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 3 weeks for secondary caregivers. We also offer 5 paid sick days and 3 days of paid bereavement leave.
• Health Insurance. Members of the team based in Canada are eligible for health/dental/life/disability insurance on a company plan while those outside of Canada are eligible for a stipend to partially cover insurance costs.
• Competitive Salaries. The company typically pays salaries that are competitive with the market in which you reside. There are situations that call for higher pay even when living in a region with a lower cost of living, so we’re flexible on this.

Apply

Fill out the application form: https://deliciousbrains.com/wordpress-developer-apply

We are an equal opportunity employer. Application information that is prone to unconscious biases is hidden during the review process whenever possible. We judge the content of the applications on their own without knowledge of the applicant’s race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, or age. We support workplace diversity, but not at the expense of equal opportunity and meritocracy. We’re looking for talented and empathetic people no matter their other attributes.

I look forward to reviewing your application.

Best of luck,

Brad Touesnard
Founder &CEO
Delicious Brains Inc.