Mediavine, a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 1,900 websites in the food, lifestyle, and entertainment space, is searching for a Lead WordPress Engineer to assist in building solutions for our publishers and work with our engineering team to launch new products. We are looking for a mid-to-senior level developer to lead our WordPress team in building plugins, themes, and integrations with our backend.
We are looking for someone with great organizational skills, as well as someone who cares deeply about the quality of the product they are building. We’re a primarily remote team, so experience with leading a remote team is greatly desired.
As an engineer at Mediavine you can expect to:
Conceptualize and create new wordpress plugins
Work with design team to optimize user experience
Develop ways to automate and optimize development
Manage plugin rollouts to our publishers
Ensure all plugins have met QA requirements
REQUIREMENTS
Must haves
2-4 years professional experience
Contributes to/Owner of at least one published plugin with 100+ active installs
Experience working with Subversion and/or Git
Experience working with Javascript frameworks
Continuous drive to learn
Project lead experience
Deep familiarity with WordPress core
2+ Years in customer facing role (customer service, support, etc)
Experience with TDD, including wordpress testing frameworks
Located within the United States
Bonus points for
Experience/Comfort working with Agile Frameworks like SCRUM
Eye for Design
Experience developing new frameworks
Located within the Twin Cities Metro area

