WordPress Developer, Sr. — United States

About The Company

SEON is the command center for fraud prevention and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance, serving thousands of companies worldwide to stop fraud, reduce risk, and protect revenue. Leveraging over 900 real-time, first-party data signals, SEON enriches customer profiles, flags suspicious behavior, and streamlines compliance workflows—all from a single platform. Our technology provides richer data, more flexible and transparent analysis, and faster time to value than any other provider on the market. We have helped companies reduce fraud by 95% and achieve a 32x return on investment. Our rapid growth is driven by partnerships with some of the most ambitious digital brands globally, including Revolut, Wise, and Bilt.

About The Role

We are seeking a skilled WordPress Developer to take full technical ownership of SEON’s global website. This role involves building a faster, more scalable, and reliable web platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing custom Gutenberg blocks, maintaining the WordPress architecture, managing deployments, ensuring site security, optimizing performance, and integrating third-party services. You will collaborate closely with the Website Manager, Marketing, Design, and SEO teams to translate business requirements into robust, reusable solutions that enable campaign launches, experimentation, and scalability without heavy developer dependencies. This is a hands-on engineering position with significant ownership and autonomy, ideal for someone who proactively improves the platform and takes pride in delivering a high-performance website.

Location: US East Coast or Austin, TX

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in WordPress development and maintenance of custom, production-grade WordPress websites

• Strong expertise in PHP and WordPress internals, including hooks, APIs, custom themes, plugins, database structures, custom post types, and WP-CLI

• Proficiency in modern front-end technologies such as JavaScript (ES6+), React, HTML5, and CSS/SCSS

• Experience building custom Gutenberg blocks, reusable components, and responsive, accessible templates

• Familiarity with development workflows including Git, code reviews, staging environments, automated builds, CI/CD pipelines, and structured deployment practices

• Understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing methodologies

• Knowledge of web performance optimization, Core Web Vitals, caching strategies, CDN usage, and web security best practices

• Experience with WordPress multisite and multilingual architectures, including technical SEO, accessibility, and compatibility testing

• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset

• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Design, and SEO

Amazing To Have

• Experience managing production environments on WP Engine, including staging, caching, Global Edge Security, and deployment workflows

• Familiarity with HubSpot, GA4, Google Tag Manager, Consent Mode v2, cookie consent platforms, and complex form integrations

• Experience implementing A/B testing, personalization, and experimentation platforms such as VWO or GrowthBook

• Knowledge of MultilingualPress or equivalent multilingual solutions within WordPress multisite

• Previous experience maintaining high-performing B2B SaaS or enterprise marketing websites

• Understanding of DNS, CDNs, WAFs, Cloudflare, server logs, security scanning, API troubleshooting, and third-party script governance

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain custom Gutenberg blocks, patterns, and page templates to enable scalable content management without developer involvement

• Own the custom SEON theme and plugin codebase, including maintenance, refactoring, documentation, and technical debt management

• Manage the build pipeline and release processes including Git workflows, staging, deployments on WP Engine, and rollback procedures

• Ensure site security through hardening, vulnerability monitoring, plugin and theme updates, and incident response

• Optimize site performance focusing on Core Web Vitals, caching strategies, and page speed improvements

• Plan and execute platform upgrades such as WordPress core, PHP, and MySQL with comprehensive compatibility testing across the multisite network

• Maintain multilingual site functionality across English, Spanish, and Portuguese (Brazil) locales, ensuring hreflang and multilingual behavior compliance

• Manage integrations including forms, CRM, analytics, tag management, and cookie consent solutions

• Collaborate with the SEO team to implement technical SEO and accessibility standards, including schema markup, crawlability, indexation, and WCAG 2.2 AA compliance

• Establish and uphold engineering standards such as code reviews, coding conventions, monitoring, backups, and recovery testing

• Scope and estimate requests from Marketing and Design teams and provide technical guidance to external agencies or freelancers as needed

• Conduct cross-browser and cross-device testing prior to releases, utilizing tools like BrowserStack and visual regression testing on key templates

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a fast-growing, innovative company in the fraud prevention and AML compliance space

• Significant ownership and autonomy in a hands-on engineering role

• Collaborative, cross-functional work environment with Marketing, Design, and SEO teams

• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and best practices in WordPress development and web performance

• Competitive compensation package (details to be discussed during the hiring process)

• Flexible work location options on the US East Coast or Austin, TX

• Supportive environment encouraging professional growth and continuous learning

Equal Opportunity

SEON is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the diversity of our team and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process upon request.