Junior Web Developer

World Racing Group•Concord, NC

9d•Onsite

About The Position

World Racing Group runs the World of Outlaws, DIRTcar Racing, and the DIRTVision streaming platform. A small dev team handles the websites, internal tools, and infrastructure behind all of it — live race results, series standings, streaming, content that gets millions of pageviews on race nights. We need another developer. You’ll start with support tickets, bug fixes, and small improvements across the stack. As you learn the codebase, you’ll take on more — building features for internal tools, maintaining WordPress sites, and eventually contributing to applications that race officials, teams, and fans use. Day-to-day, you’ll work alongside our senior developer, who’s been building motorsports tech here for seven years. He’ll be your go-to for technical questions and code review. You’ll report to the Executive Director of Digital on the management side.

Requirements

PHP — Enough to read existing code and make changes. No framework experience required.
WordPress — Experience editing themes, working with custom plugins, or building on WordPress in a development context (not just using the admin panel).
SQL — Comfortable writing SELECT queries, understanding JOINs, and reading stored procedures. You’ll be working with MariaDB daily.
JavaScript (ES6+) — Solid fundamentals. Familiarity with a framework like React is a plus but not required.
Git — You use version control. You can branch, commit, push, and open a pull request without hand-holding.
REST APIs — You’ve consumed an API before and understand request/response basics.
You read docs, search Stack Overflow, and try things before asking for help. You also know when to stop spinning your wheels and just ask.
Good at juggling. You’ll have several small tasks going at once and need to keep track of all of them.
When you break something, you say so. Then you fix it.
Not the type to panic when something breaks during a live broadcast or a traffic spike on race night.
Into motorsports. Not technically required, but the people here care about racing. It makes a difference when you understand what you’re building and who it’s for.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with React or React Native.
Exposure to AWS services (EC2, S3, CloudFront) or any cloud hosting environment.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar).
Interest in or experience with Python.
You already know what a heat race is, or you’ve stayed up way too late watching a feature on DIRTVision.

Responsibilities

Triage and resolve support tickets and bug reports across WRG’s websites, WordPress plugins, and internal applications.
Dig into bug reports in PHP, JavaScript, and SQL. Find what’s broken, fix it, get it reviewed.
Maintain and update WordPress sites and custom plugins that pull dynamic content from our central database.
Write and fix database queries (MariaDB/MySQL) for content pages, reports, and internal tools.
Troubleshoot API integrations when third-party data stops showing up where it should.
Go through code reviews. You’ll learn the codebase and our standards by having your work reviewed and reading other people’s code.
Write things down. When you figure out how something works or fix a confusing issue, document it so the next person doesn’t have to start from scratch.
Building features for internal web applications used by WRG timing and scoring staff and race officials.
Contributing to our React Native mobile applications.
Working with AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, CloudFront, RDS) for deployments and troubleshooting.
Owning entire features or subsystems once you know the codebase well enough.