WordPress Developer

Uncanny Owl • Toronto, ON

97d • Remote

About The Position

Uncanny Owl builds Uncanny Automator, a powerful automation platform for WordPress, similar to Zapier but native to WordPress. They also develop eLearning add-ons used by thousands of eLearning sites. The company's products are active on over 80,000 websites and experienced by millions of internet users. The WordPress Developer role is responsible for 'Making Stuff Go' by building and maintaining integrations that connect WordPress to hundreds of external services. This includes owning features from conception to completion, handling scoping, development, and testing.

Requirements

• 3+ years of WordPress plugin development — professional experience with plugin architecture and WordPress standards
• 4+ years of Advanced PHP proficiency — OOP, autoloading, namespacing, traits, interfaces, modern PHP practices
• AI-assisted development expertise - ability to leverage AI to amplify and accelerate work
• Third-party API experience — consuming APIs from services like Stripe, Drip, Zapier, Google, MailChimp, etc.
• WordPress hooks mastery — actions, filters, priorities
• Security awareness — escaping, sanitization, nonces, capability checks
• 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
• Ability to keep complex ideas and features simple
• Previous remote work experience — freelance or remote work background
• Strong English communication — fluent in both verbal and written English
• Personal Computer with Internet Access
• Availability — able to participate in audio/video meetings between 9 am - 5 pm EST

Nice To Haves

• LearnDash experience — experience building LearnDash add-ons or customizations
• Existing Uncanny Automator integration — experience extending Uncanny Automator
• Claude Code expertise - expert at giving Claude Code the guidance and context necessary to plan and execute a project
• HTML/CSS/SCSS experience — layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility
• JavaScript expertise — vanilla JS, jQuery, ES6, DOM manipulation, async programming, closures, promises, web components, VueJS or React proficiency
• MySQL expertise — database design, queries, optimization
• REST API experience — working with WordPress REST API and authentication
• TDD experience — writing PHP unit tests
• UI/UX design chops
• DevOps or infrastructure management

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Fully remote — work from anywhere
• Annual all-company retreat — company covers all travel costs
• Real ownership — you'll own features from scoping to deployment
• Impact at scale — your code runs on tens of thousands of websites
• Solve meaningful problems — your work makes a tangible difference
• Work with the best — frequent, often daily, interactions with talented teammates
• No politics, no b.s., and no jerks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed