Principal WordPress Frontend Developer

About the Role

We build custom WordPress sites for businesses across the United States, the kind that are fast, well-designed, and built to last, not pulled off a template and patched together. Good design, clean code, sensible SEO, and a genuinely smooth experience for the people using them.

We’re looking for someone senior to anchor that work: a developer who takes real ownership, sweats the details, and wants a hand in shaping how our web team builds. If you like being the person others trust to get a site right, this is for you.

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Key Responsibilities

• Turn Design (Figma & Mockup) into custom WordPress builds.
• Develop custom themes and reusable, well-structured components.
• Extend and customize existing themes without sacrificing performance or scalability.
• Work side by side with designers, project managers, and U.S.-based clients.
• Make sure every site holds up across screens and devices.
• Tune sites for Core Web Vitals, SEO, accessibility, and page speed.
• Integrate APIs, forms, CRMs, marketing tools, and other third-party services.
• Diagnose and improve sites that already exist.
• Mentor junior developers and help set our frontend standards.
• Push our WordPress practices and processes forward over time.

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What we’re looking for

The right person, who has built a lot of WordPress, works well on their own, and communicates clearly. Specifically:

• 6+ years of WordPress experience
• Has built custom themes from scratch
• Comfortable with modern frontend development
• Can manage projects end to end with minimal guidance
• Proactive, dependable, and happy to solve problems rather than wait for instructions
• Takes real pride in the work and the details, clean code, fast loads, maintainable architecture, and builds that match the design
• You don’t just ship sites. You make them better.

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Technical Skills

• Expert-level WordPress development
• PHP
• HTML5
• CSS3 / SCSS
• JavaScript
• Responsive web design
• Custom theme development
• Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)
• Gutenberg block development
• Git / GitHub / Bitbucket
• Technical SEO
• Website migrations
• Performance optimization
• Tailwind CSS
• React (for Gutenberg blocks)*

Nice to have

• Elementor (custom development)
• WooCommerce
• WP Engine
• React/TypeScript
• MySQL
• TypeScript, testing (Jest/PHPUnit)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Headless WordPress (REST API/WPGraphQL)
• WCAG/Accessibility

You’ll stand out if you…

• Having a strong portfolio of custom WordPress work
• Understand branding and UI/UX, not just code
• Have worked with U.S. clients before
• Can push sites to excellent Lighthouse scores
• Know when a plugin is the right call — and when to build it yourself
• Genuinely enjoy mentoring other developers

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Why Join Us?

At Devfinity, you’ll work on websites for growing businesses across the United States. Every project is different, giving you the opportunity to solve unique challenges and continually expand your skills.

You’ll collaborate with a talented team, influence technical decisions, and have the opportunity to shape the future of our WordPress practice.

If you’re passionate about creating fast, modern, and beautiful websites—and you want your work to make a real impact—we’d love to hear from you.

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How to Apply:

If you meet the above qualifications and are ready to make an impact, send your resume to HR Nepal – hrnepal@devfinity.com. Please include “Principal WordPress Frontend Developer” in the subject line.

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