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Membership Platform Engineer (WordPress & Billing Systems)
Type: Full-time, Remote (U.S. only)
Salary: $125,000/year
Schedule: Flexible within standard U.S. business hours.
Overview
We are seeking an experienced backend-focused WordPress engineer to support and improve a high-traffic subscription and membership platform. This role focuses on platform reliability, billing systems, payment integrations, and membership access management in a production environment.
The ideal candidate has strong experience with WordPress development, subscription platforms, APIs/webhooks, and troubleshooting complex production issues involving payments and member access.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and extend backend WordPress functionality using PHP
- Develop and maintain custom plugins and integrations
- Manage membership, subscription, and access-control systems
- Build and maintain integrations with payment processors and related services
- Ensure reliable webhook processing and billing synchronization
- Troubleshoot production issues involving payments, APIs, and user access
- Improve platform performance, stability, logging, and monitoring
- Manage staging-to-production deployment workflows and rollback procedures
- Optimize database queries and backend performance
- Document systems and technical processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members on platform improvements
Required Experience
- 5+ years of WordPress and PHP development experience
- Experience with membership or subscription-based platforms
- Experience integrating payment systems such as Stripe and/or PayPal
- Experience building and maintaining API and webhook integrations
- Experience troubleshooting production billing and access-control issues
- Experience managing deployments between staging and production environments
Preferred Experience
- Experience with subscription management plugins or platforms
- Experience with ecommerce platforms and related integrations
- Familiarity with Cloudflare or similar CDN/security/performance platforms
- Experience with CRM, analytics, or marketing automation integrations
- Experience working remotely with distributed teams
Required Skills
- Strong understanding of WordPress architecture and plugin development
- Strong backend debugging and performance optimization skills
- Familiarity with secure payment and webhook handling practices
- Strong organizational and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work independently and communicate effectively in a remote environment
Interested candidates should submit a resume and brief overview of relevant WordPress, subscription, and payment integration experience.
To apply for this job please visit jobs.wordpress.net.
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