Senior WordPress Developer (Freelance)

We are rebuilding our Agency Catalog — a data-driven, SEO-first marketplace for digital marketing agencies. We need an experienced freelance WordPress developer to plan the architecture, build custom plugins and frontend features, and support the launch on a subdomain with 700+ listings across 5 languages.

• Review the existing codebase and propose the target architecture
• Build custom WordPress plugins and frontend functionality
• Implement responsive layouts based on Figma designs
• Build user dashboards, roles, permissions, and ownership logic
• Implement filters, comparison, multilingual routing, and API workflows
• Test critical functionality and support the production launch

• 4+ years of custom WordPress development
• Strong PHP and object-oriented programming skills
• Strong knowledge of CPTs, taxonomies, users, roles, capabilities, WP_Query, and WordPress APIs
• Advanced ACF Pro experience
• Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills
• Experience implementing responsive Figma designs
• Experience building frontend dashboards and custom REST API endpoints
• Strong understanding of WordPress security, permissions, validation, sanitization, and escaping
• Experience with Polylang or WPML
• Experience building AJAX filters with URL synchronization
• Experience integrating external APIs and handling background jobs
• Strong understanding of frontend performance and Core Web Vitals
• Experience migrating WordPress content, taxonomies, media, translations, SEO metadata, and redirects
• Strong Git skills and comfort with pull requests and code reviews
• Testing and production readiness responsibility (no dedicated QA engineer)