Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Teal Media is a full-service creative and design agency focused on positive social change. They are seeking a Senior Backend Developer to lead technical implementations of custom web projects, primarily in WordPress, ensuring high performance, security, and accessibility while collaborating with various teams.
- Responsibilities
- Lead the technical implementation of custom web projects, primarily using open-source tools, with a strong focus on WordPress back-end development (themes, plugins, and systems integrations)
- Act as the lead developer on both new builds and ongoing support work, owning technical decisions and translating complex client needs into thoughtful, scalable solutions
- Write clean, well-structured, and well-documented code that meets team standards and supports long-term maintainability
- Ensure sites are fast, secure, accessible, and built to scale
- Handle ongoing site maintenance, updates, and feature enhancements for existing client projects
- Own QA and testing for your work to ensure stability and quality before anything reaches a client
- Support deployment workflows and collaborate with internal or client DevOps teams as needed (version control, staging environments, CI/CD)
- Work closely with designers and front-end developers to ensure designs are technically sound and thoughtfully implemented
- Partner with project teams and clients to scope solutions, explain technical tradeoffs, and solve problems as they come up
- Join internal and client-facing meetings to demo features, explain approaches, and troubleshoot issues
- Create documentation or provide training to help clients and internal teams confidently manage and maintain their sites
- Collaborate with senior developers and technical leadership to align project execution with Teal’s technical direction
- Research, test, and recommend tools, frameworks, and workflows that improve how we build and support sites
- Help define and uphold internal coding standards and documentation so the whole team benefits
- Contribute technical insight to proposals and pitches, helping articulate what’s possible and how we deliver it
- Mentor developers across the team through thoughtful feedback, pairing, and code reviews
- Participate in hiring and evaluation of technical talent as needed
- Model strong communication, collaboration, and accountability within project teams
- Skills
- Strong back-end expertise in WordPress development (themes, plugins, and systems integrations)
- Experience leading technical implementation of custom web projects using open-source tools
- Ability to write clean, well-structured, and well-documented code that meets team standards
- Experience ensuring sites are fast, secure, accessible, and built to scale
- Ability to handle ongoing site maintenance, updates, and feature enhancements for existing client projects
- Experience owning QA and testing for work to ensure stability and quality
- Ability to support deployment workflows and collaborate with internal or client DevOps teams
- Experience collaborating closely with designers and front-end developers
- Ability to partner with project teams and clients to scope solutions and explain technical tradeoffs
- Experience creating documentation or providing training to help clients and internal teams manage and maintain their sites
- Ability to collaborate with senior developers and technical leadership to align project execution
- Experience researching, testing, and recommending tools, frameworks, and workflows
- Ability to help define and uphold internal coding standards and documentation
- Experience contributing technical insight to proposals and pitches
- Ability to mentor developers through feedback, pairing, and code reviews
- Experience participating in hiring and evaluation of technical talent
- Strong communication, collaboration, and accountability within project teams
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (like React or Vue) and third-party integrations (CRMs, analytics, donation platforms)
- Experience working in a digital agency or client-services environment, including managing multiple projects and collaborating across disciplines
- Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Generous PTO
- Flexible, people-first workplace that supports balance and professional growth
- Company Overview
- Teal Media specializes in web development, web design, UI,UX design, CRM and SEO services. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://tealmedia.com.
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