Job WordPress Plugins & Themes developer en Remote

Launch your WordPress career at Melapress and help us build secure, high-impact products and a great web presence.

Would you like to turn your love for WordPress into production-ready code? Do you want to learn from senior engineers who maintain plugins that run on hundreds of thousands of sites? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

At Melapress, we develop security-focused plugins such as WP Activity Log and WP 2FA, and we run multiple in-house properties, including our own website – Melapress.com, on WordPress. We’re searching for a WordPress Plugins & Themes Developer with focus on DevOps to join our fully remote team and grow alongside our senior engineers.

About Melapress

Melapress is a remote software startup that develops several WordPress security, user management, and administration plugins. Our plugins are installed on more than 400,000 websites and help website administrators and managers improve the security of their websites and better manage them and their users.

What you will be doing

As a WordPress plugins & themes developer, you will:

• Theme work: Help develop and maintain the custom theme powering Melapress.com (block editor, performance, accessibility).
• Integrations & DevOps: Create API-driven integrations with services such as MailerLite, Freemius, plugins such as Easy Digital Downloads, and our internal reporting tools.
• Plugin work: Build and refine new features for all our plugins, including Melapress Login Security and Melapress Role Editor.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with the support and product team to troubleshoot and fix bugs in the existing codebase.
• Learning & documentation: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for all the projects you work on.

By working in a small but fast-growing team, other responsibilities (and development opportunities) may come along from time to time.

Skills and experience

• 1–2 years of hands-on WordPress development (plugins and/or themes).
• Solid grasp of PHP, JavaScript (ES6+), CSS/Sass, and MySQL.
• Familiarity with WordPress hooks, actions & filters, REST API, and block editor basics.
• Comfortable with Git, command-line workflows, and local/staging environments.
• Experience building and working with RESTful APIs and handling JSON/XML and other data formats.
• Basic understanding of DevOps concepts (CI pipelines, Composer, WP-CLI, caching).
• Comfortable working in a remote team and capable of working independently.
• Strong communication skills and proficiency in English communication.

Nice to have…

• Recognized author profile in the WordPress space.
• Interest in web security, test automation, or performance profiling.

What we offer

• Competitive salary or rates based on experience.
• The opportunity to work on widely used WordPress security products.
• A small, friendly team where your contributions have a real impact.
• Opportunities to experiment with AI and other cutting-edge tools.

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