Job Description
About Us Outsourced.ph is a leading ISO certified Philippines offshore outsourcing company that provides dedicated remote staff to some of the world's leading international companies. Outsourced is recognized as one of the Best Places to Work and has achieved Great Place to Work Certification. We are committed to providing a positive and supportive work environment where all staff can thrive. As an Outsourced staff member, you will enjoy a fun and friendly working environment, competitive salaries, opportunities for growth and development, work-life balance, and the chance to share your passion with a team of over 1000 talented professionals.
The Role We are looking for an experienced WordPress Developer to help scale, stabilise, and evolve our platform.
Responsibilities: - Build, extend, and maintain WordPress functionality using custom code rather than off-the-shelf plugins alone.
- Work on a production WordPress platform hosted on Kinsta or similar managed environments.
- Implement and maintain event tracking using Segment and Mixpanel.
- Monitor site performance.
- Deliver features and improvements while clearly articulating tradeoffs made due to time or scope constraints.
- Own your work end to end, including QA and testing before release.
- Collaborate closely with product using Linear for task tracking and prioritisation.
- Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly and proactively via Slack.
- Make thoughtful technical decisions with a long-term platform mindset.
Must-haves: - 3+ years professional experience working on WordPress projects with custom code.
- Strong understanding of WordPress architecture, themes, plugins, hooks, and performance considerations.
- Strong at estimating effort and timelines, communicating confidence levels, assumptions, and risks upfront, and revisiting estimates as scope or constraints change.
- Experience working in managed hosting environments such as Kinsta.
- Hands-on experience implementing analytics and event tracking.
- Comfortable working with PM tools, e.g. Linear.
- High attention to detail and pride in well-finished work.
- Strong written communication skills, especially in async Slack environments.
- Ability to balance speed and quality, and explain tradeoffs clearly.
Tech Stack: Frontend - WordPress
- Custom PHP theme and plugin development
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- jQuery
- REST APIs for internal and third-party integrations,
- Mainly just for Airtable <> WordPress sync.
Backend - PHP
- MySQL
- WordPress core and custom plugins
- Cron jobs and background tasks
- Airtable
Hosting and Infrastructure - Kinsta
- Cloudflare for CDN, and security
- Staging and production environments.
Analytics and Event Tracking - Segment for event routing
- Mixpanel for product analytics and behavioural tracking
- Google Analytics for marketing and traffic insights.
Product and Delivery - Linear - engineering task management
- Slack - communication.
Quality and Monitoring - Manual QA and regression testing
- Performance monitoring via Kinsta and Cloudflare
Design and Collaboration - Figma for design and UX collaboration
Work Arrangement - Home-based ; Should have strong internet connection (minimum of 20 mbps)
Work Schedule - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (PH) &
Wednesday 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM (PH)
Note: As part of our recruitment process, we conduct a background check on all hired candidates. Please ensure that all required documents are prepared and submitted promptly.By clicking on the "I'm Interested" button I hereby allow Outsourced Quality Assured Services, Inc. ("Outsourced") to store and collect my personal information for the purposes of employment application. As such, I agree and authorize Outsourced to collect, store, or continue to use my personal information for the above-stated purpose, and to retain my personal information for a period of 1 year, and for these purposes only.
