Senior WordPress Web Developer

Legal Limited
Westlake Village, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 180K

Job location

Westlake Village, United States of America

Tech stack

HTML
JavaScript
Artificial Intelligence
CSS
Interaction Design
Next.js
WordPress
React

Job description

  • This position is 100% in-office in Westlake Village, CA, Monday-Friday, 8AM-5PM PST. Are you able to commute to and work from this location?
  • Provide the URL to your portfolio and briefly describe one custom WordPress site you built from scratch - what made it technically challenging and how you approached the design.
  • Which of the following technologies do you have professional, hands-on experience with?

Requirements

Do you have experience in WordPress?, We are seeking a Senior WordPress Web Developer who builds - not assembles. Someone who writes real code, has an eye for striking design, and takes personal pride in every pixel and line of markup they produce. You'll be building multiple custom WordPress sites per month in a fast-paced, high-output environment where quality and speed are both non-negotiable.

This is a full-time, W2, in-office position at our Westlake Village, CA location. Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST, with flexibility to work beyond those hours when project demands require it.

What You Must Bring (Non-Negotiable)

Please read carefully. Every requirement below must be met to be considered.

WordPress & Development

  • Minimum 5 years of verifiable experience building custom WordPress websites
  • Expert-level use of child themes - you do not rely on pre-built themes
  • Experience building headless or frameless WordPress websites
  • Strong proficiency in CSS, JavaScript, React, Next.js, and HTML
  • Ability to deliver multiple complete, custom WordPress sites per month

Performance & Mobile Optimization

  • Minimum 5 years of experience with mobile optimization
  • Skilled in minification of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for maximum performance
  • Demonstrated ability to achieve high Google Lighthouse scores
  • Strong understanding of SEO best practices implemented at the development level

Design & Creative

  • A genuine eye for design - you create functional, bold, interactive, and visually stunning websites
  • Strong understanding of UX, interaction design, and conversion-focused layout principles
  • A portfolio that demonstrates custom builds, not templates - this is required to apply

Work Style & Mindset

  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with multiple concurrent projects
  • Highly detail-oriented, self-motivated, and accountable - you own your work end to end
  • You do not rely on AI tools or "vibe coding" - we build with expertise, not shortcuts
  • Professional, reliable, and collaborative - a strong team player who also works well independently, * WordPress: 5 years (Required)

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance, * Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

About the company

Legal Leads Group isn't your typical marketing agency - and we're not looking for a typical developer. We're a full-service legal marketing powerhouse built from the ground up by attorneys, accountants, engineers, and developers who got tired of watching law firms get taken advantage of by agencies that didn't understand their business. Our entire team; SEO developers, web designers, paid ads strategists, social media managers, intake specialists, and operations; works in-house under one roof. That's not an accident. It's our competitive advantage. We keep everything internal so we can move fast, stay accountable, and deliver results that actually matter: quality cases that convert to paying clients.

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