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# Lead WordPress Engineer

- **Company:** ADLIB Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0 - £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, DevOps, MySQL, WordPress, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Caching, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** October 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=3010492818-2

## About the Role

* At least five years' professional WordPress development, with deep PHP and WordPress core knowledge.
 * Experience leading engineers and serving as a technical point of contact for clients.
 * Proven architecture and management of large WordPress Multisite networks or production website estates.
 * Strong custom theme, Gutenberg block and plugin development, including ownership of a plugin suite.
 * Hands-on WP-CLI, Composer and Git-based deployment pipeline experience.
 * Confident use of AI-assisted development tools, with the ability to critically review generated code.
 * MySQL performance, caching and CDN knowledge, plus production AWS experience and working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
 * Good JavaScript, including React, and a strong approach to WordPress security.
 * Managed WordPress hosting, headless WordPress, Terraform or e-commerce experience would be advantageous.

## Description

* Lead a dedicated engineering team and shape the technical direction of a large, complex WordPress estate.
 * Own a major platform build from roadmap through delivery, working closely with product, project and client teams.
 * 2 days per month in either Bristol or London, generous benefits, ambitious, supportive environment., As Lead WordPress Engineer, you'll lead the WordPress team and own its codebase, delivery and technical decisions. You'll define the roadmap and scope for a next-generation platform with product and project managers, then guide its build and delivery with a major global music client.You'll act as the technical point of contact, leading requirements and estimation sessions, explaining trade-offs and challenging requests when needed. You'll also oversee the plugin suite, themes and block library; work with DevOps on AWS and Kubernetes hosting; and partner with Service Delivery to plan safe changes across the estate. You'll set quality, security and performance standards, use AI-assisted development tools with sound judgement and mentor engineers as the team develops.