Remote WordPress Plugins & Themes Developer at Melapress
Melapress is looking for a Remote WordPress Plugins & Themes Developer to help us build secure, high-impact WordPress products and enhance our web presence. If you’re passionate about WordPress, enjoy writing production-ready code, and want to work with senior engineers maintaining plugins that run on hundreds of thousands of sites, this is your opportunity.
We develop security-focused WordPress plugins such as WP Activity Log and WP 2FA, installed on more than 400,000 websites worldwide. In addition, we manage multiple WordPress properties, including our own site, Melapress.com.
About Melapress
Melapress is a fully remote software startup specializing in WordPress security, user management, and administration plugins. Our mission is to empower website administrators with tools that make WordPress more secure and easier to manage.
What You’ll Do
As a Remote WordPress Plugins & Themes Developer, you’ll:
- Theme Development: Maintain and enhance the custom theme powering Melapress.com, focusing on performance, accessibility, and block editor compatibility.
- Integrations & DevOps: Develop API-driven integrations with services such as MailerLite, Freemius, and plugins like Easy Digital Downloads. Improve workflows with CI pipelines, Composer, and WP-CLI.
- Plugin Development: Build and refine new features for Melapress plugins, including Melapress Login Security and Melapress Role Editor.
- Collaboration: Work closely with support and product teams to troubleshoot, fix bugs, and implement new functionality.
- Documentation: Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for the projects you work on.
As part of a small, fast-growing team, you’ll also have opportunities to take on additional responsibilities and experiment with new technologies.
Skills & Experience
Required:
- 1–2 years of WordPress development (plugins and/or themes).
- Solid knowledge 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 RESTful APIs and handling JSON/XML.
- Basic understanding of DevOps concepts such as CI/CD pipelines, caching, and automation.
- Strong communication skills in English.
Nice to Have:
- Recognized author profile in the WordPress community.
- Interest in web security, test automation, or performance profiling.
What We Offer
- Salary: $20,000 – $40,000/year, depending on experience.
- Work on high-impact, widely used WordPress security products.
- Fully distributed team – work from anywhere.
- Paid time off and company retreats.
- Home office budget.
- A politics-free work environment with no employee monitoring.
- Opportunities to explore AI and emerging tools.
