Senior WordPress Developer & Technical Project Manager

Level: SeniorStatus: Full-Time, Salaried (Exempt)Compensation: $70,000-$85,000 per yearSchedule: Hybrid: 2 days in office (Mon & Wed) and WFH on Tues/Thur/FriHours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM or 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM (1-Hour for Lunch)Location: 99 Buss Road, Suite 200, Hopewell, PA 15001 About O2DCA O2 Digital Creative Agency has been thriving as a Software and Marketing Agency in Pittsburgh since 2010. We create a variety of web-based solutions for our clients, from simple brochure sites, to e-commerce sites, mobile apps, and custom business management software platforms. We are professional, people-centric, and dedicated to providing a new and unique experience for our clients through innovative technology and current industry standards. Job Overview We are seeking a Senior WordPress Developer & Technical Project Manager to combine hands-on WordPress and WooCommerce engineering with client-facing ownership of development projects and ongoing website relationships. Reporting to the Managing Developer, the successful candidate will spend approximately 60% of their time on development and 40% on client communication, project planning, coordination, and delivery management. You will lead development-focused client work from discovery and requirements through implementation, QA, launch, and ongoing support. You will serve as the primary contact for assigned website and software projects, translate business needs into clear technical plans, keep clients and internal contributors aligned, and raise scope, budget, timeline, or relationship risks before they become delivery problems. The successful candidate will be a senior technical leader and trusted project owner, guiding other developers through practical mentorship and review while remaining hands-on in delivery. The right candidate can move comfortably between a client conversation, a project plan, an unfamiliar codebase, and a production issue without losing sight of quality, scope, or client expectations. Key Responsibilities Custom WordPress Development: Build and maintain custom themes, blocks, plugins, admin tools, content models, and reusable functionality using WordPress APIs and established coding standards.WooCommerce Engineering: Implement and troubleshoot product, cart, checkout, payment, shipping, tax, subscription, order, and customer-account workflows.Technical Architecture & Integrations: Translate approved designs and business requirements into maintainable architecture, implementation plans, and integrations with CRMs, inventory systems, payment services, marketing platforms, forms, and other third-party APIs.Security, Performance & Reliability: Apply secure development practices and investigate slow queries, caching behavior, asset loading, plugin conflicts, scheduled tasks, failed requests, and production errors across environments.Development-Project Ownership: Manage assigned website and software projects from discovery through launch and ongoing support, with clear ownership of requirements, dependencies, milestones, and next actions.Client Communication: Lead development-focused client meetings, provide concise status and timeline updates, explain technical decisions in plain language, document decisions, and follow up proactively.Discovery & Requirements: Ask effective questions, clarify business goals, identify assumptions and dependencies, and convert client requests into structured, actionable development work.Planning & Coordination: Prepare estimates and schedules, break work into useful tasks, maintain accurate project records, coordinate designers and developers, and remove or escalate delivery blockers.Scope & Risk Management: Identify out-of-scope requests and risks involving budget, timeline, quality, or client expectations. Document the impact and escalate change orders or material decisions to the Managing Developer and executive leadership when appropriate.QA, Launch & Verification: Define acceptance criteria, coordinate internal and client review, confirm issues are resolved, support controlled releases, and verify production behavior after launch.Legacy-Site Improvement: Enter older or unfamiliar codebases safely, diagnose root causes, make proportionate incremental changes, and avoid unnecessary rewrites or dependencies.Technical Leadership: Provide practical guidance and code review to other developers, establish reusable patterns, and help improve development and QA standards without serving as their formal people manager.Operational Visibility: Keep project-management records current enough that clients, contributors, and leadership can understand scope, owners, dependencies, status, and the next required action. What We're Looking For Senior WordPress Experience: 5+ years of professional WordPress development experience, including substantial custom theme, plugin, or application work.Client-Facing Project Experience: 1-2 years leading or coordinating website or software projects in an agency or comparable client-services environment.WordPress Depth: Strong understanding of hooks, template hierarchy, custom post types, metadata, user roles and capabilities, REST APIs, database access, and common deployment concerns.WooCommerce Experience: Practical experience extending and troubleshooting WooCommerce beyond basic catalog or plugin configuration.Core Technical Skills: Strong PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL skills, with the ability to work comfortably in Linux and command-line environments.Integration Experience: Experience consuming third-party APIs, mapping data, handling authentication, logging failures, and designing for retries or partial outages.Project-Management Practice: Experience with a project-management platform such as Teamwork.com, ClickUp, Monday.com, Confluence, or a comparable system, along with disciplined task, decision, and status documentation.Communication: Strong written and verbal communication, confidence leading client calls, and the ability to present requirements, tradeoffs, risks, and timelines clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.Security & Quality: Working knowledge of secure WordPress development, performance considerations, code review, regression testing, and controlled production releases.Development Workflow: Proficiency with Git, local development, staging and production environments, pull requests or review workflows, and release verification.Senior Judgment: Ability to balance maintainability, security, performance, scope, budget, timeline, team capacity, and client impact when recommending an approach.Collaborative Leadership: Comfortable giving clear technical guidance, reviewing work constructively, and holding a high quality bar without formal personnel-management responsibility. 90-120 Day Impact Expectations Client & Project Ownership: Develop working knowledge of assigned clients, active projects, O2DCA services, and internal workflows, then independently lead routine development communication and follow-through.Delivery Visibility: Keep assigned work accurately mapped to scope, owners, dependencies, milestones, risks, and next actions in the project-management platform.Technical Execution: Deliver and support maintainable WordPress and WooCommerce work while demonstrating sound judgment in unfamiliar codebases and production environments.Communication & Scope Control: Reduce stalled work through proactive follow-ups, identify scope or expectation problems early, and bring the Managing Developer clear options when escalation is needed. What We Value Energy & Attitude: Shows up positive, engaged, and ready to contribute to a resilient team dynamic.Ownership & Accountability: Takes personal responsibility for assigned work and project outcomes, follows through, and raises concerns before they become delivery problems.Collaboration & Quality: Works smoothly across departments and does not allow incomplete or unvetted work to reach a client.Attention to Detail: Cares deeply about the details, the data, the client experience, and the final product.Drive: Pushes for better work, better processes, and better outcomes for our clients. Benefits Hybrid Environment: Regular in-person collaboration in Hopewell on Monday and Wednesday, with work-from-home days on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.Technology: O2DCA provides the computing equipment needed for the role.Health & Dental: Generous percentage employer-paid medical and dental plan offerings.Retirement: O2DCA provides a 2% non-elective contribution after 1 year; no employee match is required.Time Off: 3 weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 12 paid holidays.