WordPress Developer

Job Title: WordPress Developer
Location: Armenia/Serbia
Employment Type: Full-time
About SiGMA World
SiGMA World is a global events, media and technology group working across gaming, emerging technology, digital health and affiliate marketing.
Founded in Malta in 2014, we’ve grown into a team of 450+ people across six global offices in Malta, Cyprus, Serbia, Armenia, Brazil and the Philippines. We bring together businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders from around the world through our events, media, digital products, education, investment and philanthropic initiatives.
Today, SiGMA is home to a diverse portfolio of businesses and brands, giving our team the opportunity to work across different industries, markets and projects.
We’re always looking for talented people who want to grow with us and be part of what we’re building next!
About the role
We're looking for a senior WordPress developer who treats WordPress as a serious engineering platform, not a theme-and-plugins shortcut. You'll build and scale a portfolio of high-traffic, multilingual sites that support our international events and media business. You'll care about architecture, performance, and security as much as shipping features. If you write code that other developers are glad to inherit, and you think about how each block, plugin, and API fits the bigger picture, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain custom themes, plugins, and Gutenberg blocks across a portfolio of high-traffic, multilingual WordPress sites
Develop and maintain libraries, block collections, Composer packages and tooling that speed up delivery across teams
Own quality and performance: refactor legacy code, optimize queries and caching, and hit Core Web Vitals targets
Build and consume REST APIs and integrations with internal and third-party systems
Take part in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and engineering standards
Work with product, marketing, SEO, and content teams on new features and site improvements
Ensure software development best practices and timeliness of product delivery.
Requirement:
5+ years of proven work experience as a WordPress Developer in Object Oriented PHP (8.x, namespaces, PSR-4, Composer)
Deep knowledge of the WP core APIs: hooks, custom post types and taxonomies, meta and custom fields (ACF Pro and native), and WP_Query
Solid production experience building Gutenberg blocks with React, JSX, block.json, and @wordpress/scripts
Strong modern JavaScript (ES6+), plus build tooling (webpack/Vite) and modern CSS (Sass or PostCSS; Tailwind is a plus)
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, including custom WP REST endpoints
Solid grasp of WordPress security (escaping, sanitization, nonces, capabilities) and performance (object caching, query optimization)
Comfortable with Git-based workflows, pull requests, and CI/CD pipelines
Comfortable working in an AI-assisted workflow (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor), with the judgment to review, verify, and take ownership of generated code
Good written and spoken English
Nice to have
Block themes, FSE, theme.json, and the Interactivity API
Experience with Bedrock or similar Composer-based WordPress project structures
Automated testing and static analysis: PHPUnit, Playwright, PHPStan, PHPCS/WPCS
Templating engines or frameworks: Timber/Twig, Blade
Multisite and multilingual setups (WPML, Polylang, or similar)
Headless WordPress (WPGraphQL, Next.js)
Accessibility (WCAG 2.2) and technical SEO
Why SiGMA Group?
Grow with us – Play an important role in SiGMA's continued expansion across Latin America and help strengthen our presence within the land-based gaming industry.
Free iGaming Academy access – Develop your industry knowledge with access to professional courses and training.
Travel perks – Attend major gaming events, visit our international offices and build relationships with industry leaders around the world.
Performance rewards – High performers are recognised and provided with opportunities for career progression through annual reviews and bi-yearly performance check-ins.
International exposure – Work with leading casino operators, gaming companies and senior industry stakeholders across LATAM and SiGMA's wider global network.

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No