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Senior Web Developer

Scottsdale, AZ

Make a difference with us! At Alliance Defending Freedom, we believe God has brought you here for His purpose—to stand for truth and defend the God-given right to live and speak it. Together, we protect religious freedom, free speech, the sanctity of life, marriage and family, and parental rights. Review our Statement of Faith to ensure we’re a fit for you.

Location: Scottsdale, AZ 

Team Overview

Join our team as a Senior Web Developer and bring deep WordPress expertise to life through elegant, scalable web solutions. You'll lead the development of complex front- and back-end systems, leveraging your skills in PHP, custom plugin development, and seamless API integrations to power our digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain custom WordPress plugins, themes, blocks, and layouts tailored to business needs.
  • Create responsive, user-friendly interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
  • Customize and extend WordPress themes and custom post types.
  • Optimize performance and scalability across WordPress instances and configurations.
  • Implement best practices in security, coding standards, and maintainability.
  • Design and implement robust integrations with external services (e.g., CRM platforms, marketing automation tools, payment gateways, RESTful APIs), including managing authentication protocols (OAuth, tokens, etc.) and ensuring reliable data exchanges.
  • Collaborate with the Operations team to monitor site uptime, performance, and server logs; ensure timely updates, patches, and backups with minimal downtime.
  • Troubleshoot bugs and user issues with precision and clear documentation.
  • Work closely with product owners, designers, and developers to translate business requirements into technical specifications and implementations.
  • Participate in sprint planning, code reviews, and deployment processes.
  • Mentor junior developers and contribute to improving development workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of professional web development experience with a strong portfolio of WordPress-driven projects.
  • 3+ years working within Agile, SCRUM, or Kanban environments.
  • Solid command of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and responsive design best practices.
  • Proven experience with RESTful APIs and building/maintaining integrations.
  • Proficiency with Git, build tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with accessibility and SEO best practices.
  • Experience with Docker and local development environments (e.g., wp-env).
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies, including SCRUM, Kanban, and sprint cycles.

Preferred Qualification

  • Experience with test automation (e.g., Playwright) and headless WordPress implementations.

Pay & Benefits

At Alliance Defending Freedom, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package to support your well-being and growth. While we do not disclose specific salary ranges, our compensation is competitive with top non-profit law firms. Our benefits include 100% covered medical and dental insurance, medical and dependent care reimbursement, paid disability, long-term care, life insurance, and a 401(k) plan with a 4% company match. We prioritize work-life balance with paid time off and 12 paid holidays each year.

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

  • We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
  • We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
  • We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
  • We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
  • We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
  • We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.
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