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Senior Software Engineer

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Who We're Looking For - Senior Software Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team at Clearlink. In this role, you'll take technical ownership of high-traffic WordPress properties, helping maintain and evolve their applications, integrations, and architecture. You'll design, develop, and optimize enterprise-scale WordPress applications - custom themes, plugins, APIs, and performance improvements - writing secure, testable, maintainable code using PHP and WordPress alongside modern technologies like TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Go. You'll keep consumer-facing websites performant, reliable, and secure, optimize Postgres and MySQL databases, build custom APIs and integrations, and apply solid DevOps practices to ship efficiently. Beyond the code, you'll provide day-to-day engineering leadership across your assigned properties - prioritizing technical improvements, leading design reviews, and reviewing peers' work - while staying hands-on and helping build a team culture grounded in open communication and honest feedback.

The Impact You Will Make

  • Develop high-quality software that aligns with both user needs and business goals.
  • Take technical ownership of high-profile, high-traffic WordPress properties, helping manage, maintain, and evolve their applications, integrations, architecture, and supporting services.
  • Design, develop, maintain, and optimize enterprise-scale WordPress applications, including custom themes, plugins, integrations, APIs, and performance improvements.
  • Write secure, testable, maintainable, and extensible code using industry best practices.
  • Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and cross-functional teams to build and deliver customer-centric technical solutions.
  • Leverage strong expertise in WordPress and PHP, along with modern web technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, Go, and related frameworks, to build performant and responsive web experiences.
  • Ensure the performance, reliability, scalability, and security of high-profile, high-traffic consumer websites, proactively identifying opportunities for optimization and platform improvement.
  • Design and optimize Postgres & MySQL databases and implement effective database strategies.
  • Use modern JavaScript and TypeScript, particularly React, to build dynamic and performant front-end experiences.
  • Apply strong knowledge of DevOps workflows to support efficient development, deployment, and ongoing operation of applications.
  • Work on web applications with service-oriented and high-availability architectures.
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, and delivery speed.
  • Design and build custom APIs and integrations to support rapid product development and connectivity between WordPress and internal or third-party platforms.
  • Use GitHub or similar version control systems to manage and review code.
  • Collaborate closely with team members to foster a culture of open communication, technical excellence, and continuous feedback.
  • Lead or participate in technical design reviews to evaluate and select scalable, maintainable solutions.
  • Review code from other developers, offering constructive feedback to uphold code quality and engineering best practices.
  • Provide technical direction and day-to-day engineering leadership across assigned WordPress properties, including prioritizing technical improvements, improving platform health, and supporting reliable delivery.
  • Participate in the hiring process and mentor junior and mid-level engineers to support skill development and knowledge sharing.

What You Bring 

  • Five (5) years of experience with object-oriented programming and one or more programming languages and frameworks, such as PHP, Java, Node.js, Golang, or JavaScript.
  • Strong hands-on experience developing, maintaining, and supporting WordPress-based applications, including custom themes, plugins, APIs, and third-party integrations.
  • Experience managing and optimizing high-traffic WordPress websites, including performance, caching, security, scalability, and production troubleshooting.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and application architecture.
  • Three (3) years of experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, with strong React experience preferred.
  • Three (3) years of experience testing, maintaining, and launching software products.
  • Experience developing and supporting CMS-driven applications and integrations.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
  • Experience performing root cause analysis across applications, infrastructure, data, and processes to identify issues and opportunities for improvement.
  • Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Bitbucket, Git, or Postman.
  • Strong understanding of application and data security.
  • Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and similar technologies.
  • Ability to understand and work within existing codebases and open-source technologies, identify areas for improvement, and optimize them over time.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership and platform ownership while remaining highly hands-on with development and contributing across multiple products and engineering initiatives.

Perks That Set Us Apart

  • 🩺 Healthcare: We offer low-cost, competitive health coverage (domestic partners included!) with employer-paid counseling services.
  • 💰 Invest in the Future: Enjoy 401(k) matching after just two months of employment, with employer matching starting at ~3%.
  • 🧘‍♀️ Lifestyle Spending Stipends: Access an employer-paid spending account for physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing expenses.
  • 🏝️ Flexible Time Off: We offer competitive time-off balances that accrue weekly, just like your paycheck. (Yes, we’re paid weekly too!)
  • 👶🏻 Parental Leave: We provide 2 weeks of paid parental leave during the first year and up to 9 weeks after one year of employment.
  • ✈️ Generous Paid Holidays: Celebrate cultural diversity with additional flex holidays in addition to our company paid holidays.
  • 🧑‍💻 Flex Schedule: This is a hybrid role. Expect in-office collaboration on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Wednesdays designated as a flex day based on team and manager needs. Remaining workdays are remote, depending on role requirements.
  • 🛟 Comprehensive Life Insurance: Ensure peace of mind with coverage that extends beyond the workplace with employer paid life insurance (including coverage for dependents and spouses).
  • 🤝 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Join us in fostering connections, celebrating diversity, and providing a supportive community for all.

At Clearlink, we go beyond the basics, ensuring your experience with us is not just professionally fulfilling but personally enriching too.

Interviewing at Clearlink

We know interviews can be stressful. Here are some stages you can expect from a typical interview with Clearlink. 

  • Once your application is submitted, we will review it and be in touch
  • 30-min phone call with the Recruiting Team
  • 30-min - 1 hour interview with the Hiring Manager
  • 30-min - 1 hour interview with a Clearlink Panel

Some interview processes can vary, depending on the role. Your recruiter will give you a role-specific interview process during your first phone call.

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Why Work For Us

Since 2001, Clearlink has been dedicated to fostering growth and embracing opportunities. Our mission is to strengthen our workforce to build brands that guide users and customers toward decisions that enhance their lives. We encourage our employees to “Act as an Owner” – to voice their thoughts, share innovative ideas, and authentically bring their whole selves to work. Join us in our forward-thinking and inclusive community, where your expertise, background, and unique perspective are always valued.

Clearlink Partners & Awards: 

  • Partnered with The Period Project for easy access to menstrual hygiene products.
  • Awarded the 2022 Shatter List for breaking glass ceilings in technology.
  • Received the 2023 Women’s Leadership Institute Award, pledging to elevate women’s leadership.

Clearlink Values (CLEAR):

  • Create Community
  • Learn & Grow
  • Embrace Opportunity
  • Act Like An Owner 
  • Respect Every Person

Committed to accessibility, we encourage you to share any accommodation needs during the application or employment process. Your unique strengths matter, and we are dedicated to providing the necessary support for your success at Clearlink.

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