Position: Sr PHP/WordPress Developer
Position Type: Full time, Permanent (Existing Vacancy)
Reports To: Sr Director, Digital Platforms & Delivery
Location: Remote within Toronto, ON
The Company:
Postmedia is a Canadian news media company representing more than 110 brands across multiple print, online and mobile platforms. Award-winning journalists and innovative product development teams bring engaging content to millions of people every week whenever and wherever they want it.
This exceptional content, reach and scope offers advertisers and marketers compelling solutions to effectively reach target audiences. We are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team.
The Opportunity:
The Senior PHP/WordPress Developer is a high-impact technical role responsible for the architecture, development, and stability of our enterprise-scale WordPress VIP (WPVIP) ecosystem. We are looking for a "developer's developer"—someone who views high-quality code as a baseline and sees automated testing and continuous delivery as essential to the craft.
This individual acts as a technical anchor and servant leader, utilizing Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) to ensure quality and reliability. You will be the "tide that raises all ships," proactively mentoring others in engineering best practices while taking full initiative over the delivery lifecycle.
Why This Role Matters:
You provide the technical rigour that allows our team to move fast without breaking things. By embedding testing and automation into the heart of our workflow, you enable the organization to scale confidently while mentoring the next generation of engineers.
What you’ll do:
WPVIP, PHP & Engineering Excellence
- Architect bespoke, high-performance WordPress themes, plugins and solutions optimized for the WPVIP platform.
- Write clean, modular PHP (8.x) using OOP and SOLID principles to ensure code is maintainable and VIP-standard compliant.
Testing & Continuous Delivery
- BDD Implementation: Drive collaboration efforts with stakeholders using BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) to create a shared understanding.
- Test-First Mindset: Implement and advocate for ATDD (Acceptance Test-Driven Development) and TDD (Test-Driven Development) practices to ensure an executable understanding of the intended behavior that will drive development.
- CD Pipeline Stewardship: Own and optimize Continuous Delivery pipelines using VIP-CLI and GitHub Actions, ensuring every commit is "deploy-ready" through automated linting, unit testing, and integration tests.
Agile Collaboration & Servant Leadership
- Act as a servant leader by removing technical blockers and facilitating pair programming to socialize testing best practices across the team.
- Proactively identify technical debt and platform risks, taking the initiative to refactor code for better testability and performance.
Who you are:
- 7+ years of professional PHP experience, with deep expertise in the WordPress VIP ecosystem.
- Testing Mastery: Proven experience with testing frameworks (e.g., PHPUnit, Playwright, Behat, or Cypress) and a commitment to TDD/BDD workflows.
- CI/CD Proficiency: Expert knowledge of modern Continuous Delivery practices and WPVIP-specific deployment constraints.
- Full-Stack Skills: Strong command of React (Gutenberg), ES6+, and REST/GraphQL API integration.
- Performance & Security Tooling: Extensive experience with tools such as PHPCS, New Relic, Query Monitor, WPScan and K6/WebPageTest.
- Engineering Excellence: BDD, ATDD, TDD and CI/CD.
- Technical Stewardship: WPVIP architecture and high-scale PHP.
- Servant Leadership: Empowering others through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
- Proactive Initiative: A self-starter who defines "done" as tested, documented, and deployed.
Compensation:
Employment offers presented to the selected candidate are based on a combination of qualifications, experience, responsibilities of the role and the candidate's location.
Base Salary: $85,000 - $95,000
AI Use:
Please note that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are not permitted during live interviews. We want to ensure we are engaging with you authentically and evaluating your personal problem-solving skills. Postmedia does not use AI tools during any stage of the interview process.
We thank in advance all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered. No phone calls or agencies please.
Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in all areas of the hiring process. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please make your needs known in advance. Accommodation requests will be provided on an individual basis.
Postmedia Network Inc. is committed to employment equity and an inclusive barrier-free selection process and work environment. Postmedia Network Inc. encourages applications from women, aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
