Senior Web Developer

CAMP Digital, part of Digital Local & Home Services, LLC, is looking for a Senior Web Developer to provide client-facing technical leadership, optimize performance, and scale a portfolio of 300+ WordPress sites. This onsite role in Edina, Minnesota offers a salary between $70,000 and $75,000 per year and a collaborative environment where cross-functional teams partner to drive technical initiatives, mentor peers, and deliver reliable, high-performance websites.

Responsibilities

• Oversee WordPress and Elementor work across a large portfolio, maintaining, updating, and optimizing 300+ sites using Elementor Pro and advanced configuration strategies.
• Build and manage API integrations that connect WordPress ecosystems with external apps, CRMs, marketing automation platforms, and third‑party services via custom integrations and webhooks.
• Guard database health and scalability across the network, monitoring performance and ensuring fast queries and structural stability under high traffic.
• Own end-to-end site performance improvements, analyzing and resolving bottlenecks to achieve top-tier Core Web Vitals scores across sites.
• Implement advanced technical SEO and analytics setups, including schema markup, crawl optimization, GA4, GTM, and custom data layers, while preserving site speed.
• Engage directly with clients to understand needs, explain technical concepts clearly, and translate engineering details into actionable business insights.
• Coordinate with designers, marketers, and account managers to align technical execution with broader project goals.
• Identify and resolve technical or logistical roadblocks to keep multi-site projects on schedule.
• Lead portfolio-wide initiatives, establish workflows, maintain code quality, and mentor junior and mid‑level developers.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain constraints, solutions, and strategies to both non-technical clients and internal stakeholders.
• Proven project management aptitude, capable of handling timelines and prioritizing tasks across a large portfolio under pressure.
• Strong problem-solving mindset, with a track record of methodically addressing complex roadblocks.
• Enterprise-level WordPress experience, including managing and scaling a substantial site portfolio.
• Advanced proficiency with Elementor Pro, including dynamic content integration, loop builders, and template optimization.
• API expertise with the WordPress REST API, external REST/SOAP APIs, JSON, and authentication protocols (OAuth, JWT).
• Deep database optimization knowledge for MySQL/MariaDB, including indexing, query tuning, and scalable cleanup.
• Extensive experience with page speed optimization, caching (Redis/Memcached), asset minification, critical CSS, and CDN management.
• Strong coding proficiency in PHP, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3/SASS, and version control with Git.

Technologies

• WordPress
• Elementor Pro
• REST API
• SOAP APIs
• GA4
• GTM
• OAuth
• JWT
• MySQL
• MariaDB
• Redis
• Memcached
• CDN
• PHP
• JavaScript (ES6+)
• HTML5
• CSS3/SASS
• Git

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Preferred Qualifications

• Custom development experience building WordPress themes and plugins from scratch using object-oriented PHP to reduce reliance on third-party plugins.
• Prior formal experience in leadership roles such as Team Lead, Technical Project Manager, or Engineering Manager.

Experience

• PHP: 3 years (Preferred)
• WordPress: 3 years (Preferred)
• Front-end development: 3 years (Preferred)