Web Engineer - EMEA

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Line Management Responsibility: No

Salary: £30k - £50k depending on experience and location

This role is open to all countries within the EMEA region. For candidates based outside the UK, USA and Australia all roles at Human Made are offered as independent contractor agreements rather than direct employment. Contractors are responsible for managing and paying their own taxes and any applicable social security contributions in their country of residence.

Job Overview

At Human Made, we build complex, large-scale WordPress platforms for enterprise organisations. We use modern web technologies to design and deliver performant, scalable, and secure systems that serve our customers over the long term.

We’re a fully remote company, and day to day you’ll be part of a small delivery team. As technical partners to our clients, close collaboration, clear communication, and transparency are essential. We follow agile practices and value engineering excellence and pragmatic solutions, enabling us to ship quickly and deliver strong outcomes.

In-depth experience working with contemporary WordPress practices is essential, including plugin development, block themes, and working with the Site Editor. We build best-in-class flexible, CMS-driven front ends with a strong focus on editorial workflows. Solid PHP knowledge is important, particularly around performance, scalability, and security. JavaScript experience, including developing custom blocks is desirable. We value open-source practices, regularly developing and releasing plugins for internal and community use, and contributing back where possible.

All engineers are expected to show initiative and take ownership in delivering high-quality work across tasks and projects. You will also contribute to the ongoing improvement of our processes, tooling, and engineering practices. We are looking for engineers who are motivated to grow within the company and deepen their technical expertise. More experienced engineers are expected to take on greater technical responsibility, developing stronger domain knowledge, contributing to architectural decisions, and acting as technical lead on projects with progressively less support.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and implement features according to specifications while prioritising tasks and taking initiative to deliver things on time.  
• Working within standardised technical processes that support collaboration and consistency across the team.
• Communicate clearly and consistently with your team and clients, seek guidance early, and raise questions or concerns as they arise.
• Develop and maintain reusable plugins, shared libraries, and internal tooling.
• Refactoring code and carrying out bug fixes.
• Working closely with others as part of a small team.
• Senior engineers take greater project leadership, with ownership over the direction, advocating for best practices and navigating client relationships. 

Requirements

• Experience working with modern WordPress, including block themes and the Site Editor
• In-depth understanding of engineering with PHP and/or JavaScript
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, and front-end best practices, including performance optimisation and accessibility standards
• Ability to debug your own code and that of others, and has experience in using debugging tools.
• Solid understanding of MySQL and the considerations of database-driven applications
• Knowledge of interacting with RESTful APIs and integrating data from external services.
• Experience using Git and GitHub, including branching strategies and pull request workflows.
• Experience managing dependencies using tools such as npm and Composer
• Ability to set up local development environments
• Strong verbal and written communication, good english language skills are essential 
• Ability to manage your workload and juggle multiple tasks
• Interest in AI-assisted development tools and an understanding of their appropriate use and limitations

Benefits

• 100% remote, async‑first culture.
• Enhanced paid parental leave policy
• 35 day holiday policy 
• Company equipment
• Special Exceptions leave for milestone life events (after one year of service)
• Sickness and carers leave
• Regular company retreat
• Conference and training budget
• Remote working allowance
• Matched pension