About Optimism

Optimism is a digital publisher working to build a brighter web. We conceive, launch, and

operate high-quality digital brands that spark curiosity, spread positivity, and improve the

lives of our readers. With an email-first approach, our hope is to transform the inbox into a

healthy alternative to social media feeds, a place where you can curate the news, information,

and entertainment you truly want.

Our brands populate a variety of categories: Lifestyle, Games, Wonder, and Travel, among

others. This distributed approach helps us reach 3 million subscribers across our network and

serve more than 30 million web sessions each month. And we’re growing with each new

brand.

WordPress Developer

This is a unique role, we are looking for an individual who would consider themselves an

expert in all things Wordpress, Our primary CMS is Wordpress, hosted via WPVIP as a

multisite instance. We develop using Gutenberg blocks and are constantly launching new

brands using the framework. We would like to add a team member to help us focus on brand

launches and optimizations of existing brands.

Accountabilities

• WordPress theme development for branch launches
• Using Gutenberg Blocks for the development of new brands and existing optimizations
• Ensuring code quality and best practices
• Optimization of existing brands

• Expert knowledge of modern WordPress
• Experience working with ACF
• Experience in the cloud, we use both AWS and GCP
• Experience with Git
• Experience with React
• Experience working remotely
• Able to work EST Timezone