Riskified Web Development Team Lead
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Job Summary
Riskified is currently hiring a Web Development Team Lead to join their amazing team
Riskified empowers businesses to unleash e-commerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the worlds biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of e-commerce risk analysts data scientists and researchers Riskifieds AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights. Riskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Acer Gucci Lorna Jane GoPro and many more.
They thrive in a collaborative work setting alongside great people to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.
They thrive in a collaborative work setting alongside great people to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day.
About the role: Theyre looking for a Web Developer Team Lead to own and evolve their global multilingual marketing website built on WordPress. This role sits at the intersection of marketing brand and technology and is accountable for website performance scalability and reliability across regions and languages.
This is a hands-on leadership role. Youll lead a small web development team actively contribute code and set the technical direction for how we build ship test and scale our marketing web platform. Youll work closely with Marketing Design and external partners to deliver a best-in-class digital experience while continuously growing the teams technical maturity.
This is a hands-on leadership role. Youll lead a small web development team actively contribute code and set the technical direction for how we build ship test and scale our marketing web platform. Youll work closely with Marketing Design and external partners to deliver a best-in-class digital experience while continuously growing the teams technical maturity.
What youll be doing
- Technical Ownership & Delivery
- Own the global marketing website end-to-end: architecture performance security scalability and reliability
- Design develop and maintain WordPress sites using Bedrock and Sage with Laravel-based architecture principles
- Build and maintain custom Gutenberg blocks and reusable components
- Lead technical planning and execution for new features integrations and growth experiments
- Optimize site performance SEO accessibility and Core Web Vitals
- Ensure high availability through monitoring maintenance and incident response
- Team Leadership & Growth
- Lead and manage a web development team (minimum 3 years managing developers)
- Perform code reviews define coding standards and enforce best practices
- Mentor coach and grow developers technically and professionally
- Continuously improve team velocity quality and technical excellence
- Engineering Excellence
- Establish and maintain development standards documentation and workflows
- Work with modern local development environments (Docker-based)
- Own CI/CD pipelinesusingGitHub Actions
- Implement and maintain QA testing and automation tools
- Manage infrastructure and edge configuration using Cloudflare and Terraform
- Collaborate effectively with external agencies and vendors owning quality and outcomes
Qualifications
- 6 years of web development experience withdeep expertise in WordPress
- At least 3 years of experience managing or leading a development team
- Strong hands-on experience with Bedrock and Sage (Laravel-based WordPress stack)
- Solid PHP expertise with experience in Laravel / Symfony or similar frameworks
- Strong JavaScript HTML CSS and modern frontend tooling experience
- Proven experience managing multilingual websites at scale
- Experience working closely with marketing and growth teams on high-visibility websites
- Strong understanding of SEO performance optimization and accessibility
- Comfortable owning projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with modern hosting platforms (e.g. Upsub WP Engine Kinsta Pantheon)
Advantage
- Experience withheadless or hybrid WordPress architectures
- Familiarity with marketing tech integrations (CMS CRM analytics experimentation tools)
- Experience in a global or B2B SaaS environment
Perks & benefits
- Hybrid mode of work
- Flexible schedule
- Recharge weekends
- Healthcare & dental benefits
- Fully-stocked kitchens
- Commuter benefits
- Benefits package per monthper your choice e.g. work-from-home equipment gym membership wellbeing activities and program
- Celebrations and activities
- Team events
- Happy hours
- Awesome Riskified gifts and swags
- Volunteer programs
- Personal development
- Global onboarding
- Role-based technical skills training
- Full access to Udemy
If youre ready to take on impactful challenges and excel in a collaborative forward-thinking team we encourage you to get in touch with us
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