Senior Web Developer

Why Join Tipalti? Tipalti is the AI-powered platform for finance automation, elevating how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. Our platform provides a comprehensive suite of finance automation solutions designed for mid‑market businesses across accounts payable, global payouts, procurement, employee expenses, corporate cards, supplier management, tax compliance, and treasury. Tipalti partners with leading financial institutions such as Citi, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan, and Visa, enabling over 5,000 global companies to efficiently and securely pay millions of suppliers and payees across 200+ countries and territories, in 120 currencies.

Position Summary You’ll operate as a senior individual contributor and the de facto technical lead across our marketing web properties—owning architecture direction, enforcing coding standards, driving performance excellence, and accelerating high‑quality feature delivery. You’ll mentor and oversee contractors, elevate engineering practices, and ensure our WordPress + modern JavaScript stack remains fast, maintainable, and experimentation‑ready.

In This Role, You Will Be Responsible For

Architecture Ownership: Evaluate, refactor, and evolve the WordPress/PHP and frontend JavaScript architecture to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance across all marketing web properties.

Coding Standards & Governance: Establish and document front‑end/back‑end standards (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, performance, security basics); drive adoption through PR reviews and mentoring.

Performance Optimization: Partner with WebOps to enhance site performance.

Feature Delivery: Plan and implement new site features, embedding best practices for performance, accessibility, and maintainability in every release.

Code Review & Quality: Maintain timely PR reviews, strengthen automated testing across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end levels, and ensure regressions are detected early through robust review and test practices.

Technical Leadership: Provide direction, unblock issues, and ensure consistent output quality.

Tech Debt Management: Systematically reduce technical debt by refactoring outdated templates, consolidating redundant scripts, and eliminating non‑standard plugin dependencies to enhance platform stability and scalability.

Analytics & Experimentation Enablement: Design, implement, and maintain robust tracking infrastructure and data‑layer taxonomy to support accurate analytics, event tagging, and A/B testing.

About You

8+ years professional web development experience; 4+ years hands‑on WordPress/PHP development at scale.

Demonstrated lead‑level influence (mentoring, establishing standards)

Deep proficiency in PHP, modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3/SCSS, with a strong grasp of code architecture principles (Model‑View‑Controller). Skilled in asynchronous programming patterns and API integrations (REST/JSON).

Proven record of improving page performance and Core Web Vitals on marketing or content‑heavy sites.

Testing mindset: comfortable with unit (PHPUnit), integration, and end‑to‑end (Playwright or similar) test strategies.

Hands‑on experience diagnosing and resolving cross‑browser/front‑end compatibility issues (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) and responsive layout bugs across major mobile viewports.

Experience conducting rigorous code reviews and enforcing coding standards.

Ability to coordinate and technically lead contractors (provide clear tasks, feedback, quality gates).

Ability to context switch between architectural work and hands‑on feature implementation.

Our Benefits Package Includes

Hybrid working model that requires you to be in the Plano office on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday

Competitive salary and equity

Matching 401K

Extended benefits, Employee Assistance Program, life insurance, AD&D, LTD

Maternity, Paternity and Fertility Treatment benefits

15 days of PTO

Subsidized lunch on office days

Fresh fruit, snacks & drinks in office

Phone/internet allowance

Regular company‑wide social events

Multiple ERG groups celebrating our diversity and creating an inclusive culture

Base Salary Range: $96,000 ‑ $120,000 CAD annually.

Bonus: Target bonus 10% of base salary. Bonus entitlement is based on a combination of organizational results, individual performance, and relative contribution, as assessed by Tipalti in its sole discretion, to be formalized and communicated to you following your start date.

We are committed to equitable compensation practices in compliance with applicable employment laws.

Accommodations Tipalti champions inclusive teams, in which every voice counts. We are committed to recruiting diverse candidates with varied personal experiences and abilities. We welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, and maintain an equitable Talent Acquisition process that is free from discrimination.

As an equal opportunities employer, Tipalti complies with employment and human rights laws across the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Should you require reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, including access to alternate formats of materials, meeting spaces, or other accommodations that could better enable your full participation, please reach out to hr@tipalti.com for assistance.

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