Lead Engineer (WordPress + React / Hybrid Architecture)

🧩 About Alts

Alts Digital is a fast-growing, bootstrapped group that builds digital ventures shaping how people engage with information, make decisions, and create value online. We specialize in guiding users to the best services for their needs, driving customer acquisition for leading brands in the iGaming and fintech sectors. Based in Portugal and operating as a remote-first company, our diverse team of 50+ members from + 10 countries serves thousands of customers worldwide. As founders, designers, adventurers, coders, parents, and animal lovers, we move fast, think ambitiously, and are passionate about building products that make an impact. We’re excited to welcome a new Lead Engineer to join our journey. 🚀

💻 About the role

You’ll take ownership of a high-traffic WordPress stack that’s evolving toward a hybrid architecture. Your job is to keep the current system fast and stable while leading the gradual transition to a more modern front-end layer (React/Next.js). This is a hands-on role with leadership responsibility for a small dev team.

We work in a product space where gaming, blockchain data, and high-scale user experience intersect. The work calls for systems thinking and curiosity about how things fit together. We’re also looking for someone who actively leverages modern AI tooling in development and is able to help establish those workflows within the team.

The goal is not only to ensure WordPress runs optimally, but to shape how the overall platform evolves technologically over the coming years.

👩‍💻 What You’ll Be Doing

• Own the technical direction of our WordPress stack, ensuring stability, scalability, and site performance.

• Improve stability, performance, caching, and deployment workflows.

• Define coding standards, code review practices, and basic automated testing.

• Architect and document interfaces between WordPress and React/Next.js components.

• Lead incremental transition to a hybrid stack (not a full rebuild).

• Ensure technical SEO remains intact during changes.

• Plan and oversee development work with Product and Design teams.

• Mentor developers and help shape team structure over time.

🧠 Your Attitude & Background

• Strong experience operating large-scale WordPress environments (not brochure sites).

• Solid skills in PHP 8, JS, MySQL, caching layers, and scalable hosting setups.

• Experience with modern JS frameworks (React/Next.js).

• Ability to balance legacy stability with pragmatic modernization.

• Comfortable leading small teams and enforcing technical discipline.

• Familiar with technical SEO considerations.

• Comfortable working in a product space that blends crypto, iGaming, and on-chain analytics.

• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools to accelerate work in a disciplined way.

✔️ Nice to have

• Experience with headless or hybrid WordPress architectures.

• CI/CD, staging parity, and QA workflow setup experience.

• Interest in data transparency, fairness mechanics, probabilistic systems, or on-chain analysis.

🎁 Benefits You’ll Receive

• Workation: A mix of work and vacation. Once a year, we find a cool place to work and have fun together.

• Alts Ville: We have a house in the stunning Madeira Island available for all employees who want to spend some time with friends, colleagues, and family 🏝️

• Health Insurance. We value the well-being and health of our team. To ensure that everyone feels cared for, we offer Health Insurance 🏥

• 1.000€ / year - financial support in other areas of your life, e.g., professional development.

• We offer a 100€ monthly voucher to use in co-working spaces. Working remotely doesn’t have to mean working from home every day.

Join us!