Project: Agency Catalog platform rebuild (data-driven agency discovery platform)
We are looking for an experienced freelance WordPress developer to support the development and scaling of our Agency Catalog — a platform that helps businesses discover, evaluate, and connect with digital marketing agencies. The current catalog contains 700+ agency listings across 5 languages and will be rebuilt as a standalone platform on a subdomain, evolving into a data-driven, SEO-first marketplace built on structured data and scalable architecture.
The new platform will include:
Frontend dashboards for agency owners without wp-admin access
Self-service profile editing and moderation
Multi-level AJAX filtering with SEO-friendly URLs
Agency comparison
Async rating system integrated with an external API
Full multilingual data and SEO migration
What you’ll do
Review the existing codebase and propose the target architecture
Build custom WordPress plugins and frontend functionality
Implement responsive layouts based on Figma designs
Build user dashboards, roles, permissions, and ownership logic
Implement filters, comparison, multilingual routing, and API workflows
Test critical functionality and support the production launch
What we’re looking for
4+ years of custom WordPress development
Strong PHP and object-oriented programming skills
Strong knowledge of CPTs, taxonomies, users, roles, capabilities, WP_Query, and WordPress APIs
Advanced ACF Pro experience
Strong HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills
Experience implementing responsive Figma designs
Experience building frontend dashboards and custom REST API endpoints
Strong understanding of WordPress security, permissions, validation, sanitization, and escaping
Experience with Polylang or WPML
Experience building AJAX filters with URL synchronization
Experience integrating external APIs and handling background jobs
Strong understanding of frontend performance and Core Web Vitals
Experience migrating WordPress content, taxonomies, media, translations, SEO metadata, and redirects
Strong Git skills and comfort with pull requests and code reviews
There is no dedicated QA engineer, so testing and production readiness are part of the developer’s responsibility.
Nice to have
Composer, namespaces, and autoloading
Tailwind CSS
ACF JSON sync
Action Scheduler
Experience with retries, idempotency, and failure logging
WP-CLI and custom migration commands
PHPUnit, Playwright, or Cypress
Redis or persistent object caching
Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Algolia
Experience with multilingual directories or marketplaces
About SE Ranking:
SE Ranking is the company behind a powerful and intuitive SEO platform trusted by over a million businesses, agencies, and SEO professionals since 2013.
The software began as an instrument for monitoring and reporting on web page rankings and grew into a completely integrated SEO platform with over 30 tools that provide reliable data with clear insights for every step of the SEO process and allow the crafting of complex SEO strategies. With a commitment to simplicity and effectiveness, the SE Ranking platform boasts a clean, user-friendly interface tailored to make website optimization easy to access and painless to scale.
The SE Ranking workplace comprises 150+ talents from all over the globe. As a remote-first company, we strive to offer every team member a proper work-life balance. We take care of our employees’ physical and mental health by providing them with the relevant benefits. We value curiosity, creativity, dedication to life-long learning, transparent internal communication, and constructive feedback. To help every team member thrive and reach their full potential, we nurture a dynamic and supportive work environment that sparks growth.
