Web Development Team Lead (WordPress)
About Us
Riskified empowers businesses to unleash ecommerce growth by taking risk off the table. Many of the world’s 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 ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s 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 Booking.com, Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.
We 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
We’re looking for a Web Developer Team Lead to own and evolve our 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. You’ll 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. You’ll work closely with Marketing, Design, and external partners to deliver a best-in-class digital experience while continuously growing the team’s technical maturity.
What You'll 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 pipelines using GitHub 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 with deep 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)
Nice to Have
- Experience with headless or hybrid WordPress architectures
- Familiarity with marketing tech integrations (CMS, CRM, analytics, experimentation tools)
- Experience in a global or B2B SaaS environment
Life at Riskified
We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 750+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.
Our Tel-Aviv team is currently working in a hybrid of remote and in-office work. We have recently moved to our new space in Tel Aviv - check it out here!
Some of our Tel Aviv Benefits & Perks:
- Equity for all employees, Keren Hishtalmut, pension
- Private medical insurance, extra time off for parents and caregivers
- Commuter and parking benefits
- Team events, fully-stocked kitchen,lunch stipend, happy hours, yoga, pilates, functional training, basketball, soccer
- Wide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact
- Commitment to your professional development with global onboarding, skills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns
- Awesome Riskified gifts and swag!
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Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.