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Envato is hiring a Senior Reviewer to assess the quality, security, usability, documentation, and commercial readiness of code and web-template marketplace submissions. The role covers WordPress themes and plugins, HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP assets, scripts, UI templates, template kits, and related web products. The reviewer will make consistent approval or rejection decisions, escalate complex risks, and help improve review standards, calibration, and team documentation. This is a technically hands-on quality role requiring strong full-stack judgment, written communication, and the ability to maintain throughput without compromising marketplace trust.
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I would install it in a clean test environment, verify setup instructions, and test core functionality across supported WordPress and PHP versions. I would assess code organization, responsiveness, accessibility basics, performance, dependency handling, customization options, licensing, and documentation. I would document reproducible issues and distinguish between blocking defects and improvement opportunities using the marketplace standards.
Blocking issues would include broken core functionality, insecure practices such as unsanitized input handling, malware or obfuscated code, missing required documentation, unsupported or undisclosed dependencies, serious responsiveness or browser-compatibility failures, and intellectual-property concerns. I would also reject assets with poor maintainability, misleading functionality, or insufficient commercial value when they do not meet category standards.
I use structured checklists aligned to category-specific criteria and record clear evidence for each decision. I calibrate regularly with peers using examples of edge cases, monitor recurring decision patterns, and update guidance when standards or technologies change. This approach keeps decisions objective while allowing appropriate judgment for each asset type.
I would inspect input validation, output escaping, authentication and authorization controls, file-upload handling, database queries, secret management, external requests, and third-party dependencies. I would look for common vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL injection, insecure direct object references, unsafe deserialization, and outdated packages. Any serious or ambiguous risk would be documented with evidence and escalated through the defined review process.
I would provide specific, neutral, and actionable feedback tied to the published standards. For example, I would identify the affected file or workflow, explain the customer or technical impact, and state what successful remediation looks like. I would prioritize blocking issues first and avoid subjective language so the contributor can address the feedback efficiently.
About Us
At Envato, we empower creative pros to thrive.
We’re here to help creatives bring their ideas to life, supercharge their workflows, and equip them with an unparalleled toolkit they can use anywhere. With unlimited access to world-class assets, innovative AI tools, and hands-on tutorials, we deliver what creatives need today – and are continually evolving our offering. As AI transforms the creative landscape, we’re committed to building what’s next for the future.
We’re a purpose-driven company and we’ve long embraced flexible, inclusive ways of working. We’re proud of the connected culture we’ve built across our global team. Our values: Customer First, Build our Future, Make it Happen and Embrace Diversity guide everything we do, shaping how we work and grow.
You can read more about us on our blog, including news of our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.
About the role
The Senior Reviewer, Code & Web Templates is responsible for reviewing, assessing, and maintaining quality standards across Envato’s broad code and web template categories, including Web Themes & UI Templates, Template Kits, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, Scripts, Plugins, and Code assets.
As Envato continues to evolve its Content Operations model, this role will help consolidate review expertise into a smaller, stronger, and more scalable team in Mexico. The Senior Reviewer will be expected to apply expert judgment across the full Code Review landscape, ensuring that submissions meet Envato’s technical, usability, security, originality, documentation, and commercial-quality expectations.
This role plays a critical part in protecting customer trust, supporting contributor quality, improving review consistency, and helping Envato maintain a high-quality marketplace experience across its web, theme, template, and code categories.
What you’ll be doing
Scope of Review Coverage
- This role may review and support quality decisions across the following asset groups:
– Web Themes & UI Templates.
– Site Templates.
– UI Templates.
– Template Kits.
– ThemeForest categories, excluding areas that require separate specialists. handling where applicable.
– WordPress themes.
– WordPress plugins.
– Scripts.
– Plugins.
– Code assets.
– Front-end templates and components.
– Admin dashboards, landing pages, HTML templates, and related web products.
– PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and CMS-based assets. - Deep specialization in every domain is not required from the outset. However, this role requires a strong full-stack technical foundation, practical hands-on experience, and the learning agility necessary to effectively review, assess, and contribute across all relevant areas at a high professional standard.
Content Review & Quality Assessment
- Review and assess submissions across all code and web template categories against Envato’s technical, quality, usability, documentation, security, and commercial standards.
- Apply review criteria consistently across all asset types, including design quality, code quality, functionality, responsiveness, browser compatibility, accessibility, performance, security, dependency management, documentation, installation and setup experience, originality, and commercial value, while adapting standards to the specific expectations of each category.
- Identify and reject submissions that do not meet marketplace standards, including those with poor code quality, broken functionality, inadequate documentation, security concerns, excessive dependencies, low originality, poor usability, intellectual property risks, or limited commercial value.
- Provide clear, objective, and constructive review outcomes aligned with established review guidelines.
Risk Management & Escalation
- Identify complex, ambiguous, or high-risk submissions and escalate them to the appropriate stakeholders for further review.
- Recognize emerging category risks, contributor patterns, and quality concerns that may impact marketplace standards or customer trust.
Standards, Documentation & Continuous Improvement
- Support calibration activities to ensure consistency and alignment of review standards across the Code Review team.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of review documentation, category standards, technical benchmarks, and reviewer enablement materials.
- Identify recurring contributor issues, operational bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve review quality, efficiency, and consistency.
- Stay current with modern web development practices, WordPress, JavaScript frameworks, UI/UX trends, plugin ecosystems, marketplace expectations, and AI-assisted development trends.
Team Collaboration & Operational Support
- Partner with Content Operations leaders to support the evolution of the review function, including the transition from a larger contractor model to a smaller, highly skilled, cross-functional Mexico-based review team.
- Maintain productivity and turnaround expectations while ensuring quality, consistency, and customer trust are not compromised.
- Act as a subject matter expert in code and web template review, supporting team knowledge sharing, reviewer development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
About you
Key Capabilities
- Strong full-stack development background with practical experience across front-end and back-end web development, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress themes and plugins, scripts, and web templates – covering responsive design, browser compatibility, performance optimization, and accessibility basics.
- Strong understanding of WordPress ecosystems including template hierarchy, installation workflows, customization, dependencies, and common marketplace quality issues.
- Strong understanding of clean code practices, file organization, naming conventions, documentation standards, version compatibility, and user setup experience.
- Ability to identify common technical risks including broken functionality, poor code structure, weak security practices, performance issues, unsupported dependencies, and poor customer usability.
- Strong eye for commercial quality, customer value, modern design execution, and marketplace relevance.
- Ability to use AI-assisted tools to support review throughput, code analysis, and other workflow and productivity efficiencies.
- Ability to make consistent, objective, and well-reasoned review decisions across multiple asset categories.
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly and professionally.
- High attention to detail with the ability to identify technical and quality issues quickly.
- Comfortable maintaining strong quality standards while meeting productivity and turnaround expectations.
- Ability to collaborate with global teams in a remote or hybrid environment.
- Fluent or strong professional proficiency in English.
Required Technical Coverage
This role requires solid working knowledge across several relevant technical domains, with the adaptability and learning agility needed to develop proficiency across the broader review scope over time.
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and responsive web development
- PHP and WordPress development.
- WordPress themes and plugin ecosystems.
- Site Templates and UI Templates.
- Template Kits and page-builder-based assets.
- Scripts, plugins, and reusable code products.
- Installation, configuration, dependency management and documentation review.
- Code quality, security basics, compatibility, performance, and maintainability.
- Marketplace asset quality standards and customer usability expectations.
Additional Experience
- Previous experience reviewing or creating assets for a digital marketplace.
- Familiarity with Envato’s marketplaces, including ThemeForest and CodeCanyon.
- Deeper specialisation in one or more areas beyond the required technical coverage.
- Experience in QA, technical validation, software testing, content review, or marketplace operations.
- Familiarity with intellectual property, licensing, open-source dependencies, and AI-assisted code generation risks as they apply to marketplace submissions.
- Experience supporting process improvement, reviewer calibration, documentation, or category quality standards.
Compensation
Additional Information
Life at Envato
• Flexible Working: remote-first with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need.
• Work from Anywhere: apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.
• Conoce Mexico: a unique travel benefit for you to explore and visit new places across Mexico.
• Connection Budget: an annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.
• Learning Budget – Study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.
• Home Office Allowance: contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
• Wellbeing: access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
• Volunteer Leave: 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.
• Parental Leave: 20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
• Christmas Bonus, Paid Holidays and Holiday Bonus: we offer 30 days paid in December, you will have 12 days vacation in the first year, and you will earn 100% of holiday bonus.
• Grocery tickets: we offer you a monthly amount of 5% (subject to the legal cap) in food vouchers, which can be used in markets, pharmacies and more.
• 5% Saving Funds (fondo de ahorro).
• Private Health Insurance (SGMM).
• Unlimited Ebooks.
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