Hire a Sensei LMS developer fluent in blocks and WooCommerce

The skills a Sensei developer actually needs

Sensei LMS rewards a particular mix of skills. Its courses, lessons and quizzes are built from blocks, its focused Learning Mode is a set of block templates, and its paid courses run on WooCommerce. A developer who is strong in PHP but has never registered a block or debugged a WooCommerce subscription will be slow on a Sensei site. When you hire a Sensei developer from us, you get someone who does all three routinely:

• Block development in JavaScript and React, using block.json and the block editor's data stores
• Theme and template work in the Site Editor, including Learning Mode and the Course Theme
• WooCommerce orders, subscriptions and memberships, and how Sensei Pro maps them to course access

On top of that they know Sensei Pro's feature set well enough to tell you when something is a configuration change rather than a custom build. Drip lessons, conditional content, co-teachers, guest users and cohorts with scheduled access are all there already.

How we choose your developer

We do not recruit per project and we do not use freelancers. Every developer we place is an employee whose Sensei and WooCommerce work we have reviewed on earlier engagements. We then match on your situation. A publisher adding a paid course line needs strong block and pattern skills. A training company running quarterly cohorts needs someone comfortable with groups, enrollment automation and reporting.

Engagement models

Part-time gives you four hours a day on a shared basis, billed weekly in advance with a 40-hour monthly minimum. Full-time gives you a dedicated developer for eight hours a day, billed monthly with a 120-hour minimum and weekly reporting. Hourly engagements are dedicated as well, billed monthly against 160 hours, with a report every day. Each can be onsite, nearshore or offshore, and we agree the overlap hours with your team before work starts.

Onboarding in practice

After the NDA is signed, your developer collects access, sets up a staging site and writes a short audit. It lists your Sensei and Sensei Pro versions, which Pro features are switched on, any custom blocks or template changes, how WooCommerce products map to courses, and anything fragile. A common finding is a subscription setup that assumes learners can switch tiers, which Sensei does not support, so the audit gives you an early warning and a plan.

Keeping you in the loop

You talk to your developer and project manager directly, on Slack, email or your own board. Code lives in a repository you own from day one. If something in Sensei itself is at fault, your developer can check the project's public source on GitHub, apply a local fix through a hook and report the issue upstream. And if the engagement is not working for you, our zero billing guarantee means you are not charged, or you get your payment back.