Automattic
Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise WordPress
Automattic
$70k - $170k
Worldwide (Remote)
WordPress
React
PHP

Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise WordPress

Overview

Automattic is looking for talented engineers to help push the boundaries of what’s possible with WordPress and the web.

Job Description

WordPress VIP, the enterprise division of Automattic, is the platform for building, maintaining, scaling, and measuring content experiences. Our suite of technologies, services, and integrations combine the ease and flexibility of WordPress with enterprise-grade scalability, security, and data-driven features, to help the largest companies in the world build better digital experiences.

Responsibilities

  • - Developing and maintaining enterprise-ready WordPress plugins
  • - Discovery work, and writing technical design proposals and documentation
  • - Building, debugging, and testing—including writing automated tests and doing manual testing
  • - Participating in release planning and roll-outs
  • - Measuring impact and iterating
  • - Implement solutions end-to-end, from the many layers within WordPress to backend APIs and services
  • - Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders
  • - Implement monitoring, alerting, and automation to improve the observability, reliability, and security of our products
  • - Perform on-call duties on a rotating basis as part of a globally distributed team

Required Skills

  • - Deep, demonstrable knowledge of modern WordPress development and Gutenberg block development and its internal APIs
  • - Skilled in React, PHP, and the WordPress ecosystem
  • - Experience working with a large-scale system to make it faster, more scalable, and more fault-tolerant
  • - Highly collaborative, with a strong enthusiasm for participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture, technical design, and solving customer problems
  • - Knowledgeable about design patterns and testability; experienced with testing frameworks, performance testing, and unit testing is very welcome
  • - Customer-focused mindset, with good instincts on product design and user experience
  • - Willingness to learn

Benefits

  • - Fully-remote company
  • - Open vacation policy
  • - Competitive salary
  • - Diverse and inclusive work environment

About the company

We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.