Playground Wrangler

Summary

Join WordPress Playground as a Senior Developer to contribute to the future of WordPress. You will be responsible for building fundamental PHP tools for WordPress Core, reading specifications and standards, and creating prototypes to engage the community. You will also collaborate with other Automattic teams and contribute to the open-source community.

Requirements

• We’d like you to have built something in one or two areas listed below which required a deep dive into those areas. Three is more than enough
• Web Assembly
• Offline apps
• Live collaboration
• Mobile apps
• Stream-processing data
• Parsers
• Browser extensions
• Web browser internals (e.g. chromium codebase)
• PHP internals (the C codebase)
• Git internals (the .git store, the protocol)
• Helping define new web standards (e.g. contributing to WASM standards discussions, participating in PHP mailing lists, proposing RFCs for WordPress – even if there’s no RFC process in place)

Responsibilities

• Build fundamental, low-level PHP tools intended for inclusion in WordPress Core (e.g. WP<->WP synchronization , streaming parsers , git clients )
• Read specifications, RFCs, web standards proposals (e.g. WHATWG HTML spec , git protocol , JSPI proposal )
• Publish rough, half-baked prototypes to inspire the community and draw out the early reactions (e.g. a WordPress IDE , recording WordPress (test runs) with Playwright , a Blueprints builder )
• Coordinate with the community and other Automattic teams
• Develop code for WordPress Playground, both in TypeScript and PHP, submit well described Github issues and pull requests, and engage in discussion and code reviews
• Communicate in a friendly and professional way with community members and help them take submissions over the finish line
• Make use of existing documentation resources and examples, and improve them where you see fit or make improvements to the APIs to help the community to achieve tasks faster

Benefits

• Salary range: $70,000-$170,000 USD - Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency
• We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for Automattic. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated
• We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components
• This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy