Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join WordPress VIP, the enterprise division of Automattic, and become an essential part of a team building and evolving products for high-profile websites. You will contribute to the entire product lifecycle, from design and development to testing and deployment. This role requires deep knowledge of WordPress, Gutenberg, and related technologies, along with experience in large-scale system development. Collaboration and a customer-focused mindset are crucial. Automattic offers a fully remote work environment with an open vacation policy and a competitive salary.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise-ready WordPress plugins
• Conduct discovery work, and write technical design proposals and documentation
• Build, debug, and test—including writing automated tests and doing manual testing
• Participate in release planning and roll-outs
• Measure impact and iterate
• Implement solutions end-to-end, from the many layers within WordPress (frontend, Gutenberg, wp-admin, drop-ins, etc.) to backend APIs and services and the underlying orchestration system
• 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, including troubleshooting failed actions and fixing underlying issues in services

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with enterprise-scale WordPress deployments
• Have real-world experience with security: incident response, threat modeling, working on bug bounty programs, hardening systems, etc
• Be skilled in working with data: visualizing data, analyzing data, building data pipelines, Applied AI/ML, etc
• Have a history of developing large-scale publishing platforms for major digital media or publishing brands
• Have knowledge of the publishing process and editorial workflows
• Have open source contributions, or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field

Benefits

• Salary range: $70,000-$170,000 USD
• Fully-remote company with an open vacation policy