Playground Wrangler

Summary

WordPress Playground needs a developer to help us shape the future of WordPress. We’re looking for a senior person, interested equally in the technology, the people using the technology, and the big picture.

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.

Required Skills

• 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).

Additional Information and Instructions

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.

About Automattic

We are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. We believe in making the web a better place. We’re a distributed company with more than 1900 Automatticians in 96 countries speaking 120+ different languages. And, even more than growth and profitability (although we’re plenty profitable), above all, we’re driven by a mission: We democratize publishing and commerce so anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or country.

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