Code Wrangler

Summary

WordPress doesn’t try to keep its users inside walled gardens, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving away from the open web. Instead, WordPress gives them the freedom to build a business website, an online store, or a personal blog – the way they like it. Big sites or small, using the community-run open source project or Automattic’s WordPress.com, vanilla or customised with hundreds of plugins, WordPress users always get to own and control their data, their expression, and their freedom. We’re always looking for talented engineers worldwide, excited to help Automattic’s product ecosystem, and join our mission to make the web a better place.

Benefits

• • Life Insurance · Life insurance for 2× annual compensation.
• • Employee Assistance Program · A free, confidential, and voluntary support service that provides help for personal problems that may be affecting your health, well being, family life or job performance.
• • Leadership – we offer a variety of leadership options to those who have interest, including becoming a team lead and managing releases.
• • Learning and development – we have a generous personal development budget and encourage you to grow your skills through courses, books and conferences.
• • Architecture – we encourage developers to develop expertise in the systems they work with, guide their evolution and mentor other developers working on them.
• • Engineering effectiveness – we believe in helping other developers become more effective through tools, practices, cross-team collaborations, and process improvements.

Desired Traits and Characteristics

• • Have production experience with several programming languages. We mostly use PHP and JavaScript at Automattic – you should either be familiar with them already or the idea of using them on a daily basis should not be a blocker for you.
• • Have experience working on a large-scale system. Making it faster, more scalable, and fault-tolerant.
• • Know about systems architecture.
• • Are highly collaborative and you love participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture, or design.
• • Are passionate about and experienced in software development; in particular, advanced PHP knowledge is a plus.
• • Are knowledgeable about design patterns and testability; having experience with testing frameworks, performance testing and unit testing is very welcome.
• • Are thoughtful about product design, with good user experience instincts.
• • Are open and able to travel 3-4 weeks per year to meet up with your teammates in person.

Qualifications

• • WordPress programming experience.
• • Open source contributions or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field.
• • Experience working on accessibility.
• • Familiarity with JavaScript.
• • Data analysis experience, and understanding of how analytics can help with product decisions.
• • Knowledge of tooling and build systems.

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.

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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