About the position
WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine's innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. WP Engine is on a mission to help our customers win online! Whether that's helping an aspiring entrepreneur to turn a hobby into an online business or a multinational corporation to launch a new campaign in weeks instead of months, our platform is there to help them win - whatever that means for them. Our vision is to be the most trusted WordPress technology company in the world. To fulfill that vision, we need your WordPress expertise to help us build compelling solutions for our customers and the WordPress community at large. Placing team success above individual success, our Senior Staff Engineers are expected to help grow their team by mentoring others in their development.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Product Management, Engineering Management, and an agile development team to deliver impactful software rapidly and iteratively
- Provide ongoing technical leadership and mentorship to your teammates and other engineers in the organization
- Write, test, and maintain software applications that are resilient, robust, and perform at scale
- Work closely with business partners to incrementally deliver positive customer inspired outcomes through technology
- Constantly look for opportunities to improve operational efficiency through automation and optimization of code
- Encourage and drive the implementation of industry leading engineering practice
Requirements
- 7+ years of writing software using Agile practices to deliver high quality software addressing customer needs
- Deep understanding of the inner workings of WordPress and how users build with it
- PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript + the ability to quickly adapt to new software language requirements
- Cloud technologies and services - GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, etc.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with experience working with a remote team
- Experience working with CI/CD, testing, deployment pipelines
Benefits
- Equity
- Variable pay plans
- Comprehensive benefits package
