Experienced Software Engineer

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 customized 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 and experienced engineers worldwide, excited to help Automattic’s product ecosystem, and join our mission to make the web a better place.

What have we worked on recently?

• AI is at the heart of many new product developments and powers a lot of our day-to-day development workflows.

• WooCommerce is the most popular and most flexible e-commerce platform on the web. We’re working tirelessly on giving you all the control, while keeping the platform fast and stable.

• Gutenberg is a new block-level editor for WordPress with clean abstractions for users, too, not just developers.

• Tumblr is a microblogging social network where users create, share, and follow what they love.

• To view more of our recent work, check out our longer product list on Automattic.com.

How do we work?

• We’re kind to each other and our users, we build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on building useful products for our customers.

• We work as a global and distributed workforce resulting in a unique way of working built around our creed.

• We offer flexible work arrangements allowing our team members to work when they feel best.

• We open-source! We’re cool with open-sourcing everything except passwords, or secret keys.

• We ship often, deploying many times daily with the help of peer code review, continuous integration, and our global workforce in over 70 countries.

• We welcome collaboration, and you can be involved in any discussion across our many communication channels.

• We encourage you to learn and develop and we support you with what you need, covering expenses, easy internal mobility, coaching.

About you

Working at Automattic might be a good fit if:

• You care and often obsess over the quality and the details of your work.

• Debugging any problem is a fun challenge and not a chore.

• Understanding the layers of abstraction below and above your work isn’t something extra, but how you operate.

• You have production experience with several programming languages, frameworks, and paradigms. We mostly use PHP and JavaScript at Automattic, we expect you to be comfortable with the idea of becoming an expert in these languages, even if being one isn’t a requirement to apply.

• In your mind abstraction is associated as much with cost as it is with value.

• You have experience working at scale, it can be on the backend and performance side, or via the complexity of interacting with a multi-million diverse userbase.

• Are open and able to travel 3-4 weeks per year to meet up with your teammates in person.

These are exciting times at Automattic and you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our products. Join us! We look forward to hearing from you.

Salary and 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.

About Automattic

Now in our 20th year, we’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, 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 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a singular mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single source. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.

We believe in Open Source, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. Automattic is a Most Loved Company, an Equal Opportunity employer, and Disability Confident Committed.

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