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Experienced Software Engineer
Automattic
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- Salary range: $70,000-$170,000 USD
- Talented and experienced engineers (experience level)
- Open vacation policy (key benefit)
- Are open and able to travel 3-4 weeks per year to meet up with your teammates in person (notable requirement)
Role overview
Automattic is looking for talented and experienced engineers worldwide to help build and support our product ecosystem, including WordPress, WooCommerce, and Tumblr, joining our mission to make the web a better place.
Responsibilities
- Help Automattic’s product ecosystem
- Join our mission to make the web a better place
- Shape the future of our products
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- We cover expenses, easy internal mobility, coaching to encourage you to learn and develop
- Salary range: $70,000-$170,000 USD (global, regardless of location, paid in local currency)
- Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated
- A straightforward, competitive base salary, providing financial clarity without complex variable components
- A fully-remote company with an open vacation policy
- Full list of benefits by country available on our Benefits Page
Additional details
- WordPress gives users the freedom to build a business website, an online store, or a personal blog – the way they like it, allowing them to own and control their data, their expression, and their freedom
- Recent work includes AI powering product developments and workflows, WooCommerce (flexible e-commerce platform), Gutenberg (block-level editor for WordPress), and Tumblr (microblogging social network)
- We work with a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on building useful products for 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 team members to work when they feel best
- We open-source 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
- Engineering team members include Code Wranglers – Brandon, Jeremy, Mark, Jennifer, Roy and Kat
- Application process includes paying extra attention to answers to questions in the application form, which are a significant part of the hiring process
- Automattic is in its 20th year, the people behind WordPress, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more
- A distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe, speaking over a hundred languages
- 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
- 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
- Accommodations available during the application or interview process via a provided form
- Track application status at MyGreenhouse
- Data handled according to Job Applicant & Candidate Privacy Notice and Privacy Policy
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran
- Automattic participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law
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