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Experienced Software Engineer

Automattic Careers
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
3 years

Job description

Engineering role at Automattic for experienced software engineers to help build and improve Automattic's product ecosystem, including WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Gutenberg, and Tumblr.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Pay
USD 70,000 – 170,000 / year

What you'll do

  • Help Automattic's product ecosystem and join the mission to make the web a better place
  • Work on products such as WooCommerce, Gutenberg, and Tumblr
  • Ship often, deploying many times daily with peer code review and continuous integration
  • Collaborate across many communication channels
  • Open-source work except passwords and secret keys

What we're looking for

  • Care and often obsess over the quality and 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
  • Production experience with several programming languages, frameworks, and paradigms
  • Comfortable with the idea of becoming an expert in PHP and JavaScript, even if not already an expert
  • Experience working at scale, on the backend and performance side or via complexity of interacting with a multi-million diverse userbase
  • Open and able to travel 3-4 weeks per year to meet up with teammates in person

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements allowing team members to work when they feel best
  • Open-source work
  • Learning and development support, covering expenses, easy internal mobility, coaching
  • Open vacation policy
  • Competitive base salary with financial clarity without complex variable components

How to get hired

  1. 1Application form questions are a significant part of the hiring process and are reviewed like any other step
  2. 2Process steps outlined in How We Hire

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About Automattic

The people behind WordPress.com, 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 different 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.

Key facts

  • more than 1500 Automatticians
  • Technology / Open Source Software
  • Now in our 20th year
  • Distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every corner of the globe
  • Speaking over a hundred different languages
  • Global workforce in over 70 countries
  • Believes in Open Source; vast majority of work available under the GPL
  • Most Loved Company
  • Equal Opportunity employer
  • Disability Confident Committed

What they value

  • Open Source
  • Kind to each other and our users
  • Positive, supportive, and inclusive culture
  • Flexible work arrangements