What's cool about this job.

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 technology is there to help them win — whatever that means for them.

At WP Engine, engineers help shape our future teams and technology vision in order to build meaningful products that improve the lives of our customers.

Our culture is renowned; we believe it is important to hire the best and ensure that we provide an environment where the best get better. If you are great at solving problems, a hard worker with excellent interpersonal skills, and enjoy working across different time zones and cultures, you may be the engineer that we are looking for!

The day to day.

• Work closely with Product Management, Engineering Management, and business partners to incrementally deliver positive customer inspired outcomes through technology
• Work as part of an agile development team to delivering impactful software rapidly and iteratively
• Write, test, and maintain software applications that are resilient, robust, and perform at scale
• Constantly look for opportunities to improve operational effectiveness through automation and optimization of code
• Encourage and drive the implementation of best engineering practices
• Act as strong technical leader, mentor, and advocate for other members of your team

• 5+ years of Software engineering experience using Agile methodologies
• History of problem solving and taking ownership of features, with a team, on short and long-running projects
• Understanding of prioritization and when and how to make optimal tradeoffs in areas such as correctness, robustness, reliability, and performance to achieve the intended impact across all stages of the product development lifecycle
• Outstanding capacity to connect with others through strong written and verbal communication skills

Demonstrated ability in:

• A web development framework - e.g. Django, Ruby on Rails, Flask
• Data modelling, designing REST API’s, and micro services development
• Modern Web UI frameworks - e.g. React, Vue
• Git/Github version control, and CI/CD for automated testing and deployment.
• Cloud technologies and services - e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes

Preferred Skills:

• Practical knowledge of basic SRE principles
• Experience with the WordPress, or other significant open source project, ecosystem and community
• Integration with 3rd party applications or ERP systems or familiarity with enterprise application integration patterns