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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. Learn more at wpengine.com.

Since launching in 2010, WP Engine has become the world’s leading WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), now with over 160,000 customers in 150 countries. We’re proud of the technology and service we offer our customers that move their businesses forward faster. At WP Engine, we strive to do the best work of our careers, and feel empowered to do what is right for our customers. We love investing in employee success and uncovering opportunities for you, the best, to get better. 99 percent of employees believe you’re made to feel welcome at WP Engine. Be you. Be here.
 

What's cool about this job?

The evolution of our cloud based platform is required for our scale, and we are searching for an experienced software engineer to join our rapidly growing engineering team. If you are an engineer experienced with backend applications, service oriented architectures, mentoring engineers and are motivated by scale, you may be the engineer we are looking for.
 

The day to day.

• Innovate along with a team of passionate engineers on WP Engine's next generation ideas

• Write, test, integrate, debug, and solve backend software applications that are resilient, robust, secure, maintainable, and perform at scale

• Continuously iterate on WP Engine’s secure, cloud based, performant software platform that supports millions of end users

• Build and maintain complex, backend workflows supporting and related to website lifecycle management

• Improve code quality and test coverage, build deployment pipelines to safely and rapidly push new code to production

• Invest in and fine-tune observability services to aid engineering and support efforts and create better feedback loops

• Constantly look for opportunities to automate and optimize

• Actively engage in and further an ecosystem of learning and mentorship

• Lead technical solutions and system design across WP Engine

• Work closely with Product Management to ensure that your frequent, incremental code changes add new value to our customers

Your skills and expertise.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or a related field) OR equivalent experience

• 5+ years experience in a software development role, delivering high quality software

• Ability to work with and switch between multiple programming languages primarily PHP, Python and Golang

• Experience with cloud and containerized technologies and services - GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience with developing and maintaining 

  • APIs and microservices

  • Database schemas and optimizing queries

  • Observability services

• History of technical leadership, problem solving and taking ownership of features

• Proactive and has an inquisitive personality, a continuous learning approach, and an eagerness to tackle big problems even with uncertain requirements.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with WordPress desirable

The Perks and Benefits.

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)

• Great Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance)

• Fertility Benefits (IVF/Fertility drug coverage)

• HSA Company contribution $500 for employee / $1000 for family

• 401(k) with a 4% match

• Disability Insurance