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Founded in 2014 in the beautiful Lyon, France, WP Media is an equal opportunity employer with a distributed team of +45 teammates living around the world.
WP Media is the French company behind successful WordPress plugins like WP Rocket and Imagify. WP Rocket is the premium caching plugin for WordPress used by +5,000,000 websites worldwide. Our plugin makes sites go at the speed of light in just a few clicks. Imagify is our free image optimization service, including a free WordPress plugin: we have already optimized more than 19,000,000,000 images!
You will join our remote, global Engineering team, which is spread across Canada, France, Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Romania. To facilitate this international teamwork, you live or work in a time zone between UTC+3 to UTC-5. We have flexible working hours & a remote work culture. As part of our collaborative and agile framework, we only require that you are available around the time of the team’s daily standup meeting, currently at 2PM CET. We value clear communication and encourage everyone to participate actively. We are eager to find out which new country will be added to our distributed team map!
Are you a Backend Software Engineer with experience in PHP and Python, who loves building outstanding user experiences, implementing new features and thrives in a strong engineering culture? squashing bugs, and continuously improving quality? Does making complexity simple excite you? Do you have a knack for teamwork with people from different backgrounds and skills?
If you answered yes to these questions, we are sure this position will sound super exciting to you.
We are looking for a friendly person in love with PHP and Python, web performance, and engineering excellence to join our WP Rocket Addons team!
Requirements
Personal Traits
The WP Media team is diverse and composed of people from all over the world. Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are some of our core values (more on this below). Every day of work is an exciting opportunity to get in touch with fantastic people who will enrich your cultural and professional background.
You are a skilled, passionate, and humble software engineer who is friendly, collaborative, and supportive. Solving problems and building solutions that help people are the values that make your work special and rewarding.
At WP Media, one of our values is "user first": we do what is best for them and we work to offer them an exceptional experience with our products. You consider how the code we build impacts them. You value personal growth and constructive feedback. People feel good around you because you love sharing what you know while continuously improving yourself, remaining thoughtful and flexible in your approach.
Empathetic and collaborative communication is key: you are comfortable writing, speaking, and listening in English with technical and non-technical teammates.
Work Experience
You will bring proven experience in building, improving, and maintaining PHP and Python solutions. You develop using modern techniques (for example, OOP, unit & integration testing, observability, AI assistance). You have experience in developing but also releasing and maintaining services used by tens of thousands of users.
Framing issues and identifying solutions makes you thrive. You are not satisfied with simply expediting tickets and issues, but you want to own the codebase you work on and actively take part in its evolution. You want to drive continuous improvement by enhancing embedded tests, best practices and keeping the stack up to date.
You think code should comply with the team's standards as well as best practices. You value automated code validation to do pre-code reviews while reducing the load of manual code review process. You have experience with automated testing, i.e. unit, integration, and maybe even end-to-end acceptance testing. You value how granular tests prove that your code works as expected even in unexpected conditions.
Quality and continuous improvement drive you. You know that quality means the code not only works but works as expected in many different environments and conditions. You insist on code being reliable, complete, robust, and stable. You are a collaborator, working with your teammates to continuously improve our practices, processes, code, tools, and pipelines.
Do you bring even more to the table?
Do you want to know a few other things we appreciate about our candidates? Don’t worry if you don’t have experience in any of these areas, we can teach you, and learn together along the way!
Most of the software you will work on is implemented using Django (Python) or WordPress (PHP). Some services are written in Node.js. Are you familiar with those frameworks/runtime environments? Great, you’ll be up to speed quickly! Otherwise, we will teach you.
Deploying and running products, services and websites is as important as developing them. While we have a team dedicated to those activities, you will assist them as the expert of the services you developed. You might be familiar with Kubernetes, Chef, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, and Kibana? If you don’t, don’t worry: We will teach you!
Do you want to know three other things we appreciate about our candidates?
A startup mentality
You are a doer, you are adaptable, and you like to evolve in a fast-paced environment.
Previous remote job experience.
Slack will be your virtual office, where all the life of the company takes place.
If you are excited about providing technical assistance to our customers, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
If you have the necessary qualifications and want to join a successful team, apply for the job.:
