WordPress Playground needs a developer to help us shape the future of WordPress. We’re looking for a senior person, interested equally in the technology, the people using the technology, and the big picture.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Build fundamental, low-level PHP tools intended for inclusion in WordPress Core (e.g. WP<->WP synchronization, streaming parsers, git clients).
- Read specifications, RFCs, web standards proposals (e.g. WHATWG HTML spec, git protocol, JSPI proposal).
- Publish rough, half-baked prototypes to inspire the community and draw out the early reactions (e.g. a WordPress IDE, recording WordPress (test runs) with Playwright, a Blueprints builder).
- Coordinate with the community and other Automattic teams.
Responsibilities:
- Develop code for WordPress Playground, both in TypeScript and PHP, submit well described Github issues and pull requests, and engage in discussion and code reviews.
- Communicate in a friendly and professional way with community members and help them take submissions over the finish line.
- Make use of existing documentation resources and examples, and improve them where you see fit or make improvements to the APIs to help the community to achieve tasks faster.
Requirements:
We’d like you to have built something in one or two areas listed below which required a deep dive into those areas. Three is more than enough.
- Web Assembly,
- Offline apps,
- Live collaboration,
- Mobile apps,
- Stream-processing data,
- Parsers,
- Browser extensions,
- Web browser internals (e.g. chromium codebase),
- PHP internals (the C codebase),
- Git internals (the .git store, the protocol),
- Helping define new web standards (e.g. contributing to WASM standards discussions, participating in PHP mailing lists, proposing RFCs for WordPress – even if there’s no RFC process in place).
Salary range: $70,000-$170,000 USD - Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency.
This isn’t your typical work-from-home job—we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. Read more about our compensation philosophy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And check out these links to learn more about How We Hire and What We Expect from Ourselves.
