Software Engineer (WordPress Plugin – PHP/JS)

Are you a Software Engineer with experience in WordPress plugin development, who loves building new features, squashing bugs, and continuously improving quality? Do you love making websites run faster? 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, web performance, modular reusable code libraries, and quality to join our WP Rocket plugin development team! 🚀 Keep reading for more details! 📝 Become Our New Software Engineer ! 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 +4,900,000 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 15,000,000,000 images! 😲 You will join our remote, global Engineering team, which is spread across Canada, France, Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Nigeria, and Romania. As part of our collaborative and agile work environment, we hold a daily standup to ensure alignment across the team. Attendance at this standup and availability around this time are mandatory for all team members to stay updated and contribute effectively to ongoing projects. We value clear communication and encourage everyone to participate actively. To facilitate this international teamwork, you live or work in a time zone between UTC+4 to UTC-4. We are eager to find out which new country will be added to our distributed team map! 🌍 WP Media is part of group.One, a leading European provider of online presence, cloud hosting and digital marketing services. You will be joining our WP Rocket plugin team, in charge of developing and maintaining WP Media' s most successful product, WP Rocket! It is a WordPress plugin dedicated to performance optimization. In your job as a Software Engineer, your primary focus will be building new features, fixing bugs, and continuously improving the WP Rocket plugin. You will actively contribute to delivering the Product roadmap while ensuring the plugin meets our quality and performance standards, and best practices. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager leading the WP Rocket plugin team. What You Will Be Doing Here is a list describing the tasks involved in this position (do you happen to like making lists? So do we! :) Contribute to continuously improving WP Rocket through new features and bug fixes development. Scope, contribute to, and collaborate on technical solutions and specifications for each user story in our backlog. Collaborate with the cross-functional Dev team in each sprint to pull in ready-to-build user stories and get each built, tested, demoed, and ready to ship Review pull requests to ensure each meets our standards, achieve the desired feature epic, story, or fix outcome, and does not cause side-effects Seek opportunities to make our plugin products run faster, be easier to maintain, and be more reliable, robust, and scalable Collaboratively contribute to our code libraries, code reviews, process improvements, and technical decisions. Previous experience with PHP and JavaScript are required for this position. During this journey, you will get cross-training and growth opportunities by working with your fellow Dev teammates on internal projects. You will join a team and a company with a strong tech culture where continuous improvements, collaboration with peers and autonomy are key values. Our engineering teams frequently meet to share their learnings and feedback, and maintain public documentation of our best practices (for instance, check out our new engineering handbook!). We also regularly dedicate time to codebase maintenance, open-source contribution and best-practice refinements: we believe having a great developer experience requires effort but leads to better products in the long run

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 +4,900,000 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 15,000,000,000 images! 😲 WP Media is part of group.One, a leading European provider of online presence, cloud hosting and digital marketing services.