Playground Wrangler

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. WPWP 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.