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WP Engine

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

SaaS • B2B • Technology

WP Engine is a company that specializes in providing WordPress digital experiences and technology solutions. They emphasize a strong company culture based on core values of diversity and inclusivity, allowing employees to bring their authentic selves to work. With locations across the globe, including Austin, London, and Brisbane, WP Engine offers remote working opportunities and invests in employee growth and development. They pride themselves on being a great workplace as recognized by numerous awards and provide a range of benefits, such as stock options and wellness allowances. WP Engine focuses on innovation and customer satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Build, test, deploy, and maintain backend services and platform capabilities • Develop and integrate APIs using established service and architecture patterns • Work with relational data stores and contribute to reliable data access and service integration patterns • Contribute to event-driven and asynchronous workflows, including message-based processing and background jobs • Run and support services across cloud and platform environments, including managed cloud services, containers, virtual machines, and other runtime models • Use CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code workflows to deliver changes safely and repeatably • Use logs, metrics, and traces to understand application behavior and diagnose production issues • Participate in technical design discussions, ADRs, RFCs, and code reviews, asking questions and contributing practical implementation feedback • Own defined areas of work and collaborate with more experienced engineers on broader architectural or cross-team decisions • Use AI-assisted engineering tools to speed up development, improve testing, explore codebases, and investigate technical problems

🎯 Requirements

• Solid software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience building backend services or web platforms • Go is preferred for many modern platform services, but strong experience with another backend language is equally relevant if you can learn new technologies quickly • Building and integrating HTTP APIs, particularly REST-based services • Working with RPC or service-to-service communication patterns; experience with gRPC is a plus • Relational databases and SQL, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL • Writing readable, maintainable, and testable code • Unit and integration testing, debugging, and safe production changes • Version control and collaborative Git-based development workflows • Practical exposure to public cloud or modern platform environments • Experience with either GCP or AWS is valuable • Core cloud concepts around compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services • Operating applications in at least one public cloud environment, preferably GCP or AWS • Containers and Docker • Basic orchestration concepts; practical Kubernetes experience is useful but not required to be expert level • Infrastructure as Code concepts and working with existing Terraform modules or similar tooling • Experience with services such as Pub/Sub, IAM, Cloud SQL, GKE, EC2, S3, or equivalent cloud services is useful • Understanding the fundamentals of distributed systems and having practical exposure to at least some event-driven and message-based systems • Asynchronous processing and background workflows • Participating in production incident investigation and root-cause analysis

🏖️ Benefits

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company) • Health Benefits (LuxMed Premium Rehab + Dentistry III) • Pension Scheme with a match • Life Insurance, 100% premium paid by WP Engine • Free Multisport Card - Light and Classic • Short-Term Disability & Sick Leave: 100% salary coverage for the first 33 days • Employee Assistance Program • Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off) • 1 floating holiday • 4 Company Wellness Days • Home Office Stipend • On-going education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning and our Career Growth Portal