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. 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: $70000-$170000 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 .