About the role
<p>WordPress doesn’t try to keep its users inside walled gardens, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving away from the open web. Instead, WordPress gives them the freedom to build a business website, an online store, or a personal blog – the way they like it. Big sites or small, using the community-run <a href="https://wordpress.org/">open source project</a> or Automattic’s <a href="https://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a>, vanilla or customized with hundreds of plugins, WordPress users always get to own and control their data, their expression, and their freedom.</p> <p>We’re always looking for talented and experienced engineers worldwide, excited to help Automattic’s product ecosystem, and join our mission to make the web a better place.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What have we worked on recently?</strong></p> <ul> <li>AI is at the heart of many <a href="https://wordpress.com/ai-website-builder/">new product developments</a> and powers a lot of our day-to-day development workflows.</li> <li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/">WooCommerce</a> is the most popular and most flexible e-commerce platform on the web. We're working tirelessly on giving you all the control, while keeping the platform fast and stable.</li> <li><a href="https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/">Gutenberg</a> is a new block-level editor for WordPress with clean abstractions for users, too, not just developers.</li> <li><a href="https://www.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a> is a microblogging social network where users create, share, and follow what they love.</li> <li>To view more of our recent work, check out our longer product list on <a href="https://automattic.com/">Automattic.com</a>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>How do we work?</strong></p> <ul> <li>We’re <a href="https://automattic.com/creed/help-a-colleague/">kind to each other</a> and our users – we build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on building useful products for our customers.</li> <li>We work as a global and distributed workforce resulting in a unique way of working built around <a href="https://automattic.com/creed">our creed</a>.&nbsp;</li> <li>We offer flexible work arrangements allowing our team members to work when they feel best.</li> <li>We open-source! We’re cool with <a href="https://github.com/Automattic">open-sourcing</a> everything except passwords, or secret keys.</li> <li>We ship often, <a href="https://automattic.com/about/">deploying many</a> times daily with the help of peer code review, continuous integration, and our glo