Principal WordPress Engineer

• Posted : one year ago

Headquarters: Melbourne, Australia
URL: https://xwp.co/

About XWP

Who You Are

• You are an enthusiastic WordPress advocate
  
• You are fueled by a balanced blend of humility and confidence
  
• You have a demonstrated appetite for continued learning, creativity, and problem-solving
  
• You value autonomy and have the self-management skills to operate dependably in a fully remote role
  
• You’re an excellent communicator, both written and verbal
  
• You strongly resonate with XWP’s values of giving, mastery, and teamwork
  
  

What You’ve Done

• You’ve led the technical direction of large scale and long term WordPress projects
  
• You’ve actively participated in giving feedback and guiding less experienced developers to follow best practices through code reviews
  
• You’ve built complex custom WordPress plugins from scratch
  
• You’ve contributed to or built internal tools to help your team’s productivity, velocity, and communication
  
  

• You’ve led a team of 5+ engineers
  
• You’ve invested heavily in developing, coaching, and mentoring engineers by working on growth plans, personal improvement plans, via 1:1s, and the like.
  
• You’ve actively participated in hiring engineers, including sourcing, interviewing, evaluating, and onboarding
  
• You have proven success building scalable engineering teams, including structure, culture, processes, and documentation
  
  

What You’ll Do at XW

• Lead out some of our most complex and challenging large scale enterprise WordPress projects
  
• Write clear, readable, maintainable, production-ready code and provide in-depth code review to team members.
  
• Take responsibility for organizational practices and processes and their continuous improvement.
  
• Foster a culture of mentoring and support others in their growth as mentors.
  
• Promote big picture prioritization, clearly communicated expectation setting, and cost-vs-value economic thinking across the organization
  
  

• Deliver praise and constructive feedback across the organization and work to foster a culture of seeking out feedback and using it as a tool for growth.
  
• Demonstrate the cultural value of effective communication: Identifying the audience and listening to understand.
  
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing, where people are encouraged to share in a respectful manner.

• Understand and work at a strategic level, influencing decisions to achieve organizational alignment on major goals and ensure successful implementation
  
• Actively seek to create or redefine roadmaps across the organization with project & business counterparts.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• Growing the percentage of projects using the tools and processes from our documented best practices
  
• XWPs tools and processes are helping our team, our clients, and the greater WordPress communit
  
• Client projects delivered on time and on budget
  
• Act as an empowered expert and leader in one or more area specializations: Technical, Growth, Solutions, or Implementation
  
• Contribute to our community in a visible way, further establishing expertise and leadership
  
• Proposed deliverables and solutions are completed across the organization
  
• Engineers feel supported to deliver quality solutions and code efficiently
  
• You’ve invested in learning and developing your skills.
  
• You’re actively engaged with our community
  
  

Payscale & Benefits

• Trust and support from your colleagues (we look out for each other and work together towards our shared goals and vision)
  
• The rewards of a highly collaborative culture (we’re a team, not a working group)
  
• Remote work done right! High levels of flexibility, skip the commute, time to invest in family, caregiving, and interests outside of work
  
• The chance to play an important part in helping XWP achieve its full potential and make a meaningful difference for our clients, team members and the open web.
  
• An expected starting annual salary range of USD $110,000 to $130,000 or contractor rates of $55-$70/Hr
  
• Unleash+ allowance of $2,500 per year to enrich your life, and other benefits.

Intrigued?

Skills

• wordpress