Technical Architect - Platform

January 16

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WP Engine

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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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Shape our technical direction by working closely with Product, Engineering, and both internal and external partners to explore new ideas and technologies. • Design, validate, and communicate macro-architectures, APIs, and scalable systems for engineering teams to reference and develop toward. • Research and evaluate technologies; develop recommendations for adoption or non-adoption of those technologies. • Encourage and drive the implementation of best engineering practices, while acting as a strong technical mentor, coach, and advocate for other members of your team.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in architecting and building cloud agnostic, high performance and scalable platforms with deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure such as Google, AWS and Azure. • Experience with WordPress, developing plugins, and integrating 3rd party applications • Experience leading teams in crafting and writing high quality, distributed, maintainable, deployable, testable, and usable software applications (in any language) using Agile methodologies. • History of problem solving and taking ownership of technical solutions that must scale out to meet high demand • Understanding of prioritization and when and how to make optimal tradeoffs in areas such as correctness, robustness, reliability, and performance to achieve the intended impact across all stages of the product development lifecycle. • Experience defining and championing best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations • Prior experience architecting and building modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines. • Outstanding capacity to connect with others through strong written and verbal communication skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company) • Great Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) • Paid Family Leave • Employee Assistance Program • Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off) • One-time work from home allowance • 4 Company Wellness Days a year • Wellness allowance • Free subscription to Calm • On-going education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning, and our Career Growth Portal