Mobile API Software Engineer

At Automattic, we believe in making the web a better place. Our Apps division designs, builds, and supports our native apps for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Simplenote. As our team and user base grow, we are looking for a Senior API Software Engineer to develop new mobile-optimized APIs and improve our existing ones.

As a Mobile API Software Engineer in our Apps division, you will:

• Join a diverse team of Designers, and Software, Quality, and Happiness Engineers.
• Develop new API endpoints and improve existing ones to optimize them for our Mobile apps.
• Work at the crossroads of native mobile development, cross-platform development, and mobile infrastructure.
• Add additional test coverage to existing endpoints to improve reliability and resilience, possibly refactoring code while doing so to improve testability.

This position might be a good fit if you:

• Are passionate about and experienced in backend software development; in particular, advanced PHP knowledge is a plus or interest in building your skills in this area.
• Have experience optimizing APIs for mobile clients in a large scale environment.
• Are experienced and interested in systems architecture.
• Are highly collaborative and love participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture, and/or design.
• Are knowledgeable about design patterns and testability; having experience with testing frameworks, performance and PHPUnit is very welcome.

Extra Credit:

• WordPress programming experience, in particular WordPress REST API.
• Experience with modern JavaScript.
• Experience collecting and using data to help inform product decisions.
• Good user experience instincts and product design opinions.
• Open source contributions.
• Contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field.

Speaking of interests and skills, here are some areas in which you can grow and have further impact in the future at the company:

• Leadership – we offer a variety of leadership options to those who have interest, including becoming a team lead and managing releases.
• Learning and development – we have a generous personal development budget and encourage you to grow your skills through courses, books and conferences.
• Architecture – we encourage developers to develop expertise in the systems they work with, guide their evolution and mentor other developers working on them.
• Engineering effectiveness – we believe in helping other developers become more effective through tools, practices, cross-team collaborations, and process improvements.

How do we work?

• We’re kind to each other and our users – we strive to build a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture of cohesive teams focused on delivering value to our customers.
• We work as a global and distributed workforce resulting in a unique way of working built around our creed.
• We offer flexible work arrangements allowing our team members to work when they feel best.
• We open-source! We’re cool with open-sourcing everything except passwords, or secret keys.
• We ship often, deploying many times daily with the help of peer code review, continuous integration, and our global workforce in over 70 countries.
• We welcome collaboration, and you can be involved in any discussion across our many communication channels.

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