Playground Wrangler

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💎 Seniority level: Senior, 3 or more areas of expertise

📍 Location: Worldwide

💸 Salary: 70000.0 - 170000.0 USD per year

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Automattic Careers

🗣️ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 3 or more areas of expertise

🪄 Skills: PHPGitTypeScriptREST APIWordPress

Requirements:

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)

Responsibilities:

Build fundamental, low-level PHP tools intended for inclusion in WordPress Core (e.g. WP<->WP synchronization, streaming parsers, git clients).
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.