Technical Architect (Platform)

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WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine’s innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. Learn more at wpengine.com.

What's cool about this job:

At WP Engine, architects help shape our technology vision, influence decisions, inspire engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally in order to build impactful products that improve the lives of our customers.

Our culture is renowned; we believe it is important to hire the best and ensure that we provide an environment where the best get better. If you are great with technology evaluations, technology transformations, service oriented architectures, data analytics, and are motivated by the challenge of shaping our Platform vision, you may be the architect we are looking for!

The day to day:

• 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. 

Your expertise and passion:
 

Minimum qualifications: 

• 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 You are willing to solve hard problems, work through ambiguity, and deliver incremental solutions.

• 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. 

Demonstrated ability in:

• Data modeling, crafting REST APIs, GraphQL, and microservices development

• Cloud technologies and services - e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloudflare

• Web development and UI frameworks - e.g. Angular, React, Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails,

• Git/Github version control, and CI/CD for automated testing and deployment

• Asynchronous messaging & streaming technologies - e.g. Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, SQS

The perks and benefits.

• Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)

• Great Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance)

• Fertility Benefits (IVF/Fertility drug coverage)

• HSA Company contribution $500 for employee / $1000 for family

• 401(k) with a 4% match

• Disability Insurance

• Paid Family and Caregiver’s Leave

• Employee Assistance Program

• Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)

• One-time $500 payment to set up your home office

• 4 Company Wellness Days a year

• 1 floating holiday

• $100 monthly wellness allowance to spend on what you want

• Access to free on-demand fitness classes

• Free subscription to Calm

• Pet Insurance

• On-going education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning, and our Career Growth Portal

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$180,000.00 - $270,000.00

We believe that compensation should be reflective of the impact you have within the organization relative to the market value of your role. The estimated base salary range for this position is as listed above. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Our salary ranges are determined by job role and responsibilities and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for salaries for the position nationwide. The actual base pay will vary based on various factors including job-related skills and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. Your talent acquisition partner can share more about the total rewards package at WP Engine including any additional total rewards components such as equity, variable pay plans (if applicable), and benefits during the hiring process.