Senior Backend Software Engineer

Role Description

Are you a Senior Backend Software Engineer with experience in PHP and Python, who loves building outstanding user experiences, implementing new features and thrives in a strong engineering culture? Are you looking for projects to lead and to tackle with a get-it-done mindset? Does making complexity simple excite you? Do you have a knack for teamwork with people from different backgrounds and skills?

If you answered yes to these questions, we are sure this position will sound super exciting to you. We are looking for a friendly person in love with PHP and Python, web performance, and engineering excellence to join our WP Rocket Addons team!

In your job as a Senior Backend Software Engineer, your primary focus will be on:

• Designing, architecting, and building the software to deliver the product & marketing vision to our users.
• Collaborating with your team of experienced software engineers to design, implement, test, deliver and maintain services that meet our quality and performance standards.
• Interacting closely with the Product, Marketing, and Support teams to identify the best approaches to build a delightful user experience.
• Reporting to the Engineering Manager leading the WP Rocket addons team.

Here is a list describing the tasks involved in this position:

• Contribute to continuously improving our services (backend, e-commerce, backoffice) to deliver the best user experience through our products.
• Scope, lead, and collaborate on technical solutions and specifications for user stories and EPICs in our backlog.
• Collaborate with your cross-functional Product & Engineering team in each sprint to pull in ready-to-build user stories and get each built, tested, and released.
• Review and test pull requests and collaborate with your peers to ensure our code meets standards, achieves the desired outcome, and does not cause side-effects.
• Seek opportunities to improve the quality of our services, make products run faster, be easier to maintain, and be more reliable, secure, robust, and scalable.
• Collaboratively contribute to our internal agentic AI setup, code libraries, process improvements, and functional and technical decisions.

Qualifications

• Proficient knowledge of English.
• Solid PHP & Python expertise.
• Experience with automated code validation & testing.
• Love quality, AI-driven development and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Being Yourself: Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are core values.
• Passion and humbleness: A skilled, passionate, and humble software engineer.
• Consider how your work impacts others: Focus on user experience and personal growth.
• Work Experience: Proven experience in building, improving, and maintaining PHP and Python solutions.
• You own your developments: Take ownership of projects and codebases.
• Do you bring even more to the table? Expertise in Django, WordPress and/or Node.js is appreciated.
• Not afraid of DevOps activities: Familiarity with deployment and running products.
• Previous remote job experience: Comfortable working in a remote environment.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a remote work culture.
• Annual team trips for coworking and fun activities.
• Commitment to an inclusive and safe environment, free from discrimination and harassment.
• Support for personal and professional growth.