Remote Principal WordPress Engineer - Remote

About XWP

Who You Are

• You are an enthusiastic WordPress advocate
• You are fueled by a balanced blend of humility and confidence
• You have a demonstrated appetite for continued learning, creativity, and problem-solving
• You value autonomy and have the self-management skills to operate dependably in a fully remote role
• You’re an excellent communicator, both written and verbal
• You strongly resonate with XWP’s values of giving, mastery, and teamwork

What You’ve Done

• You’ve led the technical direction of large scale and long term WordPress projects
• You’ve actively participated in giving feedback and guiding less experienced developers to follow best practices through code reviews
• You’ve built complex custom WordPress plugins from scratch
• You’ve contributed to or built internal tools to help your team’s productivity, velocity, and communication

• You’ve led a team of 5+ engineers
• You’ve invested heavily in developing, coaching, and mentoring engineers by working on growth plans, personal improvement plans, via 1:1s, and the like.
• You’ve actively participated in hiring engineers, including sourcing, interviewing, evaluating, and onboarding
• You have proven success building scalable engineering teams, including structure, culture, processes, and documentation

What You’ll Do at XWP

• Lead out some of our most complex and challenging large scale enterprise WordPress projects
• Write clear, readable, maintainable, production-ready code and provide in-depth code review to team members.
• Take responsibility for organizational practices and processes and their continuous improvement.
• Foster a culture of mentoring and support others in their growth as mentors.
• Promote big picture prioritization, clearly communicated expectation setting, and cost-vs-value economic thinking across the organization

• Deliver praise and constructive feedback across the organization and work to foster a culture of seeking out feedback and using it as a tool for growth.
• Demonstrate the cultural value of effective communication: Identifying the audience and listening to understand.
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing, where people are encouraged to share in a respectful manner.

• Understand and work at a strategic level, influencing decisions to achieve organizational alignment on major goals and ensure successful implementation
• Actively seek to create or redefine roadmaps across the organization with project & business counterparts.

What Success Looks Like

• Growing the percentage of projects using the tools and processes from our documented best practices
• XWPs tools and processes are helping our team, our clients, and the greater WordPress community
• Client projects delivered on time and on budget
• Act as an empowered expert and leader in one or more area specializations: Technical, Growth, Solutions, or Implementation
• Contribute to our community in a visible way, further establishing expertise and leadership
• Proposed deliverables and solutions are completed across the organization
• Engineers feel supported to deliver quality solutions and code efficiently
• You’ve invested in learning and developing your skills.
• You’re actively engaged with our community

Payscale & Benefits

• Trust and support from your colleagues (we look out for each other and work together towards our shared goals and vision)
• The rewards of a highly collaborative culture (we’re a team, not a working group)
• Remote work done right! High levels of flexibility, skip the commute, time to invest in family, caregiving, and interests outside of work
• The chance to play an important part in helping XWP achieve its full potential and make a meaningful difference for our clients, team members and the open web.
• An expected starting annual salary range of USD $110,000 to $130,000 or contractor rates of $55-$70/Hr
• Unleash+ allowance of $2,500 per year to enrich your life, and other benefits.

Intrigued?