Exceptional Generalist

 Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, Tumblr, and WooCommerce, is looking for exceptional generalist engineers. 


 



 If you love the open web, open source, radical problem ownership, and simple solutions, Automattic is probably the place for you.


 



 About you:


 
You’re endlessly curious about how things work – infrastructure, language and libraries, product and business.
 
Understanding the problem we're solving and how it helps the user is your first priority.
 
Simple solutions are your favorite, even if they’re boring. For example, using PHP as the core of our backend makes sense to you.
 
You love debugging a stubborn issue. Friends and colleagues call you when they hit a wall.
 
You describe your growth as an engineer in terms of what you've learned instead of what positions you've held.
 
You work across the stack, whether you've been tasked with it or not. A new corner of the (even legacy) codebase is a fun challenge, not something to avoid.


 About us:


 
No formal engineering titles or levels.
 
Moving between teams and projects is a straightforward, not a bureaucratic or political process.
 
We offer autonomy, flexibility, and many opportunities to have an impact on the users, the business, and the organization.
 
Most of our products operate at a significant scale, both in terms of users, impact, and infrastructure.
 
We believe open-source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation.
 
We value diversity and know that different perspectives will lead to innovative and creative thinking.