Python + Django Software Engineer (Remote)
WP Media, France
Job Description
Are you an experienced Python and Django software engineer? Do you love building SaaS APIs and apps? Does building new features, squashing bugs, and continuously improving quality challenge you? Does legacy code make you want to refactor it to current best practices and standards? Does performance and making the web better, faster, and lighter 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 Python, Django, web performance, microservices, reusable code libraries, and quality to join our Product Software Engineering team.
Keep reading for more details!
In your job as a Software Engineer, your primary focus will be building new features, fixing bugs, optimization, and continuously improving our SaaS products.
WP Media is the French company behind successful WordPress plugins like WP Rocket and Imagify. WP Rocket is the premium caching plugin for WordPress used by +1,700,000 websites and +190,000 customers worldwide. Our plugin makes sites go at the speed of light in just a few clicks. Imagify is our free image optimization service, including a free WordPress plugin: we have already optimized more than 3,000,000,000 images!
You will join our Product Software Engineering Team. To facilitate this international teamwork, we require you to work in within one of these time zones UTC+2 to UTC-7. We are so curious to know which new country will be added to our distributed team map!
What You Will Be Doing:
Here is a list describing the tasks involved in this position (do you happen to like making lists? So do we!):
- Contribute to building, testing, and maintaining our SaaS products, APIs, and apps including new features, optimizations, bug fixes, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Scope, contribute to, and collaborate on technical solutions and specifications for each user story in our backlog.
- Join our the cross-functional Scrum Team in each sprint to pull in ready-to-build user stories and get each built, tested, demoed, and ready to ship
- Review pull requests to ensure each meets our standards, achieves the desired feature epic, story, or fix outcome, and does not cause side-effects
- Seek opportunities to make our products run faster, be easier to maintain, and be more reliable, robust, and scalable
- Collaboratively contribute to our code libraries, code reviews, process improvements, and technical decisions.
During this journey, you will get cross-training and growth opportunities by working with your teammates on internal projects.
- Work comfortably within UTC+2 to UTC-7 time zone range, prefer European time zones.
- Be a strong written and spoken English communicator. Why? Though we are a global company, English is our company's working language. We require strong communication to ensure everyone can understand one another and collaborate well together.
- Strong agile SaaS product engineering experience specializing in Python and Django.
Being Yourself.
The WP Media team is diverse and composed of people from all over the world. Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are some of our core values (more on this below). Every day of work is an exciting opportunity to get in touch with fantastic people who will enrich your cultural and professional background.
Proficient knowledge of English.
Empathetic and collaborative communication is key: you are comfortable writing, speaking, and listening in English with technical and non-technical teammates.
Passion and humbleness.
You are a skilled, passionate, and humble engineer who is friendly, collaborative, and supportive. Solving problems and building solutions that help people are the values that make your work special and rewarding.
Considering how your work impacts others.
Your code is a pleasure to use, read, and understand. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than when you found them. You value personal growth and constructive feedback. People feel good around you because you love sharing what you know while continuously improving yourself, remaining thoughtful and flexible in your approach.
Proven Django API expertise.
You are a skilled Django API engineer. You’ve built, maintained, scaled, and continuously improved APIs. You follow agile processe