Software Development Engineer II - Fullstack

About the Role:

• You’ll join the WordPress team, a group of dedicated engineers, creators, and support specialists passionate about building fast, reliable, and scalable digital experiences.
• Together, you help customers create high-performance websites on our managed hosting platform.
• You’ll solve complex challenges across frontend/backend architecture, performance, micro-frontends, and distributed backend systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own and contribute to architecture and development across products, driving technical excellence in both frontend and backend systems.
• Develop and optimize backend API services with test-driven development including advanced caching and messaging for reliability and scalability.
• Deliver high-quality frontend experiences using modern frameworks, with strong fundamentals in component-based architectures and state management.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and scaling robust backend systems and high-performance frontend applications.
• Strong backend engineering and distributed system design skills, with hands-on experience in API development, data modeling, and systems architecture using Node.js (NestJS preferred), TypeScript, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, able to drive complex initiatives, lead technical discussions, and mentor junior engineers.