Senior Backend Software Engineer (PHP/Python) - Contractor

Become Our New Backend Software Engineer !

What you will be doing 

You will be joining our WP Rocket Addons team, in charge of developing and maintaining most of WP Media’s services, including server-side features such as Remove Unsued CSS and the Imagify optimization service, as well as our commercial platforms including internal CRM and e-commerce websites, and back-office tools that empower all our teams to provide the best experience to our users.

What You Should Know About Our Company:  WP Media

Founded in 2014 in the beautiful Lyon, France, WP Media is an equal opportunity employer with a distributed team of +45 teammates living around the world. 
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 +5,000,000 websites 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 19,000,000,000 images! 😲

You will join our remote, global Engineering team, which is spread across Canada, France, Egypt, Greece, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Romania. To facilitate this international teamwork, you live or work in a time zone between UTC+3 to UTC-5. We have flexible working hours & a remote work culture. As part of our collaborative and agile framework, we only require that you are available around the time of the team’s daily standup meeting, currently at 2PM CET. We value clear communication and encourage everyone to participate actively. We are eager to find out which new country will be added to our distributed team map! 🌍

WP Media is part of group.One, a leading European provider of online presence, cloud hosting and digital marketing services.

group.one is a leading European provider of online presence, cloud hosting, and digital marketing services. Over 2 million customers trust us with their online success. Our global team consists of 1 500+ employees operating from nearly 20 locations across 15 countries, with our headquarters in Sweden. Thanks to the support of our partners Cinven and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, we are steadily expanding the group's service portfolio and geographical footprint.

Do We Share the Same Values?

Mutual respect, collaboration, and inclusivity.

These are the fundamental values that support our life as a team.

Healthy balance between work and private life.

We encourage our employees to enjoy their family and hobbies with flexible working hours and minimum vacation policy. There are no time cards to stamp, only customers to make happy and friendly teammates to work with! We care about the work you do, not about the hours you sit at your desk.

We like to see each other in person whenever possible.

Every year, we organize a trip with the whole team and spend a week of coworking and fun activities together.

To give you an idea, so far we have traveled to Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Greece and Serbia:

We are committed to an inclusive and safe environment, free from discrimination and harassment.

We welcome talent in all its diversity. Your gender, background, age, beliefs, or personal story do not define your opportunities here—what matters to us is mutual respect, personal appreciation, and creating a workplace where motivation and collaboration thrive. We believe in supporting your personal and professional growth, recognising you as both an individual and a valued team member.

We want to continue to grow with you and why we look forward to getting to know you.

Now that we've told you so much about us, it's your turn.

Let us know why you would like to become our Senior Backend Software Engineer and why you think you are the person we are looking for.

We can’t wait to receive your application! 🌟