Full Stack Engineer - (Remote - US)

Description

Mediavine is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to join Mediavine's existing Owned & Operated team. This person will contribute to maintaining existing Mediavine-owned websites and adding new landing pages as directed by the company. Applicants must be based in the United States.

About Mediavine

Mediavine is a fast-growing advertising management company representing over 7,500 websites in the food, lifestyle, DIY, and entertainment space. Founded by content creators, for content creators, Mediavine is a Top 20 Comscore property, exclusively reaching over 125 million monthly unique visitors. With best-in-class technology and a commitment to traffic quality and brand safety, we ensure optimal performance for our creators.

Mission & Culture

We help content creators build sustainable businesses. From educational tools and cutting-edge plugins to ad technology that maximizes earnings without slowing down your site, our motivation is to ensure your brand and business grow in every respect.

We are striving to build an inclusive and diverse team of highly talented individuals that reflects the industries we serve and the world we live in. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels welcomed. We are looking for individuals that will challenge us to continuously evolve and make Mediavine the employer of choice for people of all backgrounds. We strongly encourage minorities and individuals from underrepresented groups in technology to apply for this position.

Diversity and inclusion aren't platitudes to us; we take them seriously. Read through our blog posts to learn more about our values and to discover if Mediavine is the place for you!

About the O&O Team

The Owned and Operated (O&O) team at Mediavine is responsible for providing both a reliable, live testing ground for Mediavine’s suite of products (for us to truly create the best products for our publishers, we need to use them and understand them) as well as an ongoing, growing source of revenue for the company. This team works closely with our Product, Support and Marketing teams to build a wide array of custom, in-house solutions.

About You

As a Full Stack Engineer here at Mediavine, you will work with a talented team where you have weekly team time (we play games, have Oculus Quests, and do fun group activities), and you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You have a low ego, and make the workplace more fun for everyone.

Whether you have product or agency experience, the person in this role will be expected to have spent at least 3 years building modern web applications in PHP, HTML, and CSS. You are excellent at understanding issues, identifying solutions, solving problems, and explaining what you’ve learned. The person in this role will be expected to be proactive with suggestions and people know they can count on you. You should be able to pick up new systems, frameworks, and processes quickly.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Maintaining our existing suite of Mediavine company-owned websites
• Supporting existing Mediavine products that are not owned by a specific team
• Building landing pages as directed by the company
• Providing code reviews for teammates
• Proactively communicate challenges, considerations, and priorities with team members
• Fixing bugs that have been prioritized by the QA team and Product Manager
• Assisting our dedicated Support Engineers in identifying the causes of select customer issues related to assigned products
• As business needs change, be flexible in learning and applying your skills and experience on other product teams

Requirements

Location:

• Applicants must be based in the United States

You Have:

• 4+ years of professional coding experience across a broad range of projects
• 3+ years of experience developing with PHP and/or WordPress
• Strong understanding of modern PHP design patterns
• Comfort with CSS (we use Sass) and JavaScript
• Experience building web applications and/or plugins
• Basic knowledge of React
• Version control experience (we use git)
• A passion for code quality
• Experience working on a distributed/remote team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to haves:

• Experience with WordPress Gutenberg block development
• Developing plugins or themes for WordPress (or another plugin-based PHP framework)
• Managing PHP version compatibility
• Writing tests with PHPUnit
• Supporting long-lived PHP projects

Benefits

• Remote work environment
• Travel opportunities (remember those?!)
• Comprehensive benefits including 401k, Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Learning allowance
• Generous Vacation/Time off policies
• Additional side benefits such as home-office upgrades, tuition reimbursement, paid gym memberships and wellness retreats, upgraded flights, cool swag and more
• Company match charitable donations

Mediavine is an Equal Opportunity Employer