• Define the long term strategy for the DevEx team, ensuring it remains a value add partner to the broader Engineering organization. • Direct the creation of standardized IDE configurations, plugins, and bootstrapping processes to ensure every developer has a frictionless experience. • Identify high leverage opportunities to improve developer productivity and measure success through metrics like deployment frequency and lead time for changes. • Lead the effort to audit and consolidate the existing landscape of AI tools, overseeing selection, budget, and implementation. • Establish engineering standards and governance models that maintain consistency across all product teams. • Oversee the design of YAML workflows and pipelines that developers interact with daily. • Manage the transition from legacy systems to modern build tools like Turborepo to reduce build and test latencies.

• Create and maintain the Golden Path for developers, including recommended plugins, configurations, and internal tooling to reduce cognitive load. • Own the bootstrapping process for new services. Optimize local Docker workflows and resource allocation to ensure dev environments are fast and reliable. • Lead the architectural transition of our build systems (migrating to Turborepo) to drastically reduce build and test latencies across the organization. • Audit and consolidate the existing landscape of AI tools. Lead the selection and implementation of a unified AI suite to ensure consistent adoption and cost efficiency. • Partner with AppSec to manage and approve library versions, ensuring our dependencies are secure without slowing down feature delivery. • Establish engineering standards and governance models that allow for autonomy while maintaining system wide consistency. • Design the YAML workflows, pipelines, and automated checks that developers interact with daily. • Architect and implement self service automation for deployments, reducing manual intervention and ensuring a repeatable, push button experience for all engineering teams. • Integrate automated testing and quality gates into the pipeline to ensure shift left testing is a reality. • Experience building or maintaining IDPs that offer value add to Engineering teams.

About Onebrief Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient. We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world. Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $320m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $2.15B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most. Role Overview We are building a brand new Developer Experience (DevEx) Team as a core strategic investment in our engineering organization's growth and efficiency. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader with a massive multiplier effect, setting the vision for how hundreds of engineers interact with our codebase. You will be the primary architect of the Golden Path, ensuring that from the moment a developer opens their IDE to the moment their code hits production, the process is seamless, fast, and intuitive. You will own the local development environment, lead our AI consolidation strategy, and define the standards for how we build software at scale. Key Responsibilities The Golden Path and Local Development Standardize the IDE: Create and maintain the Golden Path for developers, including recommended plugins, configurations, and internal tooling to reduce cognitive load. Local Experience: Own the bootstrapping process for new services. Optimize local Docker workflows and resource allocation to ensure dev environments are fast and reliable. Dev Tooling: Lead the architectural transition of our build systems (migrating to Turborepo) to drastically reduce build and test latencies across the organization. AI and Innovation AI Tooling Consolidation: Audit and consolidate the existing landscape of AI tools. You will lead the selection and implementation of a unified AI suite to ensure consistent adoption and cost efficiency. Modernization: Lead the strategic planning for language specific upgrades, specifically TypeScript versioning and migration paths. Governance and Security Library Management: Partner with AppSec to manage and approve library versions, ensuring our dependencies are secure without slowing down feature delivery. Standardization: Establish engineering standards and governance models that allow for autonomy while maintaining system wide consistency. CI/CD and Workflow Orchestration Workflow Design: Design the YAML workflows, pipelines, and automated checks that developers interact with daily. Automated Deployments: Architect and implement self service automation for deployments, reducing manual intervention and ensuring a repeatable, push button experience for all engineering teams. Testing Strategy: Integrate automated testing and quality gates into the pipeline to ensure shift left testing is a reality. IDP Experience: You have experience building or maintaining IDPs that offer value add to Engineering teams. Qualifications

Here’s who we are: At Team Updraft our DNA is in world-leading software for WordPress that helps our customers to backup, restore, clone, secure and optimize their WordPress websites. Our global team is behind some of the most popular WordPress plugins in the world! Used by more than 5 million WordPress website owners, our plugins have a reputation for being reliable and powerful. We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Developer to join us, to be successful in this role you will have deep knowledge and experience of developing WordPress plugins. You will have the option to choose your own hours from 32 up to 40 per week, and you can work remotely from anywhere in the world, we simply ask that you have 4 hours of crossover with UK working hours per day. ————————————————————– Lead Developer - WordPress Competitive Salary (depending on experience) Fully Remote We have an exciting opportunity for a Web Developer with excellent PHP, JS and WordPress experience to join a growing, ambitious team to help further develop UpdraftPlus - one of the world’s leading WordPress plugins here at Team Updraft. You will be working together with a small, global team involved in development and testing. Overseeing the development and maintenance of UpdraftPlus, ensuring features are delivered to a high standard and guiding the work of the other developers. What you’ll be doing: Work in PHP, JavaScript and WordPress libraries to write clean, efficient and secure code Line managing the plugin development team Ensuring tasks are appropriately assigned, reviewed, and completed by the team Maintaining high technical standards in the code base Utilising the lead architect’s knowledge to achieve the best direction for the plugin Identifying priorities, resolving blockers Acting as the key point of contact for technical queries related to the plugin Liaising with QA and Product Managers to align development work with wider business goals Your exact responsibilities will depend on your experience, how this fits with other members of the team and subject to discussion and agreement! Requirements Benefits Why Join Us? We are a globally distributed, highly flexible team that values autonomy and impact. You'll have the freedom to manage your own time and work from anywhere in the world (with the exception of Antarctica!). While we primarily work remotely, we also offer: The option to work from our co-working space in Newport, Wales, if you're UK-based. Opportunities to connect with the team at annual WordCamp events across Europe, Asia, or the US. Regular online connections through 1:1s, team meetings, and company updates. We believe in flexible working and are open to discussing various arrangements – whether you're looking for freelance, employed, part-time, full-time, permanent, or contract work, we're keen to find the right fit for the right candidate. If you're ready to make a significant impact as a Lead Developer for UpdraftPlus and help us shape the future of TeamUpdraft, we encourage you to apply!