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Internal Tools Developer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Fluency in English with excellent communication skills
  • Experience in Python (Quart, FastAPI, async patterns, pytest)
  • Experience in TypeScript / JavaScript (Node.js)
  • Ability to work independently in a small team

Responsibilities

  • Develop and refine specialized custom tools, integrating with core platforms via APIs
  • Logically leverage AI in applicable feature development projects
  • Assist with the administration and operation of servers for internal tooling
  • Provide assistance to end users on custom-developed tools and applications

Key facts

  • Remote from: Hungary
  • Full time
  • English

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Curiosity
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management

About the company

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Kinsta

Cloud Computing & Infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS)

About us: Kinsta was founded in 2013 with a desire to change the status quo. We set out to create the best WordPress hosting platform in the world, and that’s our promise. At Kinsta, we take managed WordPress hosting and performance to the next level. Powered by Google Cloud Platform and their lightning-fast premium tier network, WordPress users can choose from 25+ data centers around the globe. We host all types of sites, from small blogs up to Fortune 500 customers. Kinsta is obsessed with performance: Imagine a car enthusiast building their dream ride. That's us with WordPress hosting. We love what we do and are obsessed with fine-tuning our servers to deliver maximum speeds. Kinsta is global: We serve thousands of clients from 128 countries around the globe through our 25+ data centers. The only continent we haven't reached yet is Antarctica. Kinsta is local: Wherever it is on the globe, we like to be locals. That's why we hired a remote support team that covers all time zones. We also provide native-speaking support in 6 languages. Kinsta is diverse: Our team is remote-first with some local hubs. This allows us to hire top talent worldwide without boundaries. Our diversity is also our power. We all come from different walks of life, and this widens our unified perspective. It instills an understanding that we can use on a daily basis when interacting with each other or with clients. Kinsta loves WordPress: Just like you, we are all members of the WordPress community: users, developers, and enthusiasts. That's why we build our business around the best CMS in the world. Kinsta is independent: We are proud to be one of the fastest-growing managed WordPress hosts in the industry. This means stability for our platform and, consequently, to your site. Kinsta is deeply rooted in hosting and is here to stay.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryCloud Computing & Infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS)
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

 

Kinsta is one of the top providers of managed hosting for WordPress, with a growing club of 120,000+ businesses including startups, universities, and Fortune 500 firms. We’re motivated by excellent quality and proud to have received a 97% satisfaction rating from our customers.

That's because, to us, each day is a chance to grow. As a team, we continuously inspire each other to learn new and better ways to make an impact. We own our jobs proudly - our leaders don't hold our hands, but they're in our corner whenever we ask for help - and our environment is flexible and remote-first. 

As an Internal Tools Developer, you'll use your development skills, curiosity, ingenuity, and passion to solve problems to build and maintain custom tools for our customer service teams (Technical Support, Billing, Customer Success, Malware & Abuse, and Migrations). In this role, you'll be instrumental in empowering and enabling our teams to maximize their efficiency as they deliver the world-class support and customer service Kinsta is known for.

 

 

 
 

What You'll Do:
  • Develop and refine specialized custom tools, integrating with core platforms via APIs to pull and push necessary data, designed to augment team member workflows and increase efficiency and effectiveness.

  • Logically and sensibly leverage AI in applicable feature development projects to further enhance team member workflows and abilities.

  • Assist with the administration and operation of servers that house internal tooling.

  • Provide assistance to end users (colleagues) on custom-developed tools and applications


What You Bring To The Role:
  • You are completely fluent in English with excellent communication skills

  • You possess a deep-seated curiosity and a passion for professional growth, constantly seeking to refine your technical expertise and soft skills alike

  • The ability to work independently in an extremely small team, ask probing questions, and proactively anticipate challenges and potential solutions

  • A penchant for looking beyond the text in the Jira ticket to think bigger and deeper about the assigned work 

  • You consistently meet deadlines and take personal ownership of outcomes. You communicate early if timelines are at risk and focus on delivering real business value quickly and efficiently

  • Excitement to use tools such as Claude Code to enable yourself to increase personal efficiently amid a “trust but verify” mindset

  • Experience in the following areas:

    • Python (Quart, FastAPI, async patterns, pytest)

    • TypeScript / JavaScript (Node.js)

    • MySQL

    • REST API structure & JWT authentication


Bonus if you have experience with:
  • LLM API integration (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic)

  • GitHub Actions CI/CD

  • Linux server administration (systemd, Nginx, PM2, SSH/rsync, Bash)

  • Redis (pub/sub, task queuing)

  • PHP / WordPress ecosystem

  • Svelte / SvelteKit & Chrome Extension development

  • Intercom API

  • GraphQL

Benefits:
  • Flexible and remote-first environment.

  • Annual remote expense budget.

  • Flexible PTO.

  • Paid parental leave.

  • Annual professional development budget: available after one year with Kinsta.

  • Sabbatical: available after three years with Kinsta (and every three years thereafter).

  • Location-specific healthcare benefits (includes vision and dental) for employees hired in the USA, Canada, UK, and Hungary.

  • Pension plan for employees hired in the UK, and 401k contributions for employees hired in the USA.

Kinsta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and we will take actions to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, religion, creed, disability, marital status, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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