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Lead Software Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Sep 28, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Providing technical leadership for a large web ecosystem, the full-time Lead Software Engineer will manage approximately 140 WordPress sites and Drupal properties, while remaining hands-on in coding, architecture, and engineering standards in a remote work environment.

Key responsibilities
  • Own architecture, hosting, and infrastructure strategy across the web ecosystem
  • Lead technical discovery and estimation, providing credible assessments to Product teams
  • Mentor and develop engineers, ensuring knowledge sharing and reducing key-person dependencies
Required qualifications
  • Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience, including leadership roles
  • Deep, current experience with WordPress and Drupal, including custom themes and plugins
  • Strong modern PHP skills and experience with SQL and front-end JavaScript frameworks
  • Proven CI/CD and DevOps skills, including automated build and deployment pipelines
  • Experience managing hosting and environment configuration for production web platforms

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