Lead Software Engineer – Digital Platforms

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $165k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Stand Together

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5001 - 10000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

Healthcare • Consulting • Legal

Stand Together is a community-focused organization dedicated to tackling America's biggest problems by empowering individuals. The organization is committed to addressing various issues such as education reform, health care, criminal justice, foreign policy, and economic challenges. Through partnerships, media, and philanthropy, Stand Together collaborates with changemakers to create sustainable solutions. It prioritizes empowering communities and fostering innovation through a principled approach that leverages education, business investment, and policy advocacy. Stand Together also emphasizes the importance of free speech and reducing recidivism, aiming to transform society positively.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership for a large web ecosystem of approximately 140 WordPress sites and Drupal properties • Own architecture, hosting and infrastructure strategy, integrations, and long-term platform direction • Build, review, and debug code alongside engineers • Own deployment and release processes, CI/CD, and automation • Manage plugins, dependencies, security, patching, and remediation across the portfolio • Establish engineering and QA standards with the SDET team • Lead technical discovery and estimation, communicating estimates, dependencies, risks, and technical context to Product • Participate in Product discovery and manage stakeholder expectations • Improve triage, allocation, and sequencing of engineering work • Mentor and develop engineers and reduce key-person dependencies through documentation, knowledge sharing, and coverage • Develop a 12–24 month strategy for consolidating or migrating WordPress and Drupal sites • Extend technical leadership across additional workstreams and technology stacks

🎯 Requirements

• Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience, including time as a technical lead, staff engineer, or engineering lead for a team or portfolio • Track record of remaining heavily hands-on while leading • Strength in architecture and systems thinking across an ecosystem of applications • Sound technical judgment and ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders • Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers, including senior individual contributors • Supervisory experience, including directly managing engineers, setting performance expectations, and conducting performance reviews • Reliable estimation and early identification of risks, dependencies, and sequencing needs • Comfort participating in product discovery and challenging requests respectfully • Deep current WordPress experience: custom themes and plugins, Gutenberg, Advanced Custom Fields, WP-CLI, and multisite or large multi-site portfolios • Deep current Drupal experience: custom modules and themes, Drupal 10+, entity and configuration management systems, Views, Drush, Composer-based site builds, and headless or decoupled Drupal using JSON:API or GraphQL with a JavaScript front end • Strong modern PHP, including object-oriented design and Composer • SQL experience, including query performance work • Front-end JavaScript experience, including NextJs, React, and modern build tooling • Experience owning hosting, deployment pipelines, and environment configuration for production web platforms • Strong CI/CD and DevOps skills, including automated build, test, and deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, environment and secrets management, and monitoring, logging, and alerting • Experience and general knowledge of SSL certificates, DNS, and web protocols • Track record of using AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate work • Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach, and commitment to its culture • Upsun, AWS, and Cloudflare or comparable CDN experience preferred • Experience consolidating, migrating, or reducing a site portfolio preferred • Accessibility experience to WCAG 2.2 AA preferred • Experience working with marketing and campaign teams on tight timelines preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting • Flexible time off • Comprehensive health and dental plans • Wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace • Meaningful career with a community of over 1,400 employees • Non-hierarchical environment empowering employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents