Stand Together
Lead Software Engineer - Digital Platforms
$165K–$195K
Arlington, VA · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- Eight or more years; includes time as a technical lead, staff engineer, or engineering lead. Supervisory experience is also required.
About the job
Provides hands-on technical leadership for a large WordPress and Drupal web ecosystem, guiding architecture, delivery practices, engineering work, and platform strategy.
What you'll do
- Own architecture, hosting and infrastructure strategy, integrations, deployments, release processes, and security management across the web portfolio.
- Build, review, and debug code while leading technical discovery, estimation, work allocation, engineering standards, and engineer development.
- Develop and sequence a 12- to 24-month strategy for consolidating or migrating appropriate WordPress and Drupal sites.
What they ask for
- Eight or more years of professional software engineering experience, including time as a technical lead, staff engineer, or engineering lead.
- Supervisory experience, including directly managing engineers, setting performance expectations, and conducting performance reviews.
- Deep, current WordPress and Drupal experience, including the platform features and tools named in the posting.
- Strong modern PHP, SQL, front-end JavaScript, and experience owning production web hosting, deployment pipelines, and environment configuration.
Nice to have
- Upsun, AWS, and Cloudflare or comparable CDN experience; portfolio consolidation or migration experience.
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility experience and experience working with marketing and campaign teams on tight timelines.
Pay
USD 165,000–195,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
WordPress, Drupal 10 or later, PHP, Composer, SQL, NextJs, React, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Track record of using AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate work.
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