Software Engineer I

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Part-time WordPress engineer owning Taxwell’s eight tax software websites on WP Engine. Maintaining security, performance, SEO, integrations, and publishing workflows.

Responsibilities:

  • Administer production, staging, and development environments in WP Engine
  • Maintain WordPress core, themes, and plugins across eight properties
  • Manage deployments, backups, user access, configuration, and environment health
  • Identify and fix WordPress vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, and other security issues
  • Test updates, resolve plugin and theme conflicts, and remove obsolete components
  • Diagnose and fix site errors, broken forms, rendering problems, and performance issues
  • Build and modify pages, templates, themes, plugins, and site features
  • Complete technical SEO work, including sitemaps, redirects, metadata, schema, canonicals, and robots.txt
  • Support content teams with page builds, publishing workflows, and WordPress configuration
  • Maintain and extend integrations using APIs and the WordPress REST API
  • Support AI-assisted development, content, and publishing workflows
  • Coordinate with engineering, security, infrastructure, and marketing teams when needed
  • Serve as the primary WordPress expert with largely independent technical ownership

Requirements:

  • Deep hands-on experience administering and developing WordPress sites
  • Strong PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills
  • Experience working directly with WordPress themes, plugins, and APIs
  • Hands-on experience administering multiple sites and environments in WP Engine
  • Strong knowledge of WordPress security, access control, vulnerability remediation, and plugin risk
  • Ability to independently troubleshoot unfamiliar problems and take work from diagnosis through production
  • Familiarity with technical SEO and common WordPress SEO tools
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools and integrating AI services into content or publishing workflows
  • Clear communication and good judgment when balancing security, stability, effort, and business needs
  • Approximately 20-hour weekly commitment

Benefits:

  • Part-time engagement of approximately 20 hours per week
  • Supportive, open, and inclusive atmosphere
  • Equal opportunity employment
  • Disability assistance and accommodation available during the hiring process