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















