Lead Software Engineer - Digital Platforms

Own architecture across the web ecosystem, including hosting and infrastructure strategy, integrations, and long-term platform direction.

Stay hands-on. A meaningful share of your time is spent building, reviewing, and debugging alongside the engineers you lead.

Own deployment and release processes, CI/CD, and automation, including plugin and dependency update automation.

Own plugin, dependency, and security management across the portfolio, and set the patching and remediation cadence.

Establish engineering and QA standards in partnership with our SDET team.

Lead technical discovery and estimation, and give Product credible estimates, dependencies, risks, and technical context they can prioritize against.

Participate in Product discovery where technical assessment is required, while Product retains responsibility for business prioritization.

Manage stakeholder expectations and appropriately challenge requests, including saying when a commitment is not realistic and what the alternative is.

Improve the triage, allocation, and sequencing of engineering work across the workstream.

Mentor and develop engineers, and reduce key-person dependencies through documentation, knowledge sharing, and deliberate coverage.

Develop a 12 to 24 month strategy for consolidating or migrating appropriate WordPress and Drupal sites, and sequence that work against ongoing campaign demand.

Identify opportunities to extend technical leadership across additional workstreams and technology stacks.

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.

A track record of remaining heavily hands-on while leading. This is not a management role with occasional coding.

Strength in architecture and systems thinking across an ecosystem of applications rather than a single site.

Sound technical judgment under pressure, and the ability to explain a technical trade-off to a non-technical stakeholder.

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 the habit of surfacing risks, dependencies, and sequencing needs early.