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Lead Software Engineer Digital Platforms

Stand Together

Job Location:

Arlington, TX - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 165000 - 195000

Posted: 5 September 2026 (11 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 3 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps Americas boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our countrysbiggest problems from education to the economy broken communities and toxic division among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding thought leadership a network of peers and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.

As the Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer you will provide the technical leadership for a large and complex web ecosystem including approximately 140 WordPress sites supporting our Grassroots workstreamas well as our Drupal properties.This is a working leadership role.You will stay hands-on in the code while owning technical strategy architecture engineering standards technical discovery and estimation mentoring work allocation and the partnership with Product and stakeholders.

You willprovide technical leadership across both our WordPress and Drupal platforms beginning withthe Grassroots workstream andextendingacrossadditionalworkstreams and technology stacksover time.

How You Will Contribute

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 andsetthe 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 while Productretainsresponsibility 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 a12 to24 monthstrategy forconsolidatingor migratingappropriate WordPressand Drupalsites and sequence that work against ongoing campaign demand.

Identifyopportunities to extend technical leadership acrossadditionalworkstreamsand technology stacks.

What You Will Bring

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 recordofremainingheavily 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.

Comfortparticipatingin product discovery and challenging requests respectfully whilemaintainingthe relationship.

Deep current WordPress experience: custom themes and plugins the block editor (Gutenberg) Advanced Custom Fields WP-CLI and multisite or large multi-site portfolios.

Deep current Drupal experience: custom modules and themes Drupal 10 or later the entity and configuration management systems ViewsDrush Composer-based site builds and headless or decoupled Drupal usingJSON:APIorGraphQLwith a JavaScript front end.

Strong modern PHP including object-oriented design and Composer.

Experience withSQLa must including query performance work.

Experience with front-end JavaScript(NextJs Reactetc)and modern build tooling.

Experience owning hosting deployment pipelines and environment configuration for production web platforms.

Strong CI/CD and DevOps skills: building andmaintainingautomated build test and deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI or comparable) infrastructure as code containerization environment and secrets management and monitoring logging and alerting for production systems.

Experience and general knowledge of SSL certificates DNS and web protocols.

Upsun AWS and Cloudflare or comparable CDN experience preferred.

Experienceconsolidating migrating or reducing a site portfolio preferred.

Accessibility experiencetoWCAG 2.2 AA preferred.

Experience working with marketing and campaign teams on tight timelines preferred.

Trackrecord ofusing AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate your work.

Enthusiasm to contribute to StandTogethersvision and principled approachto solving problems and a commitment to stewarding our culture which champions values including transformation and innovation entrepreneurialism humility and respect.

What We Offer

Competitive benefits:Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting flexible time off comprehensive health and dental plans plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace.

A meaningful career:Join a passionate community of over 1400 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges.

Commitment to growth:Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover develop and apply their unique talents.

$165000 - $195000 a year

For this role the anticipated base salary range is $165000$195000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus compensation designed to align total compensation with an employees overall contribution to the organization.

Our Principles-Based Management (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors including relevant experience capabilitiesdemonstratedskills role responsibilities and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach base salary may vary within or outside of theanticipatedrange based on these considerations.

Our Values:Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management (PBM) a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress such as dignity openness and bottom-up empowerment. PBM empowers employees to be entrepreneurial to innovate and to continually drive transformation.

We believe diversity fuels creativity broadens knowledge and helps drive success. That is why were proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty dignity and respect.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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