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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Web Platform Engineer - **Company:** Appalachian Mountain Club - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $77,214.0 - $104,244.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software System Penetration Testing, Continuous Integration, Data Integration, Digital Architecture, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Payment Gateway, Salesforce.Com, Web Application Security, Shopify, Management of Software Versions, Web Platforms, WordPress, Caching, Data Strategy, Api Management - **Published:** July 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=88558e6fd6124715 ## About the Role * A systems thinker who sees architecture, not just pages * A strategic technologist who understands that the website is a critical integration layer across all of our platforms * Comfortable owning the platform end-to-end * Equally strong in execution and design * Self-directed and proactive * Comfortable collaborating across multiple stakeholder teams * Motivated by building something durable and modern, * 3-5 Experience owning/administering a CMS/web platform in production * Strong WordPress experience required * Experience with administering payment gateways and webhook/API integrations * Hands-on AWS experience for PHP/WordPress workloads * Proven experience maintaining data integrations with a variety of platforms. Salesforce experience preferred * Strong grounding in web security, least-privilege/IAM, secrets management, and PII/compliance considerations Preferred Qualifications * Nonprofit domain experience (donations, memberships, recurring gifts, acknowledgments) * Gravity Forms experience * Headless CMS experience * Experience integrating CMS with Salesforce or other CRM platforms * Experience with structured data, schema, and AI-ready content modeling * Familiarity with security reviews and penetration testing coordination ## Description We're seeking a hands-on Lead Web Platform Engineer to own the evolution of our website platform. You will also manage day-to-day operations, security, and performance. Our current site uses a number of plugins and Gravity Forms to collect donations and manage membership renewals/activations, integrated with Click & Pledge and Salesforce for donation and membership data. You'll partner closely with our Salesforce, Data, and Marketing teams to ensure reliable, secure, and measurable digital experiences for donors, members, volunteers, and staff. While this is a remote role location is flexible only within the AMC's footprint. What You'll Be Doing at AMC What Makes this Role Unique * You will shape the future of a high-visibility digital platform * You will influence how our mission is experienced online * You will design the path from legacy CMS to a modern architecture * You will work within a broader enterprise transformation effort Stabilize and Elevate the Current Wordpress Environment * Administer and optimize our WordPress platform * Mature hosting architecture within AWS * Oversee plugin lifecycle, versioning, and governance * Improve performance (caching, CDN optimization) * Strengthen security posture and access controls * Improve CI/CD and environment promotion processes * Ensure integration reliability (Salesforce, Shopify, booking systems) Architect the Next Generation Platform * Create a more unified digital experience * Design and document a headless CMS future state * Lead technical evaluations of CMS replacement options * Define content modeling and structured metadata strategy * Establish standards for APIs, content delivery, and omnichannel readiness * Partner with Marketing to modernize publishing workflows * Create phased migration roadmap and technical proofs of concept Establish Platform Governance * Define publishing and deployment standards * Formalize performance SLAs and monitoring practices * Create documentation and architecture diagrams * Improve taxonomy and structured content governance * Align website evolution with enterprise data strategy Be a Strategic Technical Partner * Translate business needs into digital architecture decisions * Proactively identify modernization opportunities * Contribute to multi-year digital roadmap planning * Provide thoughtful platform recommendations grounded in scalability and sustainability ## Related Videos - [Kill Your WordPress. 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