Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is a 150-year-old conservation nonprofit focused on outdoor recreation from Maine to Virginia. They are seeking a Lead Web Platform Engineer to own the evolution of their website platform and design the future-state architecture. This role involves stabilizing the current WordPress environment while ensuring reliable and secure digital experiences for their constituents.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Health Plan: Generous employer contributions through Cigna with optional vision and dental.
- Other Insurance: 100% employer paid life insurance, AD&D insurance, long-term disability.
- Career Progression: The potential to have annual compensation reviews commensurate with performance and effort.
- Retirement: Mandatory 403(b) with 4% matching employer contributions and a vesting schedule.
- Paid Time Off: up to 4 weeks of paid earned time and up to 11 paid company holidays.
- 30% discount on AMC Merchandise
- Free Annual AMC Membership
- 10 Free nights at AMC locations
- Educational Assistance
- Prodeals discounts on equipment & gear and more!
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