Backend Engineer

• Own and manage the website lifecycle from development through production.
• Monitor website health, uptime, performance, and availability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve website issues, bugs, outages, and performance bottlenecks.
• Perform regular website audits, maintenance, upgrades, and testing across WordPress and PHP sites.
• Manage backups, disaster recovery processes, and restoration testing.
• Administer WordPress environments across development, staging, and production.
• Install, configure, update, and maintain plugins, themes, and WordPress core.
• Develop and maintain custom WordPress themes and plugins.
• Optimize website speed, caching, and overall performance.
• Ensure WordPress security best practices are followed.
• Design, develop, modify, and maintain custom PHP applications and integrations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve PHP code issues.
• Review, optimize, and refactor legacy code when required.
• Implement new functionality and business requirements.
• Manage and maintain MySQL databases.
• Optimize SQL queries and database performance.
• Ensure database integrity, security, and backup processes.
• Support data migration and troubleshooting activities.
• Manage website hosting environments, including WP Engine and Linux-based servers.
• Configure and maintain web servers, domains, DNS records, SSL certificates, and email-related DNS records.
• Work with hosting providers and infrastructure teams to resolve server-related issues.
• Monitor server resources, logs, and performance metrics.
• Implement website and server security best practices.
• Manage Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Cloudflare, and security configurations.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediation.
• Perform malware scanning and security monitoring.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security policies.
• Support third-party integrations and APIs.
• Manage website integrations with CRM systems, marketing platforms, and external applications.
• Automate recurring maintenance and monitoring tasks.

Webmaster, PHP, WordPress

• Serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, expected to further develop leadership, guidance and mentoring skills
• Responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements
• Impacts the long-term goals of the program while contributing to the implementation of the program's development strategy
• May serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders
• Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the systems they own, informs educational opportunities and system improvements
• Actively mentors and assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills

Senior Software Engineer – Front End/Back End

• Feature development
• Integration of AI services and models (Python / APIs / microservices)
• Database design
• Systems design
• Quality assurance
• Project-based development, working on one project for a defined timeframe

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Senior Software Engineer – Front End/Back End

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