Senior CMS Engineer

Happy Cog•Jenks, OK

12d•$95,000 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

The focus of this role is on CMS-based development, writing custom integrations, plugins and other code that connects CMS-driven websites to external APIs and systems. You should have experience with one or more CMS platforms and be comfortable with frontend skills like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as well as backend skills like Node.js, PHP, etc. We expect engineers at this level to do their work with AI agents. We use a spec-driven process to plan and specify features with AI before anyone starts implementing them, and our senior engineers help set the AI development standards that the rest of the team follows. We're looking for people who have already built this into how they work and have opinions about what makes it go well. You’ll be working on 3-4 projects at any time; typically one to two larger projects and a few smaller projects to keep things fresh. We’re a fast-paced agency with a great team environment, so you’ll never get bored. We need someone who loves keeping up-to-date on the newest advancements in the field and can figure out when to start applying those advancements to client work. You'll work with other smart developers who can help you grow and challenge you, as well as help you along the way. You’ll also be communicating directly with clients and with our project managers to understand their requirements and present your work. Your job will be fun, challenging, and interesting.

Requirements

You should have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience, preferably in a technical role and with agency experience.
Deep experience with one or more CMS platforms, both implementing and customizing them to meet the needs of a project.
Full Stack experience with a variety of frontend and backend tools and technologies and their surrounding ecosystems is a requirement for this role.
Experience interacting with and building backend REST and GraphQL APIs
Knowledge and experience with integrating with third party APIs
Hands-on experience using AI agents for planning and development in a production codebase, including reviewing what the agent produces before it ships.
Experience leading a development team or acting as a technical lead, including partnering with a project manager on scope, estimates, and budget.
Comfort talking directly with clients about requirements, technical trade-offs, and project status.
Experience building out application user experiences and understanding user behavior and intent, and using this information to build intuitive apps and websites for our clients.
Knowledge of Git and Github, we use these on all projects.

Responsibilities

Building new applications, websites, and features with a variety of platforms including Craft CMS, WordPress, Sanity, Contentful, and more.
Planning and implementing work with AI agents, using our spec-driven process to settle the approach before the code gets written, and helping set the AI development standards that more junior engineers follow.
Acting as the Technical Lead (TL) on your projects. You'll partner with the project manager to lead the project’s development team, and you'll share ownership of the project's financial success alongside its technical success, including managing scope against the budget and raising problems early enough to do something about them.
Serving as the point of escalation for other engineers on your projects, keeping an eye on architectural decisions and code quality, and guiding more junior developers.
Contributing to high-level architecture planning and consulting with our internal team on approach and level of effort.
Flexing your muscles on aspects of application development outside of app code: database modeling, query optimization, setting up efficient logging and monitoring solutions, and other advanced requirements for highly functioning apps (you do not need to be a DBA/Systems Administrator/DevOps expert).
Working closely with our frontend and backend engineers on website projects.
Writing and maintaining clear documentation of your work, so that others on the team can pick up where you left off or learn from your experience on a project.
Staying up-to-date on the latest development technologies and methodologies.
Communicating directly with clients and our project managers to understand their requirements, work through specifications, make technical decisions, and present status updates and demos.