Senior Contentful Engineer

TAXWELL • Haverford, PA

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About The Position

Taxwell is seeking a Senior Contentful Engineer to support and evolve our Contentful platform while driving innovation across content operations and digital experiences. This role will focus on content modeling, platform development, integrations, AI-enabled automation, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, high-quality web experiences and improve operational efficiency. This role will primarily support TaxAct as the organization helps everyday Americans file their taxes. We seek to build a team of experts in tax and technology who are customer advocates and have the mindset to reimagine the services our customers receive.

Requirements

• Contentful platform expertise
• Experience with content modeling
• Experience with platform development and integrations
• Experience with AI-enabled automation
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration
• Experience delivering scalable, high-quality web experiences
• Experience improving operational efficiency
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with DevOps and Security teams
• Experience mentoring engineers

Responsibilities

• Engineering: Design and implement scalable Contentful architectures supporting multiple websites, applications, and digital experiences.
• Define content modeling best practices that balance flexibility, governance, localization, and performance.
• Lead Contentful environment strategy, release management, and migration planning.
• Establish reusable content components and patterns across multiple brands and business units.
• Develop and maintain integrations between Contentful and modern frontend frameworks.
• Ensure performance, scalability, accessibility, and SEO best practices are incorporated into platform implementations.
• Platform Operations: Manage environments, roles, permissions, workflows, and governance.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines supporting content model changes and application deployments.
• Monitor platform health, troubleshoot production issues, and improve reliability.
• Support and execute complex content updates, publishing activities, and time-sensitive business changes while improving content authoring workflows through automation.
• Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Engineering, UX Designers, and Marketing teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers on Contentful architecture and development best practices.
• Participate in technical design reviews and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Security teams to ensure compliance and operational excellence.
• Contentful Lead: Define engineering standards and best practices for headless CMS development.
• Evaluate new Contentful capabilities and recommend platform improvements.
• Lead technical discovery for new digital initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement in developer experience, platform reliability, and content operations.
• Author, edit, and publish content in Contentful, including complex and time-sensitive content updates, by partnering with Marketing, Product, UX, Legal, and other business stakeholders to gather requirements, implement changes, and ensure content accuracy, consistency, and adherence to governance standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed