Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Drake Software is a leading digital tax filing platform that helps everyday Americans maximize their tax refunds. They are seeking a Senior Contentful Engineer to support and evolve their Contentful platform, focusing on content modeling, platform development, and driving innovation in digital experiences.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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