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TaxAct · Remote · Remote - Texas

Taxwell helps everyday Americans get every tax advantage they deserve by finding credits and deductions they never even knew existed. Our tax preparation software offers easy guidance and ensures your maximum tax refund. We strive to build a team of like-minded experts in both tax and technology who align with our brand purpose, are advocates for our customers and have a fresh, non-traditional approach to the tax industry.

 

Taxwell is seeking an experienced WordPress consultant to provide approximately 20 hours per week of hands-on technical ownership across eight WordPress sites hosted on WP Engine.


You will be our primary WordPress expert and will work largely independently.


The role combines WordPress and WP Engine administration, security maintenance, troubleshooting, feature development, and technical support for our content and SEO teams. We need someone experienced enough to identify problems, determine the right solution, and carry the work

through to production without requiring substantial oversight.


What You’ll Do

● Administer production, staging, and development environments in WP Engine

● Maintain WordPress core, themes, and plugins across all properties

● Manage deployments, backups, user access, configuration, and environment health

● Identify and fix WordPress vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, and other security issues

● Test updates, resolve plugin and theme conflicts, and remove obsolete components

● Diagnose and fix site errors, broken forms, rendering problems, and performance issues

● Build and modify pages, templates, themes, plugins, and site features

● Complete technical SEO work, including sitemaps, redirects, metadata, schema, canonicals, and robots.txt

● Support content teams with page builds, publishing workflows, and WordPress configuration

● Maintain and extend integrations using APIs and the WordPress REST API

● Support AI-assisted development, content, and publishing workflows

● Coordinate with our engineering, security, infrastructure, and marketing teams when needed


What We’re Looking For

● Deep hands-on experience administering and developing WordPress sites

● Strong PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills

● Experience working directly with WordPress themes, plugins, and APIs

● Hands-on experience administering multiple sites and environments in WP Engine

● Strong knowledge of WordPress security, access control, vulnerability remediation, and plugin risk

● Ability to independently troubleshoot unfamiliar problems and take work from diagnosis through production

● Familiarity with technical SEO and common WordPress SEO tools

● Experience using AI-assisted development tools and integrating AI services into content or publishing workflows

● Clear communication and good judgment when balancing security, stability, effort, and business needs


This is an part-time engagement rather than a full-time position. It is best suited for a senior WordPress generalist who can serve as our primary expert and reliably carry the work within an approximately 20-hour weekly commitment.

At Taxwell, we believe our work benefits from the diverse perspectives of our employees. As such, Taxwell welcomes and celebrates diversity and inclusion and is committed to equal opportunity employment. At Taxwell, you can expect a supportive, open, and inclusive atmosphere and a team that values your contributions.

Taxwell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and any other status protected under applicable law. Taxwell considers information gathered in the hiring process, including information on this application, confidential, and only shares it on a need-to-know basis or as required by law.

 

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at HR@Taxwell.com  or by calling 828-349-5887 to speak with a member of the HR Talent Acquisition team.

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About TaxAct

TaxAct offers income tax preparation software directly to consumers and tax professionals. The process of filing taxes is highly personal and can be extremely complex. At TaxAct we aim to help every customer accurately file their taxes while simultaneously identifying opportunities to improve their financial situation. Since 2000, TaxAct has helped file over 90 million returns through TaxAct consumer and professional software. We believe that everyone should be empowered to do their own taxes, have the proper resources to claim the money they deserve and receive support to make informative financial decisions.

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