Contractor: Website Development Lead

Seeking to hire a Contractor Website Development Lead

Scope of Services:

• As a Website Development Lead Contractor, you will help the team deliver high-quality solutions for the marketing experience for Newsela.com, Formative.com and GenerationGenius.com.
• You will provide technical leadership and direction for implementation of new features and will lead and implement architectural and technical best practices.

• You will review requests with leaders from Marketing and Product and work cross-functionally to refine scope and requirements.
• You will refine and break bodies of work into small and iterative deliverables, guide the team in setting achievable sprint goals and will organize sprints to ensure work is delivered with a high degree of quality and in a timely manner.
• As a member of the Technology team, you will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design to refine ambiguous goals into clearly defined, iterative work items.

Why you’re a great fit:

• You have 7+ years of experience in website development using PHP and MySQL.
• You have built complex web applications with maintainable solutions that work and call various services and APIs.
• Advanced knowledge of custom Wordpress development, including data modeling and infrastructure.
• Advanced knowledge and ability to leverage semantic HTML, responsive CSS, and modern design patterns to meet your team’s goals.
• You will be able to communicate technical concepts and processes in English with at least a professional level of proficiency
• Experience with Laravel is a plus
• Experience with AWS is a plus
• Advanced understanding of modern web app architecture and web fundamentals.
• Intermediate to advanced understanding of developer tooling and unit test writing.
• Experience with incorporating and working with REST API’s.
• Intermediate to advanced understanding of relational databases.
• Proficient in English to enable effective communication and collaboration.
• On top of your technical skills, you are excited to work in a collaborative and inclusive environment that supports continued improvement through code reviews and feedback.
• You take pride in your ability to identify missing requirements early in the development cycle, create and maintain performant and scalable backend systems, write resilient and testable code, and deliver on sprint commitments.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.