Contractor: PHP Website Developer

1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Contract
Senior
Software Development
Newsela

Newsela

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject. They provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With a focus on meaningful classroom le...

Diversified Consumer Services
251-1K
Founded 2013
$172M raised

Description

  • Refine ambiguous requests into small, iterative deliverables and achievable sprint goals.
  • Organize sprints to deliver work on time and with high quality.
  • Ship full-stack features with measurable product impact.
  • Provide substantive code reviews and architectural feedback.
  • Serve as a first responder for production issues during working hours, including triage and root-cause analysis.
  • Recommend preventive measures for production issues.
  • Improve engineering practices through tooling, agentic workflows, technical standards, and documentation.
  • Translate product requirements into a technical approach and explain the reasoning.
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design.
  • Raise risks, design drift, and brittle patterns early and help drive unowned problems when priorities shift.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in website development using PHP and MySQL.
  • Experience building complex web applications that integrate with services and APIs.
  • Advanced knowledge of custom WordPress development, including data modeling and infrastructure.
  • Advanced knowledge of semantic HTML, responsive CSS, and modern design patterns.
  • Professional-level English communication skills for technical concepts and processes.
  • Experience with Laravel is a plus.
  • Experience with AWS is a plus.
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding of developer tooling and unit test writing.
  • Experience incorporating and working with REST APIs.
  • Intermediate to advanced understanding of relational databases.

Benefits

  • Base compensation range of $58,000–$62,000 USD.
  • Total compensation includes incentive stock options.
  • Benefits included with the role.
  • Remote role (#LI-Remote).
  • Opportunity to work on AI-native workflows using coding agents.
  • Mission-driven work focused on improving education and student outcomes.

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