Contractor – PHP Website Developer

🕒 July 20

💃 Latin America – Remote

💵 $58k - $62k / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 4%

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Newsela

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

Education • eCommerce • B2C

Newsela is a fast-growing education technology startup with a single ambitious goal: Meaningful classroom learning for every student. We provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With nearly two million teachers signed up, Newsela is helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We seek passionate, creative employees with quick minds and warm hearts. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.

📋 Description

• Ship full-stack features with measurable product impact. • Provide substantive code review and architectural feedback. • Respond to production issues: triage, root cause analysis, recommendations. • Improve engineering practices: tooling, workflows, documentation. • Translate product requirements into technical approaches and communicate reasoning.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in website development using PHP and MySQL. • Built complex web applications calling various services and APIs. • Advanced knowledge of custom Wordpress development including data modeling. • Proficient in semantic HTML, responsive CSS, and modern design patterns. • Professional English proficiency in communicating technical concepts. • 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 REST API integration. • Intermediate to advanced understanding of relational databases. • Ability to thrive in a collaborative and inclusive environment that encourages continual improvement.

🏖️ Benefits

• Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. • Total compensation includes incentive stock options and benefits.