2 months ago
Base Salary
$58k - $62k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ship full-stack features with measurable product impact.
- Refine ambiguous goals into iterative work items and help guide achievable sprint goals and delivery.
- Provide substantive code reviews and architectural feedback.
- Respond to production issues during working hours through triage, root-cause analysis, and preventive-measure recommendations.
- Improve engineering tooling, AI-agent workflows, technical standards, and documentation.
- Translate product requirements into technical approaches and communicate the reasoning.
- Own work through request, shipment, monitoring, and production stability.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of website development experience using PHP and MySQL.
- Advanced custom WordPress development experience, including data modeling and infrastructure.
- Advanced knowledge of semantic HTML, responsive CSS, modern design patterns, and web application architecture.
- Experience building complex web applications that integrate with services and APIs.
- Intermediate to advanced understanding of developer tooling, unit testing, relational databases, and REST APIs.
- Professional-level English communication skills.
- Laravel and AWS experience are preferred.
- Ability to identify missing requirements, build performant and scalable backend systems, write resilient and testable code, and deliver sprint commitments.
- Ability to work collaboratively in an inclusive environment and participate constructively in code reviews and feedback.
Benefits
- Remote work is indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
- Total compensation includes incentive stock options and benefits.
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About Newsela
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.