Contractor: PHP Website Developer New Remote

About the role

We are hiring a Contract PHP Website Developer to work on GenerationGenius.com. 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.

Responsibilities

• Ship full-stack features with measurable product impact
• Provide substantive code review, architectural feedback, not just approvals
• Serve as a first responder for production issues (within working hours): triage, root cause, and preventive measures recommendations
• Improve the team's engineering practice over time: tooling, agentic workflows, technical standards, and documentation that lives where work happens
• Translate product requirements into a technical approach and communicate the reasoning

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in website development using PHP and MySQL
• 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
• Advanced understanding of modern web app architecture and web fundamentals
• Intermediate to advanced understanding of developer tooling and unit test writing
• Experience with Laravel is a plus
• Experience with AWS is a plus

Qualifications

• Advanced understanding of relational databases
• Excited to work in a collaborative and inclusive environment that supports continued improvement through code reviews and feedback
• Takes pride in identifying missing requirements early in the development cycle, creating and maintaining performant and scalable backend systems, writing resilient and testable code, and delivering on sprint commitments

Skills

• PHP
• MySQL
• Custom Wordpress development
• Laravel
• AWS

Benefits

No specific benefits mentioned in the job posting.

Pay

$58,000 - $62,000 USD

Schedule

The posting does not specify a schedule.