Contract PHP Website Developer

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. 

Someone who owns the full lifecycle. Takes a problem from request to shipped, monitored, and stable in production. 

• 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.

You have 7+ years of experience in website development using PHP and MySQL. 

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. 

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.