Full Stack Developer
About The Position
We are seeking a highly motivated Full Stack Developer to join our team to create and maintain school websites. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining headless cms/WordPress-based websites for schools, ensuring that the websites are user-friendly, visually appealing, and easy to navigate. The role will involve collaborating with school administrators, teachers, and IT staff to develop and implement website features and functionalities that support the school's mission and goals. SUMMARY: We are seeking a highly motivated Full Stack Developer to join our team to create and maintain school websites. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining WordPress-based websites for schools, ensuring that the websites are user-friendly, visually appealing, and easy to navigate. The role will involve collaborating with school administrators, teachers, and IT staff to develop and implement website features and functionalities that support the school's mission and goals. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and/or certifications in Computer Science, Web Development, or a related field preferred
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in headless CMS (Contentful desired) /WordPress development and web development with strong React ecosystem knowledge
- Proficient with both front and back-end development for Contentful CMS
- Strong experience with front-end web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and AJAX
- Deep understanding of React patterns, hooks, context, and performance optimization
- Experience with Next.js, SSR/SSG concepts, and modern build tools (Webpack, Vite, etc.)
- Well versed with data caching and GraphQL as it relates to headless CMS
- Understanding of web design principles and user experience best practices
- Experience with website analytics and monitoring tools
- Experience with website security, backups and maintenance
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team
- Strong communication and project management skills
- Ability to clear required background check
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with schools or educational organizations is a plus
- If you are passionate about web development and have experience in headless CMS development, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to work with schools and educational organizations.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and update headless CMS/WordPress-based websites for numerous schools
- Design and develop new website features, functionalities and templates
- Collaborate with school administrators, teachers, marketing, and IT staff to determine website requirements and create project plans
- Ensure website design and functionality are optimized for user experience and accessibility
- Provide architectural oversight, code refactoring, improvements, and code reviews
- Assist teams in website migration tasks, triaging bugs and resolving production issues
- Manage DevOps processes and facilitate testing, deployments, security, and monitoring
- Review and manage pull requests and code merges
- Monitor website traffic, user behavior, and other analytics to inform ongoing improvements
- Ensure website security, backups and maintenance
- This role will have end to end accountability of development, testing, deployment and ownership of the code after releasing in production
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices
Benefits
- Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
