Job Description
Are you passionate about using your technical skills to make a global impact? At Truth For Life, our mission is to teach the Bible with clarity and relevance on a daily basis, to listeners all over the world. As a Backend Web Developer, you’ll play a crucial role in advancing our mission by creating robust, efficient, and scalable web applications that deliver Alistair Begg’s Bible teaching to millions of listeners.
Role Summary:
- Backend Development: You’ll use your expertise in backend technologies (such as Python, MySQL and Django) to build and maintain scalable APIs, databases, and server-side logic.
- Mission-Driven: Your work directly impacts our mission of spreading God’s Word. Every line of code contributes to teaching the Bible to people worldwide.
- Collaboration: You’ll work closely with our frontend developers, designers, and content creators to create seamless user experiences.
- Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices to ensure our systems are cutting-edge and efficient.
Mission
To create, develop, test, maintain, monitor, analyze, and report on Truth For Life public facing digital assets (web site, streaming apps, streaming services) with a view to contributing to Truth For Life’s overall ministry goals and specific ministry projects, and maximizing public user experience with those assets.
Outcomes
- Consistently deliver Truth For Life content to digital channels to maximize distribution.
- Expand Truth For Life website features and functionality.
- Coordinate as part of a larger team with internal developers and outside developer vendors.
- Serve the Customer Service, Marketing, Stations, Content and IT departments with their digital communication needs.
- Analyze the performance of current digital assets, create plans for improvement, and follow through with development and deployment of approved updates.
- Troubleshoot problems and determine the best course for correction.
- Manage projects as assigned.
- Encourage and pursue healthy communication within the Digital Communications department.
Desired Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming or related field and a strong knowledge of computer programming.
Preferred Requirements:
- 5 years or greater of relevant technical experience or demonstrated success in a Web Development or Application Development role.
- Experience working with Python, Django, HTML, MySQL and/or other programming languages, demonstrating experience in developing larger-scale services and processes to support enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Experience: 5+ years or shows strong proficiency in developing for the web
- Experience: 3+ years using Django, Google Analytics
- Some experience in REST API development to bring multiple systems together.
- Experience with source control such as Git.
Competencies
- Passion : Driven to bring Bible teaching to listeners around the world.
- Integrity : Consistent, honorable use of freedom.
- Analysis : Able to make great use of data and feedback to provide meaningful insights and recommendations.
- Organization/Planning : Able to define project scope, manage deadlines, resources, and deliverables for a successful and timely outcome.
- Teamwork : Inspires positive team culture in which individuals rally behind common goals and genuinely appreciate working with one another.
- Efficiency : Committed to high quality, high producing, lean operations.
- Independence : Able to manage multiple tasks and effectively meet deadlines and help others along the same lines.
- Adaptability : Easily adjusts to new conditions on the fly and welcomes challenges as opportunities. Likes to create and maintain agile-like processes and workflow.
- Assertiveness : Proactively offers suggestions, opinions, and openly asks questions.
- Tenacity : Highly persistent in maintaining or seeking to meet goals/objectives, determined to overcome obstacles.
- Resourcefulness : Adopts new tools and clever approaches to solve problems and overcome difficulty.
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