Description:

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Argentina or Mexico for Senior Software Engineering Services.
As a Contractor of our growing Technology team, you will help the team deliver high-quality work on time.
You will be a key contributor within a software development team, crafting great software and automated tests to assure the design and quality of your code.
You will own the delivery of features independently and provide thoughtful input that helps with scoping and design for your team.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Content Engineering and temporarily to the CTO.
You will partner closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design to refine ambiguous work items into clearly defined, valuable work items.
The Content Management Systems team owns the content production systems at Newsela, which includes editorial tooling and publishing flows for various content types, as well as content metadata and curricular standards alignments.

Requirements:

You must have 5+ years of full-stack experience in software development and demonstrated success in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) environment.
You should be able to leverage your intermediate experience in Python to effectively build and deploy highly performant REST APIs.
A firm understanding of relational databases and experience in SQL for creating and modifying data models, as well as writing and optimizing queries with scalability and performance in mind, is required.
Some experience in Javascript is also necessary.
You should be excited to work in a collaborative and inclusive environment that supports continued improvement through code reviews and feedback.
You will be measured by your technical expertise and involvement in scoping and preparing for delivery via groomed user stories, as well as execution of individual contributor tasks, including architectural patterns and adherence, high-quality code and tests written, PR review cycle, QA findings, completing sprint commitments, identifying missing requirements, adherence to accessibility standards, and non-bias terminology in code.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.