Contractor: Senior Backend Software Engineering Services at Newsela

The company is seeking a Contractor for Senior Backend Software Engineering Services. The contractor will provide back-end engineering services for content APIs and content engineering teams. They will maintain content licensing, provisioning, and visibility technologies. The role involves expanding and governing content and metadata APIs, maintaining back-end data stores, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• Back-end engineering for content APIs
• Maintaining content licensing and provisioning
• Expanding and governing content and metadata APIs
• Maintaining back-end data stores
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend experience in software development
• Experience working in a SaaS environment
• Intermediate experience in Python
• Experience building REST APIs
• Understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Ability to optimize data models and queries

Role offers:

• Opportunity to work collaboratively
• Opportunity to improve code through reviews and feedback