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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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Truth For Life

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