Back End (Python & Django) Web Developer - Truth For Life

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.