Join Our Mission
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Are you passionate about using your technical skills to make a global impact?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Collaboration: You’ll work closely with our frontend developers, designers, and content creators to create seamless user experiences.
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Continuous Learning: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices to ensure our systems are cutting-edge and efficient.
Mission
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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
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Consistently deliver Truth For Life content to digital channels to maximize distribution.
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Expand Truth For Life website features and functionality.
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Coordinate as part of a larger team with internal developers and outside developer vendors.
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Serve the Customer Service, Marketing, Stations, Content and IT departments with their digital communication needs.
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Analyze the performance of current digital assets, create plans for improvement, and follow through with development and deployment of approved updates.
Desired Education
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming or a related field and a strong knowledge of computer programming.
Preferred Requirements
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5 years or greater of relevant technical experience or demonstrated success in a Web Development or Application Development role.
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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.
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Experience: 5+ years or shows strong proficiency in developing for the web.
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Experience: 3+ years using Django, Google Analytics.
Competencies
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Passion: Driven to bring Bible teaching to listeners around the world.
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Integrity: Consistent, honorable use of freedom.
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Analysis: Able to make great use of data and feedback to provide meaningful insights and recommendations.
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Organization/Planning: Able to define project scope, manage deadlines, resources, and deliverables for a successful and timely outcome.
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Teamwork: Inspires a positive team culture in which individuals rally behind common goals and genuinely appreciate working with one another.
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Efficiency: Committed to high quality, high producing, lean operations.
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Independence: Able to manage multiple tasks and effectively meet deadlines and help others along the same lines.
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Adaptability: Easily adjusts to new conditions on the fly and welcomes challenges as opportunities. Likes to create and maintain agile-like processes and workflow.
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Assertiveness: Proactively offers suggestions, opinions, and openly asks questions.
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Tenacity: Highly persistent in maintaining or seeking to meet goals/objectives, determined to overcome obstacles.
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Resourcefulness: Adopts new tools and clever approaches to solve problems and overcome difficulty.