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Web Developer

Hedge Fund Alpha|Posted 2 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Full stack engineer
Experience in role:5+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    WordPress
    PHP
    JavaScript
Nice-to-have skills:
    MySQL
    Python
    Google Analytics
    Google Tag Manager
    Artificial Intelligence
    Data Science Modelling

Location and salary

Remote policy:Remote
Location of job:Anywhere
Visa requirements:No specific requirements
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent
Salary range:R7,500 - R70,000 per month

Role description

We're seeking a reliable web developer to join our small, established financial information company. You'll play a crucial role in maintaining and optimizing our WordPress-based site, managing databases, and ensuring smooth operations. Your expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and WordPress will be essential as you troubleshoot issues, deploy databases, and create custom solutions.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on diverse tasks, from resolving Google Search Console issues to automating workflows and advising on site improvements. We value reliability, honesty, and strong coding skills. In return, we offer flexible hours (5-30 per week), competitive pay, and the potential to grow into a full-time CTO role as we scale.

We're looking for a long-term partner who can commit to at least 5-10 hours weekly for the next few years. While we're open to AI assistance, we expect thorough code review and understanding. Join our warm, small company where your skills and reliability will be truly appreciated.

About Hedge Fund Alpha

1-15 employees

What we do

Hedge Fund Alpha is a premier hedge fund intelligence data and information service, specializing in investment research and analytics. We have been in business since 2011!

Why work for us

• Flexible hours (5–30 per week - to be discussed further based on your schedule, pricing and skill set). Additionally we expect some EST hours but you can mainly work on your time-zone/schedule • Competitive, negotiable pay based on experience and reliability • Opportunity to grow into a full-time role as we scale and become CTO • Work for a warm, small company where honesty, courtesy and reliability are respected

Our culture

We have a nice collaborative culture - a lot of our employees have worked for us for many years - ie our editor in chief has been with us since 2012, and our content manager since 2013. We are looking for people who want to be on long term

Our engineering process

This is a work in progress but we will discuss project or fix, go over details, mock up prototype and then work on the project. Once done it will be dfeployed on staging site and if no issues we will deply it live - we will be logging all changes in Github to keep track of any issues caused by plugin updaters, customizations etc

Our hiring process

Our hiring process is simple. If we think you are a good fit we will setup a call and discuss. If it sounds like a good idea for both sides we will give you a paid test. If you perform the test well we will setup a second call to discuss final details. Then we will send letter with those details and you are onbboarded.

Perks at Hedge Fund Alpha

Flexible Hours
Regular increases
Opportunity to get promoted

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Javascript
Javascript
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
HTML5
HTML5

utilities

Amazon SES
Amazon SES
Google Analytics
Google Analytics

dev ops

GitHub
GitHub
Git
Git
Selenium
Selenium
npm
npm
VS Code
VS Code

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Office photo

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