Engineer

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Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Keywords: Php

Budget: $30/hour

Hours per week: 2-5

Term: 18 months

Geographic Constraints: Latam based candidates preferred

Timezone Constraints: 5 hours overlap with ET

Timeline: Immediate

Company Stage: Series B

Context:

We’re working with a large a company that serves commercial property owners in major cities. They’ve recently acquired a number of samlle companies that have built products serving users in this space. One of these products is a legacy php application that will need to be maintained for approximately 1.5 years before the parent company is able to sunset it. We’re looking for someone who can maintain the application during that period of time.

Ideally in addition to being able to commit to a long term maintenance contract it’d be great if you could be present for 20h/week for the first 8 weeks of the contract to come up to speed on the application and creating some documentation around what’s there.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have php experience
  • You have experience working with U.S. based companies
  • You have 8+ years experience

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