Senior Developer Full- Stack (Freelance)

Instrument is a digital product and brand experience agency of more than 200 talented people on a four different teams, each focused on a core offering and dedicated to producing best-in-class work. With a shift to a hybrid working model, we believe in both remote work's potential and recognize the value of in-person interactions for building relationships, sparking creativity, and engaging clients Continuing to allow for remote work has only strengthened and diversified our company culture, and we’re committed to career advancement, personal support, and a healthy work/life balance for everyone we hire. You’re an experienced backend developer with experience writing Python using Django and Wagtail CMS, who can architect and execute on medium to large scale applications. You know how to write backend models and business logic to support a frontend with features such as pagination, searching and filtering, and caching. You are detail oriented and comfortable working through complex content manipulation challenges and iteratively sharing results. You are familiar with component driven design systems and creating a CMS to support them. We need someone ASAP-10/25, 20 hrs/week What You'll Do: • Work on a content migration process to import content and assets from a large legacy website into a new, component-based system • Work on implementing features in our headless Wagtail backend to support our component-based frontend • Clearly communicate with your product manager and team throughout project • Engage and consult with stakeholders • Work collaboratively and proactively in a multidisciplinary team environment • Document and diagram systems and processes • Do great work and be great to work with What You'll Bring: • Experienced back-end developer, fluent in Python, Django, and Wagtail • Experience with content import processes and a detail-oriented, methodical approach • Ability to write component models within a Django and Wagtail environment • Ability to design and write APIs • Experience working with Azure App Service is a plus • Experience with MySQL and Rails (the legacy system we’re importing from) is a plus • Ability to document systems & solutions • Positive, supportive attitude to remove roadblocks rather than create them • Collaboration, flexibility, humility, confidence Apply Job!