• Freelance
  • Anywhere (Remote)
  • $30 - $60 USD / Hour
  • 1 March 2025

Website The Future of Life Institute

Steering transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks.

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is contracting a part-time Website Developer & Editor to lead the development and maintenance of the FLI website and a few other FLI-owned websites.

Overview:

  • Part-time, freelance position
  • Language: English
  • Location: Anywhere (Remote)
  • Salary: $30 – $60 per hour
  • Applications closing: 1st March

Job Description

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is contracting a part-time Website Developer & Editor to lead the development and maintenance of the FLI website and a few other FLI-owned websites. This person will report directly to Taylor Jones, FLI’s Design and Web Manager.

Responsibilities

As Website Developer & Editor, you will:

  • Maintain the FLI website, plus a few other campaign-specific websites.
  • Prioritise, plan, and implement new features based on team and user feedback.
  • Prepare and publish content using the WordPress CMS (blog posts, profiles, pages).

Role Requirements

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience building and managing WordPress websites (with extra credit for candidates who have experience with our particular stack of plugins: Oxygen Builder, Metabox, WS Form, Wordfence).
  • Familiarity with CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS (our site uses AutomaticCSS).
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.
  • An understanding of the entire web development process, including design, development, and deployment.
  • Some web design skills, and an ability to design and build webpages from scratch with only a simple brief, without detailed wireframes.
  • Some degree of familiarity with Figma or similar visual prototyping tools.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Excited by the prospect of joining a small but influential team looking to improve humanity’s future.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience using a ticket-management system like Jira, Notion, Github.
  • Experience operating user feedback tools such as Ahrefs, HotJar, SEMrush.
  • Experience producing reports using Google Analytics.
  • Experience with back-end development (NGINX, MySQL).
  • Experience with Photoshop or other photo editors.

How to apply?

Please apply by uploading your resume and optional portfolio through this form.
Though a portfolio is highly preferred, if you do not have a portfolio then we will also accept a cover letter. Alongside these documents, please also complete the application questions below.

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