The Motley Fool is looking for a Senior Contract Fullstack Developer with expert-level chops in React, NextJs, TypeScript, and Tailwind to join our team on a contract basis for at least 6-12 months.

Who are we?

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial services company on a mission to make the world smarter, happier, and richer. For 30 years we’ve been helping people make better investment decisions through transparency, education, and Foolish fun. We’re a fast-moving, collaborative team that values high-quality work, curiosity, and initiative. We care deeply about what we do, and we’re driven by the impact our work has on real people’s financial futures.

What does this team do?

Market Tech Developers are helping to evolve and upgrade our internal infrastructure that helps serve our 600k paying subscribers, and the millions of people that visit our public facing site each year. This person will collaborate with team members, product owners and professionals across the Motley Fool.

What will this person do in this role?

The Motley Fool US membership serves over 600k paying subscribers to help make them smarter, happier and richer. Over the past 15 months we have drastically upgraded our technological capabilities to enhance our offerings. This position is for the person that enjoys working with the latest tech and building amazing products.

We believe in providing the tools and support needed for our technology practitioners to be as successful and impactful as possible. From a tooling standpoint, we use Claude, Github CoPilot, Chat GPT, and Cursor.sh. If there is a tool we don’t already have available, we have teams that can investigate additional tools. The Senior Market Tech Developer will be evolving our marketing-related systems and tools using React and NextJS. The Motley Fool is a place where you can do your best work surrounded by people who enthusiastically support your success.

Okay, but what will you actually do in this role?

Design, develop, and maintain systems using React, NextJS, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
Integrate with content management systems, e-commerce platforms, in-house systems, and third-party vendors.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
Optimize web applications for performance including rendering strategies, caching, parallel processing, and asset management.
Ensure compliance with web accessibility standards to deliver inclusive user experiences.
Be part of an on-call rotation to handle critical system issues.

Required Skills and Experience (In order of importance)

Strong experience with React, NextJs, TypeScript, and Tailwind
Proficiency in determining the right rendering strategies for Next.JS
Solid grasp of web performance optimization (caching, asset bundling, etc.)
Experienced with workflows that span brand new, existing, and returning customers
Must be able to work in a collaborative team-based environment
Solid understanding of RESTful APIs
Experience with Docker, containerization, and CICD pipelines for NextJS applications
Understanding of accessibility standards
Understanding of user behavior tracking and metrics
Experience with A/B testing frameworks

Nice to Have Skills

Familiarity with Sanity CMS
Familiarity with Stripe
Knowledge of Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics implementation
Experience with system monitoring and error reporting tools such as DataDog and Sentry