Job Description
Job Description Overview Of Role:
- Location: Lemont, IL
- Schedule: Remote
- Hours: Part-time, approximately 24 hours/week
- Pay Rate: $43-45/hour
- Contract Length: Minimum 1-year contract with long-term potential
- Benefits: BCBS Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage available
This role will focus on improving and maintaining internal web-based applications and operational systems that support technical teams, researchers, and end users. The ideal candidate will have strong back-end development experience combined with front-end/UI exposure and experience working within Linux-based web environments.
The individual will collaborate closely with technical leadership, internal stakeholders, and end users to modernize applications, implement enhancements, troubleshoot issues, and improve overall system functionality and usability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review, refactor, and modernize existing applications and codebases
- Develop and implement new features and functionality within enterprise web applications
- Troubleshoot, identify, and resolve application and system issues
- Support ongoing enhancement and stabilization efforts across multiple internal systems
- Create and maintain technical documentation, process documentation, and user instructions
- Design and improve user interfaces and overall user experience
- Develop wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user flows where needed
- Collaborate with leadership, engineering teams, and end users to prioritize development tasks
- Incorporate user feedback and usability findings into system enhancements
- Support Linux-based web server infrastructure and maintenance processes
- Maintain development standards using revision control and documented deployment practices
Required Qualifications:
- Strong experience with PHP (current and legacy versions)
- Strong experience with MySQL/MariaDB
- Strong front-end skills with HTML, CSS/SASS, and JavaScript
- Experience with Git, SVN, or similar revision control systems
- Familiarity with CakePHP MVC framework is highly preferred
- Experience working with Oracle, MSSQL, and LDAP authentication environments
- Understanding of UX/UI design principles and usability best practices
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity
Meet Your Recruiter Erik Butzen
Technical Recruiter Erik Butzen is a skilled and compassionate Senior Recruiter passionate about empowering individuals to advance in their careers. With two years of dedicated service at Sterling, Erik has already significantly impacted the organization's talent acquisition efforts.
Having honed his expertise over five years in the field of recruiting, Erik possesses a deep understanding of the industry's intricacies. His journey began with the desire to assist individuals in finding opportunities that would propel their professional growth forward.
As a Senior Recruiter, Erik takes great pride in his ability to help people make meaningful advancements in their careers. Whether it's guiding a candidate through the interview process, providing valuable insights into the job market, or matching the right talent with the perfect role, Erik is committed to positively impacting the lives of those he interacts with.
One of Erik's most valuable pieces of advice to both hiring managers and fellow recruiters is to ask a lot of questions. Understanding the needs and expectations of both candidates and employers is essential to finding the best fit for both parties.
- 630-310-6963
- ebutzen@sterling-engineering.com
- Connect on LinkedIn
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
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Job Tags
Contract work, Remote work