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Weekly Commitment

20 hrs

Compensation Range

$200 - $250 / hr

Company Stage

Other

Industry

IT Consulting

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Remote (ET +/- 6 hrs)
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equity offered
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About Forward

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

About The Work

Keywords: ecommerce, react, node/php

Budget: $200-$250/h

Hours per week: 20

Term: 6 months

Location: Americas only

Working hours: 6 hours overlap with ET

Start date: Late July / Early August

Company stage: Series D

Context

We’re working with a company in the food delivery space that’s looking to scale out a segment of their platform that offers a doordash like experience for enterprise scale food services businesses and their customers.

They are looking for someone to lead this project for them who has prior experience building out custom ecommerce sites and/or platforms (viz. not shopify sites but shopify-like platforms and/or ecomm sites from scratch).

You’d be overseeing a product and engineering team of 8 folks that you’d build in collaboration with us and the client.

Their current platform is a combination of symfony, react, and node apis.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have experience managing similar size teams
  • You have relevant ecommerce experience
  • You have consulting experience

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