Senior Web Developer

Job Title:
Senior Web Developer

Reporting Structure:
Part-time contract, 30-40 hours/month, reporting to VP Communications and Societal Engagement

Salary Range:
$80-$110/hour Commensurate with experience

Job Scope:
The person will be responsible for the ongoing development, optimization, and technical support of Genome BC websites. This role requires an experienced developer who can work independently and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal oversight.

The successful candidate will collaborate with internal stakeholders and third-party vendors to support digital marketing, events, analytics, and content initiatives while ensuring site performance, security, and scalability.

Genome BC is seeking either a senior solo contractor or a small boutique agency with a clearly identified technical lead. This role is intended to be a long term, collaborative, retainer-based relationship rather than a short-term project engagement.

This role is primarily focused on the ongoing technical stewardship of Genome BC’s websites, including maintenance, optimization and incremental improvements. Periodic feature development and structural enhancements are expected; however, a full site rebuild is not anticipated in the near term.

The engagement will be structured as an ongoing monthly retainer, with an agreed allocation of hours and defined service level expectations. These include a timely response to critical site issues, prioritized handling of high-impact problems and a predictable turnaround time for routine support and enhancements.

Detailed service levels, escalation paths and response times will be defined collaboratively during onboarding.

• Serve as the primary technical leader of Genome BC’s websites, ensuring stability, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to translate functional requirements into practical technical solutions
• Proactively identify risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement across the site ecosystem.
• Manage and prioritize work within an agreed retainer structure, balancing responsiveness with planned improvements
• Coordinate as needed with third-party vendors and service providers to support digital marketing, events, analytics and content initiatives
• Ensure changes are implemented in a controlled manner, with appropriate documentation for custom or non-standard functionality to support continuity and long-term maintainability

• Response: within four business hours
• Resolution: best effort, same or next business day
• High priority (Web summary script is broken, Navigation redirects Broken, major layout issues such as missing pages, broken links)
• Response: within one business day
• Standard requests (content support, small enhancements, bug fixes)
• Response: within 2–3 business days, scheduled into retainer hours

• The successful candidate will serve as the primary technical lead for Genome BC’s websites, leading the execution of day-to-day development, maintenance and support activities
• Genome BC will set strategic direction, content priorities and business requirements. The contractor will recommend technical approaches, identify risks and trade-offs and lead implementation in alignment with approved plans
• The role includes responsibility for maintaining the existing Word Press environment, including core updates, theme and plugin maintenance and environment configuration, using appropriate staging, testing and deployment practices
• Significant architectural changes, major integrations, or substantial refactoring efforts will be discussed and approved in advance, including scope, timing and resourcing

This role is expected to exercise professional judgment, communicate proactively and work collaboratively with Genome BC staff and partners.

Genome BC’s websites use a mixed Word Press implementation, combining custom themes, reusable templates, Custom Post Types and Advanced Custom Fields to support structured content and a consistent editing experience.

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