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Build and maintain frontend components and CMS content for a high-traffic order page platform with focus on performance and conversion. | Expert-level React, TypeScript, Next.js, CMS experience, testing, CI/CD, and remote work capability. | 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? The Market Tech team owns the order page platform, the core acquisition surface that drives new member subscriptions and existing member upgrades across The Motley Fool's product portfolio. It's high-stakes, high-visibility work: the experiences this team ships directly influence how people become Fools. The team moves fast, sweats the details, and takes conversion seriously without losing sight of the craft. What would you do in this role? As a Frontend Engineer contractor, you'll be a core contributor to the order page platform: building components, expanding CMS capabilities, and making sure critical purchase paths are reliable, performant, and conversion-optimized. You'll work closely with marketing, product, and engineering in a modern Next.js/React codebase backed by Sanity CMS. More specifically, you would: • Build and maintain components for our Sanity-based order page application • Implement new content types and schemas in Sanity Studio to give marketers self-service control over order page content • Write and maintain end-to-end tests (Playwright or similar) covering critical purchase paths • Contribute to URL structure, routing, and general application architecture improvements • Collaborate with a small, focused engineering team via Zoom, Jira, and Slack • Help explore what's possible when marketers can generate and A/B test order page content through AI tools What we're looking for • You're expert-level in React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Next.js, including App Router, server components, and server actions • You've built applications using a headless CMS; Sanity experience is a strong plus • You can write and maintain end-to-end tests and take ownership of critical purchase path coverage • You have experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines for Next.js applications • You're comfortable working independently in a remote contractor capacity: proactive, communicative, and low-maintenance in the best way • You use AI tools (like Claude Code and multi-agent workflows) daily to assist with planning and implementation, thoughtfully, not blindly • You have a solid handle on web performance optimization: caching, asset bundling, and the like • Your communication habits are clean: daily stand-up attendance, timely Slack responses, Jira ticket updates, and proactive status updates • You have experience with A/B testing frameworks and an eye for conversion-focused UI/UX • You're familiar with system monitoring and error reporting tools like Datadog and Sentry • You review code well, can participate in an on-call rotation, and stay steady when requirements shift • You balance business goals against engineering preferences without losing sight of either • Bonus points: experience with OneTrust or other consent management platforms, or familiarity with Stripe-integrated purchase flows Why this role is exciting This is a contractor engagement with real ongoing work for the right person. You'll have meaningful ownership over a high-traffic, revenue-critical platform at a company that's been helping investors for 30 years. If you want to ship work that matters, collaborate with a team that respects the craft, and explore what AI-assisted engineering actually looks like in practice, this one's worth a look. Compensation: Below is our target compensation range. While we are budget conscious, we’re also eager to find the right person for this role, so if your target is outside of this range, please don’t hesitate to apply and we’d be happy to have a conversation. Hourly Pay Range: $95 USD - $105 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Build and maintain order page components, implement CMS schemas, write end-to-end tests, and collaborate with marketing and product teams. | Expertise in React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Next.js, headless CMS, containerization, AI tools, and web performance optimization required. | 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? The Market Tech team owns the order page platform, the core acquisition surface that drives new member subscriptions and existing member upgrades across The Motley Fool's product portfolio. It's high-stakes, high-visibility work: the experiences this team ships directly influence how people become Fools. The team moves fast, sweats the details, and takes conversion seriously without losing sight of the craft. What would you do in this role? As a Frontend Engineer contractor, you'll be a core contributor to the order page platform: building components, expanding CMS capabilities, and making sure critical purchase paths are reliable, performant, and conversion-optimized. You'll work closely with marketing, product, and engineering in a modern Next.js/React codebase backed by Sanity CMS. More specifically, you would: Build and maintain components for our Sanity-based order page application Implement new content types and schemas in Sanity Studio to give marketers self-service control over order page content Write and maintain end-to-end tests (Playwright or similar) covering critical purchase paths Contribute to URL structure, routing, and general application architecture improvements Collaborate with a small, focused engineering team via Zoom, Jira, and Slack Help explore what's possible when marketers can generate and A/B test order page content through AI tools What we're looking for You're expert-level in React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Next.js, including App Router, server components, and server actions You've built applications using a headless CMS; Sanity experience is a strong plus You can write and maintain end-to-end tests and take ownership of critical purchase path coverage You have experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines for Next.js applications You're comfortable working independently in a remote contractor capacity: proactive, communicative, and low-maintenance in the best way You use AI tools (like Claude Code and multi-agent workflows) daily to assist with planning and implementation, thoughtfully, not blindly You have a solid handle on web performance optimization: caching, asset bundling, and the like Your communication habits are clean: daily stand-up attendance, timely Slack responses, Jira ticket updates, and proactive status updates You have experience with A/B testing frameworks and an eye for conversion-focused UI/UX You're familiar with system monitoring and error reporting tools like Datadog and Sentry You review code well, can participate in an on-call rotation, and stay steady when requirements shift You balance business goals against engineering preferences without losing sight of either Bonus points: experience with OneTrust or other consent management platforms, or familiarity with Stripe-integrated purchase flows Why this role is exciting This is a contractor engagement with real ongoing work for the right person. You'll have meaningful ownership over a high-traffic, revenue-critical platform at a company that's been helping investors for 30 years. If you want to ship work that matters, collaborate with a team that respects the craft, and explore what AI-assisted engineering actually looks like in practice, this one's worth a look. Compensation: Below is our target compensation range. While we are budget conscious, we’re also eager to find the right person for this role, so if your target is outside of this range, please don’t hesitate to apply and we’d be happy to have a conversation. Hourly Pay Range $95—$105 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Lead engineering for Fool.com and Motley Fool Money, balancing coding and leadership to set technical direction and ensure reliability. | 7+ years engineering with 2+ years senior/lead, Python/Django fluency, Next.js, AWS, mentoring, and AI integration experience required. | 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? The Fool.com and Motley Fool Money team is at the center of how millions of investors find, read, and engage with The Motley Fool. These are two of our highest-visibility platforms—a content-rich flagship site and a fast-growing personal finance brand—and the engineers who support them are directly shaping the experience of the people we exist to serve. The team moves fast, ships real things, and takes pride in code that holds up under pressure. What would you do in this role? As Tech Lead, you're the engineering anchor for both platforms, the person who sets technical direction, keeps production healthy, and makes the engineers around you better. You won't be choosing between writing code and leading people; you'll be doing both, week in and week out. More specifically, you would: Own the technical direction for Fool.com and Motley Fool Money, keeping product velocity and long-term code health in honest balance Stay hands-on: writing code, reviewing PRs, and pairing with your team daily Mentor and grow your direct reports through 1:1s, technical coaching, and real career development conversations Own production reliability for both platforms: incident response, observability, and continuous improvement of monitoring and alerting Partner with product, design, marketing, and business unit leadership to translate business goals into technical strategy Drive AI integration thoughtfully, both in production features and in how the team builds software Maintain and evolve the engineering standards, deployment processes, and tooling that keep the team shipping confidently Collaborate across business units to align technical decisions with broader company direction The rough shape of your week: 25% hands-on coding and code review, 25% technical leadership and system design, 25% people leadership, 25% cross-functional collaboration and incident response. That split will shift. Some weeks are deep in code, others in planning or production support. Comfort with that variability is part of the job. What we're looking for You've got 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a tech lead or senior+ capacity You're fluent in Python and have real production experience in Django. Wagtail experience is a plus. You can navigate and contribute to a Next.js codebase; you don't need to be a JS specialist, but front-end shouldn't be a black box to you You have a deep, practical understanding of the HTTP request/response cycle, REST API design, and how web applications work end-to-end You've worked with AWS services and modern observability tooling (Datadog, Sentry, or equivalents) in production You have a track record of mentoring and growing engineers—not just technically, but as people You've integrated AI/LLM capabilities into production applications, or you're someone who's clearly been building toward it Bonus points: experience leading high-traffic consumer web platforms, familiarity with content-driven sites and editorial workflows, and comfort with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and modern testing approaches (Playwright or similar) Why this role is exciting This is a rare opportunity to lead two of The Motley Fool's most important digital platforms at a moment when the company is actively investing in AI, modernizing its stack, and building for the next chapter. You'll have real technical ownership, a team worth showing up for, and the backing of an organization that's serious about both the engineering and the mission. If you want to write code you're proud of and shape something that matters, this is the role for you. Please note, no sponsorship is available for this position. You must reside in, or be willing to relocate to, one of these states for employment: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin. Flexible, remote work environment (see our open states above) No "vacation policy" (not to be confused with a "No vacation" policy) Generous fully-paid parental leave $1,000 annually to invest in stocks of your choice Super low premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity Annual Pay Range $200,000—$230,000 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Lead technical direction, maintain production health, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally for Fool.com and Motley Fool Money platforms. | 7+ years software engineering with 2+ years in senior/lead role, Python/Django experience, frontend familiarity, AWS and observability tooling experience, mentoring skills, and AI integration experience. | 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? The Fool.com and Motley Fool Money team is at the center of how millions of investors find, read, and engage with The Motley Fool. These are two of our highest-visibility platforms—a content-rich flagship site and a fast-growing personal finance brand—and the engineers who support them are directly shaping the experience of the people we exist to serve. The team moves fast, ships real things, and takes pride in code that holds up under pressure. What would you do in this role? As Tech Lead, you're the engineering anchor for both platforms, the person who sets technical direction, keeps production healthy, and makes the engineers around you better. You won't be choosing between writing code and leading people; you'll be doing both, week in and week out. More specifically, you would: • Own the technical direction for Fool.com and Motley Fool Money, keeping product velocity and long-term code health in honest balance • Stay hands-on: writing code, reviewing PRs, and pairing with your team daily • Mentor and grow your direct reports through 1:1s, technical coaching, and real career development conversations • Own production reliability for both platforms: incident response, observability, and continuous improvement of monitoring and alerting • Partner with product, design, marketing, and business unit leadership to translate business goals into technical strategy • Drive AI integration thoughtfully, both in production features and in how the team builds software • Maintain and evolve the engineering standards, deployment processes, and tooling that keep the team shipping confidently • Collaborate across business units to align technical decisions with broader company direction The rough shape of your week: 25% hands-on coding and code review, 25% technical leadership and system design, 25% people leadership, 25% cross-functional collaboration and incident response. That split will shift. Some weeks are deep in code, others in planning or production support. Comfort with that variability is part of the job. What we're looking for • You've got 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a tech lead or senior+ capacity • You're fluent in Python and have real production experience in Django. Wagtail experience is a plus. • You can navigate and contribute to a Next.js codebase; you don't need to be a JS specialist, but front-end shouldn't be a black box to you • You have a deep, practical understanding of the HTTP request/response cycle, REST API design, and how web applications work end-to-end • You've worked with AWS services and modern observability tooling (Datadog, Sentry, or equivalents) in production • You have a track record of mentoring and growing engineers—not just technically, but as people • You've integrated AI/LLM capabilities into production applications, or you're someone who's clearly been building toward it • Bonus points: experience leading high-traffic consumer web platforms, familiarity with content-driven sites and editorial workflows, and comfort with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and modern testing approaches (Playwright or similar) Why this role is exciting This is a rare opportunity to lead two of The Motley Fool's most important digital platforms at a moment when the company is actively investing in AI, modernizing its stack, and building for the next chapter. You'll have real technical ownership, a team worth showing up for, and the backing of an organization that's serious about both the engineering and the mission. If you want to write code you're proud of and shape something that matters, this is the role for you. Please note, no sponsorship is available for this position. You must reside in, or be willing to relocate to, one of these states for employment: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin. • Flexible, remote work environment (see our open states above) • No "vacation policy" (not to be confused with a "No vacation" policy) • Generous fully-paid parental leave • $1,000 annually to invest in stocks of your choice • Super low premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage • Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity Annual Pay Range: $200,000 USD - $230,000 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Develop and maintain high-performance web applications using React, Next.js, and Python while collaborating with design and product teams. | Requires 5+ years in scalable web development with TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS, AI-driven automation, and advanced state management. | 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 a healthy dose of 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? Join a high-performance development team delivering web applications to millions of users monthly in the fintech and media space. We value innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. We are a remote workforce that uses Slack, Zoom, Jira, and agile development practices to keep in sync. What would you do in this role? As a Senior Software Developer, you’ll be working on a fast paced team responsible for the code that powers our ultimate goal of helping people invest and be smarter, happier and richer. Successful Fools have well-formed opinions (stemming from their broad experience) and the ability to jump right into code independently. But what does this role actually do? Develop and maintain web applications using a variety of technologies, including but not limited to React, Next.js, TypeScript, TailwindCSS and occasionally Python. Collaborate with other team members on best practices for efficient and sustainable engineering, focusing on achieving a balance between aesthetics, scalability, and performance. Provide and receive technical feedback through pair programming and code reviews. Collaborate closely with design, product, and leadership teams to anticipate future needs and align our technology roadmap with long-term goals. What do you need to apply? 5+ years of developing highly performant and scalable web applications Proficiency with agentic workflows and AI-driven automation High level of proficiency in React, Next.js, Typescript, GraphQL and REST APIs Understanding of backend development using Python Experience with AWS Experience working with sophisticated application state, e.g. Apollo Client, Redux Experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines for Python applications Proven track record in high-performance teams Excellent problem-solving and communication skills Familiarity with security best practices in web development Compensation: Below is our target compensation range. While we are budget conscious, we’re also eager to find the right person for this role, so if your target is outside of this range, please don’t hesitate to apply and we’d be happy to have a conversation. Hourly Pay Range $95—$110 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Design and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and Snowflake data warehouse to automate investment data workflows. | 5+ years Python development, Snowflake expertise, Terraform/AWS CDK experience, and ETL orchestration skills required. | 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 a healthy dose of 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? We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and take full ownership of the data infrastructure powering our investment operations. You will own the complete data lifecycle, spanning ingestion, transformation, warehousing, analytics, and machine learning, serving as the connective tissue between raw data and the decisions that depend on it. If something breaks, you fix it. If a stakeholder needs data, you find it or build it. The Investment Committee and business partners rely on you to ensure they always have trustworthy, timely data in hand. You will architect ETL/ELT pipelines orchestrated by Apache Airflow (AWS MWAA), build and tune a Snowflake data warehouse fed by S3 data lakes, and develop the analytical models and dashboards that turn raw data into actionable intelligence. You will also play a key role in introducing machine learning capabilities to enhance forecasting, anomaly detection, and portfolio analytics. What Will You Do in This Role? You will help lead the transformation of our data infrastructure, moving the team from manual processes and spreadsheet-based workflows into scalable, governed, automated data systems. This role sits at the center of investment operations, analytics, reporting, and emerging AI initiatives. What Strategic Initiatives You Will Drive? The “Golden Source” Transformation: Migrating data reliance from spreadsheets and manual processes into a governed Snowflake warehouse with documented lineage, quality checks, and self-service analytics. Automated Ingestion Pipelines: Replacing manual file drops with event-driven Airflow DAGs and AWS Lambda functions that ingest, validate, and transform data from external vendors and internal systems in near real-time. Infrastructure as Code: Defining all cloud infrastructure with Terraform or AWS CDK so that development, staging, and production environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable. Data-Powered AI Initiatives: Establishing the data foundations that enable AI across the business: clean, governed, and accessible datasets that feed AI agents, natural-language interfaces, and intelligent automation. Machine learning techniques such as anomaly detection, classification, and forecasting will augment these initiatives where appropriate. Automate how we tell our story with data: Build reusable templates and automation frameworks to close the loop between our database and the materials our team uses to win and retain business. That means pulling live data into branded one-pagers, generating narrative-driven slide decks, websites, populating email campaigns, and producing social-ready content. Okay, but what will you actually do in this role? Data Engineering & ETL — 35% Pipeline Design & Orchestration: Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Apache Airflow (MWAA). Author DAGs that handle complex dependencies across external data vendors, internal models, and downstream consumers. Data Integration: Ingest data from diverse sources including SFTP feeds, REST APIs, flat files, and third-party financial data providers. Normalize and conform data into a consistent analytical model. Data Quality & Monitoring: Build “circuit breakers” into pipelines: automated data quality checks that halt downstream processing and alert the team via CloudWatch and Slack when anomalies are detected. Serverless Processing: Implement AWS Lambda functions for lightweight, event-driven tasks such as triggering ingestion when files land in S3 or validating data payloads before loading. Documentation: Maintain and document the data catalog so institutional knowledge lives in the system, not in your head. Snowflake Data Warehouse & SQL — 35% Warehouse Architecture: Serve as the subject-matter expert for Snowflake. Design schemas, manage data loading via Stages and Snowpipe, and implement role-based access controls. Complex SQL Development: Write advanced analytical SQL: window functions, CTEs, recursive queries, pivots; to support investment reporting, performance attribution, and ad-hoc analysis. Query Tuning & Optimization: Profile and optimize slow-running queries. Leverage clustering keys, micro-partition pruning, materialized views, and result caching to minimize compute cost and maximize performance. Cloud Infrastructure & CI/CD — 10% Infrastructure as Code: Define and deploy cloud resources using Terraform or AWS CDK. Treat infrastructure as software with version control, peer review, and automated testing. CI/CD Pipelines: Help design and maintain CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions for automated testing, linting, and deployment of data pipelines, infrastructure, and application code. Analytics, Reporting & AI — 20% Analytical Modeling: Partner with investment and business teams to translate questions into data models, dashboards, and reports that drive strategic decisions using Tableau. Analytics Presentation: Design and build automated pipelines that pull data from source systems and render it into production-ready marketing outputs: one-pagers, pitch decks, email campaigns, and social content. AI Integration: Be a resource for software engineers to build an AI layer on top of existing data infrastructure, enabling LLMs to securely query fund performance data via APIs and answer natural-language questions for internal stakeholders. Required Experience and Skills: Python Mastery: 5+ years of professional Python development. Comfortable with object-oriented design, data manipulation libraries (pandas, NumPy). Familiarity with financial research data vendors and feed/API products such as CapIQ Xpressfeed, FactSet, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv/LSEG, Russell or MSCI. Familiarity with financial business data and feed/API products from Broadridge, Morningstar and custodian banks and fund administrators. ETL & Orchestration: Proven experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines. Apache Airflow and Lambda experience is a plus. Snowflake & Advanced SQL: Deep expertise in Snowflake architecture (clustering keys, micro-partitions, Snowpipe, Stages). Able to write complex analytical SQL, window functions, CTEs, recursive queries, and optimize them for cost and performance. Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with AWS CDK or Terraform. You define infrastructure in code, not in the AWS Console. Exposure to LLM integration patterns: markdown files and prompt engineering. Experience with RAG, knowledge bases, and embeddings is a plus. Nice-to-Have/Pluses: Cloud Fluency (AWS): Working knowledge of the AWS ecosystem: Lambda, ECS Fargate, Step Functions, S3, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and RDS. Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Streamlit, or similar) for self-service analytics. Background in data governance, data cataloging, or data lineage tooling. CI/CD Experience: Demonstrated experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment of data engineering and application code using Github actions and Terraform. SQL & Database Tuning: Experience profiling and optimizing queries across both OLAP (Snowflake) and OLTP (PostgreSQL/Aurora) systems. Familiarity with EXPLAIN plans, indexing strategies, and database-level performance tuning. Machine Learning Fundamentals: Practical experience building, evaluating, and deploying ML models. Familiarity with common frameworks (scikit-learn, XGBoost) and an understanding of when and how to apply ML to business problems. Compensation: Below is our target compensation range. While we are budget conscious, we’re also eager to find the right person for this role, so if your target is outside of this range, please don’t hesitate to apply and we’d be happy to have a conversation. Hourly Pay Range $90—$125 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Own server-side and infrastructure layers focusing on API integrations, caching, SEO rendering, and performance. | 5+ years professional experience with TypeScript, Next.js, server-side environments, SEO, CDN caching, and API integration safety. | Who We Are 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 a healthy dose of 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. With a growing portfolio of 50+ subscription products, we're investing heavily in the technology that powers Fool.com — one of the most widely read financial sites on the web — and the systems that turn readers into long-term members. What Does This Team Do? The Fool.com team owns the public-facing experience that millions of readers, search engine crawlers, and prospective subscribers hit every day. Today, the team is strong on the client side: we have two excellent front-end engineers shipping interface work. We're looking for an engineer who can own the server-side and infrastructure layer of the site alongside them. About the Role This is a full-stack role with a clear weighting toward the parts of the system that run before pixels reach the browser — API integrations, server-rendered routes, caching, observability, deployment, and the SEO-critical surface that determines how millions of crawler requests resolve. Much of fool.com is server side rendered. What You'll Do Build and maintain server-side features in our Next.js App Router codebase using TypeScript — route handlers, server components, server actions, streaming, ISR, and revalidation strategy. Design and harden integrations with the third-party APIs that power our content, market data, and subscription experiences. We care a lot about doing this well: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, fallbacks, and graceful degradation when upstream services misbehave are first-class concerns, not afterthoughts. Own caching strategy across Redis and Cloudflare, balancing freshness against performance, cost, and crawler behavior. Deploy and operate services on AWS using Docker, with first-class instrumentation in DataDog so we catch issues before our readers and crawlers do. Write meaningful end-to-end coverage with Microsoft Playwright for the flows that matter most. Optimize the site for the way it's actually consumed by SEO crawlers: rendering strategy, structured data, sitemap generation, canonicalization, hreflang, robots directives, performance budgets, and crawl budget management. Partner with our front-end engineers on the seam between server and client, and collaborate with content, marketing, SEO, and platform teams across the company. Use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor) as a core part of your daily workflow — we have a company-wide commitment to use the latest tooling and workflows to make every person as impactful as possible. Integrate with our CMS for content management What We're Looking For 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on the server side of a production web application. Strong TypeScript and Next.js experience, including the App Router, server components, route handlers, ISR, and streaming. Demonstrated track record integrating third-party APIs in production, with clear opinions about how to do it safely. You've debugged a flaky upstream at 11pm and you have views about it. Solid grounding in caching (Redis or equivalent) and CDN behavior (Cloudflare or equivalent), including cache invalidation, stale-while-revalidate patterns, and edge vs. origin tradeoffs. Comfort with AWS, Docker, and modern CI/CD workflows. Working knowledge of how SEO crawlers actually see a site: how Googlebot renders JavaScript, what causes soft 404s, how canonical and hreflang tags affect indexing, what Core Web Vitals look like in CrUX vs. lab data, and how to think about crawl budget on a large site. Production observability instincts — you reach for DataDog dashboards, logs, and traces before guessing. Experience writing maintainable end-to-end tests with Playwright, Cypress, or similar. Bonus Points Background on a high-traffic content, media, or publishing site where SEO is a primary acquisition channel. Hands-on work with structured data (JSON-LD, schema.org), automated sitemaps, Search Console, or auditing tools like Screaming Frog. Familiarity with analytics and event pipelines (Segment, PostHog, GTM, or similar). Prior work on subscription, paywall, or e-commerce flows. Genuine interest in financial markets, investing, or fintech — we're a company of people who care about this stuff. Why This Role You'll be the person who makes Fool.com faster, safer, and more observable on the side of the wire that most users never see. You'll work alongside two strong front-end engineers who are eager to have a real partner across the seam, and you'll do it on a team that takes engineering quality seriously — we've recently invested in standardizing error-handling practices around external services, AI-assisted development tooling, and cross-repository coding guidelines. If you like the parts of full-stack engineering that happen behind the scenes — the integrations, the caching layer, the crawler surface, the dashboards at 2am — we'd love to talk. Please note, no sponsorship is available for this position. You must reside in, or be willing to relocate to, one of these states for employment: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin. Below you’ll see a few of our perks, but check out our Careers Site for the complete list: Flexible, remote work environment (*see our open states above) No “vacation policy” (not to be confused with a “No vacation” policy) Generous fully-paid parental leave $1,000 annually to invest in stocks of your choice Super low premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity Annual Pay Range $165,000—$185,000 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. 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Develop and optimize commerce and customer engagement platforms using Python and FastAPI, collaborating on transactional pipelines and migrating legacy services. | 5+ years Python API framework experience, scalable backend development, Stripe billing, containerization, and US East Coast hours availability. | 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 a healthy dose of 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? Our Commerce and Messaging (Customer Engagement) tech team is at the epicenter of The Motley Fool’s subscription business. All revenue transactions, subscription-related events, and marketing, product, and retention communications flow through the systems that this team manages. We have recently modernized our commerce stack to Python, FastAPI, and Stripe, and we are currently migrating our remaining messaging stack from legacy .NET to modern Python, while streamlining our Braze setup. What Will You Do in This Role? The Python Developer plays a critical role in driving our commerce and communication infrastructure forward. You will collaborate closely with other developers, product owners, and business stakeholders to design, build, and optimize critical transactional and messaging pipelines that support our global membership base. Okay, but what will you actually do in this role? Develop new features for our core commerce and customer engagement platforms. Work directly with stakeholders to iterate and get rapid feedback on feature development. Appropriately use AI tools like Claude Code and multi-agent workflows on a daily basis to assist with planning and implementation. Ensure our critical transactional and event systems have high availability, durability, accuracy (since money is on the line), and remain highly performant. Build and enhance admin tooling and workflows that enable our internal business stakeholders to be more self-sufficient. Ensure features meet acceptance criteria and are supported by robust automated test coverage. Integrate with third-party providers and tools (such as Stripe and Braze)—leveraging their existing functionality and working around their limitations. Investigate, troubleshoot, and fix reported bugs and Sentry errors. Collaborate with the Product Owner and Project Manager to break down business requirements into clear technical stories and tasks. Partner with multiple in-house engineering squads and external providers to launch customer-facing solutions. Review peer code and participate in our team’s on-call rotation to maintain system reliability. Support and scale platforms across multiple countries. You Might Be a Good Fit If You: Are deeply curious, love to learn, and enjoy solving complex architectural migration problems (like moving legacy services from .NET to Python). Value high-performance, cross-functional collaboration and enjoy working closely with stakeholders in a consultative manner. Have a keen eye for system accuracy and durability—knowing that millions of revenue-generating transactions depend on your work. Welcome modern development practices, including integrating advanced AI engineering workflows into your daily routine to scale your impact. Take proactive ownership of system health, testing, telemetry, and error monitoring. Required Experience and Skills: 5+ years of experience building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining APIs consumed by multiple systems using Python and a Python-based API framework like FastAPI. Experience building scalable, high-performance backends served to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. Hands-on experience with Stripe billing and payment infrastructure. Strong experience with asynchronous data retrieval and processing in Python. Experience with Docker, containerization, and modern automated CI/CD pipelines. Proficiency in system monitoring, telemetry, and debugging production performance issues. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and translation skills (turning business goals into reliable technical execution). Ability to work US East Coast core hours (spanning the 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST timeframe). Nice-to-Have/Pluses: Experience with Braze (or similar customer engagement platforms), RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, legacy .NET/C# migration, or frontend technologies like Next.js, React, Tailwind, and TypeScript. Compensation: Below is our target compensation range. While we are budget conscious, we’re also eager to find the right person for this role, so if your target is outside of this range, please don’t hesitate to apply and we’d be happy to have a conversation. Hourly Pay Range $90—$110 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Manage day-to-day marketing programs to drive revenue growth using AI and automation. | 5+ years in growth or performance marketing with proficiency in marketing tools and AI automation. | 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? Our Member Marketing team helps grow the business by connecting more members with the products, tools, and experiences that can make them smarter, happier, and richer. We sit at the intersection of growth, experimentation, member insight, and marketing performance. We’re looking for an Always On Marketing Manager to help lead and scale one of our most important ongoing marketing programs. What is “Always On”? “Always On” means maintaining dynamic internal site ads, automated emails, targeted opportunities, and crafting experiences that deliver the right offers to the right members at the right time. This role is pivotal in driving significant revenue growth, with the zone projected to generate millions of dollars in campaign revenue. The right candidate will thrive in a highly entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and collaborative environment, eager to make a tangible impact on our company's growth trajectory. What would you do in this role? This role sits right in the middle of strategy and execution. You’ll be responsible for helping us identify where the biggest opportunities are within Always On—and then actually bringing them to life. We’re looking for someone who’s just as comfortable doing the work as they are shaping where it goes next. Some days that means stepping back and thinking about how we should evolve the channel. Other days it means getting into the weeds—building campaigns, QA’ing ads, and figuring out what’s working (and what’s not). The right person is a marketer first: someone with strong direct-response instincts, a sharp eye for performance, a genuine interest in financial services and investing, and real excitement about using AI and automation to work smarter. More specifically, you would: Own day-to-day Always On marketing across site ads, order pages, automated campaigns, and targeted member experiences. Drive performance across high-volume member touchpoints through testing, targeting, optimization, and iteration. Identify and launch new opportunities, including new ad formats, video placements, triggered moments, mobile or app opportunities, and other emerging channels. Balance hands-on execution with strategic thinking by prioritizing the highest-impact work and turning ideas into live campaigns and experiences. Set up targeting, build campaigns, QA creative and offers, and manage the details that make programs successful. Use AI and automation to improve workflows, accelerate analysis, generate insights, support creative iteration, and help the team scale. Monitor performance closely and make thoughtful adjustments in real time to improve engagement, conversion, and revenue. Build strong systems for documenting tests, sharing learnings, and scaling what works. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Copy, Business Intelligence, and Tech to bring campaigns and experiences to life. Work closely with internal tools and technical partners, including machine learning and algorithm-supported ad systems, while maintaining a high bar for setup accuracy and QA. What we're looking for 5+ years of experience in growth marketing, lifecycle marketing, performance marketing, retention/CRM, marketing operations, or a related role. Experience owning multi-channel marketing programs, ideally including onsite placements, automated messaging, email, upgrade flows, testing programs, or other direct-response environments. Strong direct-response instincts. You know what moves the needle. Exceptional attention to detail. You enjoy learning how everything works so you can troubleshoot issues yourself or know who to go to for help. Genuine fluency with AI and automation. You already use AI in your day-to-day work and are excited about applying it thoughtfully to marketing problems. Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution. Strong analytical skills and confidence using performance data to make decisions and prioritize work. Excellent project management and organizational skills, with a strong attention to detail. Experience managing complex campaigns and coordinating across multiple stakeholders. Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional environments. A strong interest in investing and personal finance. Experience in financial services, fintech, investing, or a similarly data-driven subscription business is strongly preferred. Comfort with tools such as Braze, Segment, Google Analytics, Tableau, Jira, and similar marketing and analytics platforms. Prior people management is not required, but experience mentoring or coaching is a plus Why this role is exciting This is a chance to own and shape a growing, high-impact area of our marketing ecosystem. You’ll have the opportunity to influence strategy, improve member experiences, test new ideas, work with smart cross-functional partners, and help define how Always On evolves over time. Annual Pay Range $100,000—$130,000 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.

Develop and execute content strategy and editorial calendar across websites, emails, and social media, managing freelancers and leveraging SEO and analytics to optimize content performance. | Experience with CMS publishing (Hubspot preferred), SEO tools, editorial calendar management, excellent writing and communication skills, data-driven decision making, and collaborative teamwork. | What does this team do? The Money Management Marketing Team partners with each business line in the Money Management Business Unit to provide high-quality, compliant, and innovative marketing programs designed to drive the marketing funnel, assist the sales efforts and support the retention efforts across the retail investor audience and the institutional distribution audience. We work hand in hand with our Legal and Compliance team, Wealth Advisors team, Portfolio Managers team, Distribution team, and Client Experience team. What would you do in this role? Our Content Strategist sits on the Marketing team and coordinates the entire editorial process including topic development, creating content personally or through freelance writers, and tracking and reporting on the related KPIs for: a) our websites -- www.foolwealth.com and www.fooletfs.com, b) our organic search strategy, c) our weekly relationship email, and d) our social media pages (Facebook and LinkedIn). To be successful in this role, you must be highly motivated, innovative, versatile, and comfortable driving content and editorial strategy from conception through execution on a small team that punches way above their weight, staying compliant, and finding the best way to leverage content across as many different uses as possible. And while your gut instinct can take you far, you know very well the power of data and you harness it with every decision you make. You know what a great headline looks like and you know how to write copy that engages and delights. If that's you, I think this is the right role and the right team for you. But what does this role actually do? • Create the content strategy and editorial schedule for both Fool Wealth and MFAM by defining relevant topics to our prospects - both retail investors and professional investors - and our industry - retirement planning, financial planning, investment management, portfolio construction, asset allocation, ETFs, SMAs, financial planner/advisor professionals, etc. • Write content yourself as well as source articles to our freelancers • Create a monthly editorial calendar for our website articles, weekly relationship emails and newsletters,and social media posts. You will source, edit, organize, and publish the content (in multiple channels). • Own the publication process in Hubspot, and bring your expertise of SEO best practices, from meta tags to proper header structure to optimized alt text for images. • Search for SEO terms worth covering that also align with our target audience interests - both retail and professional investors - and know how to optimize for conversions. • Leverage expertise in both the managed investment space as well as the ETF space, understanding who our competitors are, who our prospects are, and work tirelessly to generate better content. Whether it's presenting our message in text, audio, video, infographic, or smoke signal, our content's expression will be for you to choose. • Use Google Analytics and Hubspot CRM reporting tools to review the KPIs our content is driving. • Work closely with the CMO to know when to hold'em and when to fold'em on content opportunities. • You will be working side by side with the rest of the Marketing team, which is a close-knit team of Fools with differentiated skills that combine together to create powerful, responsive materials that we are proud to share with our prospects and which represent our firms from the tone and voice to the look and feel of our brands. You will report directly to the Chief Marketing Officer. What do you need to apply? • Excitement to join a small but mighty marketing team in our pursuit to spread the Foolish word about our investment management solutions and our ETFs, while building trust and credibility in our firm, our team, and our solutions, and educating our readers, through our excellent editorial content. • Experience using CMS to input and publish content (Hubspot experience is big-time bonus points). • Excellent writing and editing skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail. • Experience successfully managing an editorial calendar and strategy: owning content creation and performance and adjusting tactics to meet goals and budgets. • Comfort working with metrics, an ability to turn data into actionable programs, and an ability to optimize day-to-day performance. • Expert communication skills, both verbally and in writing, with speed and effectiveness. • Ability to use SEO best practices and tools (Google Analytics, Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz) to inform decision-making and help aid content strategy. • Knowledge of site publishing, site design, social media strategy, SEO. • Must have important qualitative skills such as building constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintaining them over time. Ability to portray key writer relationship characteristics such as empathy, patience, advocacy and conflict resolution. • Experience using project management and distributed workforce communication tools (Hubspot, Jira, Slack, Zoom). • Interest in persuasive, direct-response marketing. Compensation: Below is our target compensation range. While we are budget conscious, we're also eager to find the right person for this role, so if your target is outside of this range, please don't hesitate to apply and we'd be happy to have a conversation. This is a part-time contract role where we are targeting 20-25 hours per week. Hourly Pay Range $75-$90 USD By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. 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Develop and maintain scalable investing microservices and APIs using Python frameworks, ensuring high availability and performance for financial data products. | 5+ years Python API development experience with FastAPI/Django, expertise in caching, async processing, SQL tuning, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. | The Motley Fool is seeking a Senior Python Developer to help us develop APIs and microservices using Python-based frameworks such as FastAPI, Django, or Flask. We need a talented individual with a proven track record of building scalable and highly available APIs consumed by tens of thousands to millions of users daily. You must have significant experience in using data caching strategies, asynchronous processes, and query and index tuning to optimize systems. You will be actively coding with cutting-edge technologies, as well as leading a team of engineers to develop and enhance the microservices that power our customer-facing investing data and tools - from real-time market data to cryptocurrencies. If you're passionate about problem solving, software engineering, and leading teams to excellence, this role puts you at the forefront of innovation at one of the most respected names in financial media. This is a contract role with potential for a full-time salaried role down the line. Strong preference will be given to candidates who reside in one of the following States. If you're open to relocation - please note that on your application! Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, and Wisconsin. 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? Ready to contribute to a dynamic engineering team that powers investment decisions for millions? This role puts you at the helm of The Motley Fool's investing microservices, where you'll orchestrate systems that handle everything from real-time market data to cutting-edge crypto analytics. This role involves innovating at the intersection of fintech and software engineering, creating solutions that help investors make smarter decisions. You'll be working with cutting-edge technologies while ensuring performance and reliability for mission-critical financial data. If you're passionate about building scalable financial systems and leading teams to excellence, this role puts you at the forefront of investment technology innovation at one of the most respected names in financial media. What would you do in this role? • Develop The Motley Fool's investing microservices. • Build systems and data vital to our investing products, websites, tools, and subscribers. • Integrate with various third-party providers and tools. • Ensure that critical data remains fresh, accurate, and highly available with failover capabilities. • Collaborate with the product owner and project manager to define work, value, and acceptance criteria. • Partner with multiple in-house teams and external providers to launch customer-facing solutions. • Utilize AI tools like Claude or GitHub Copilot to support the team (e.g., developing architectural concepts and diagrams, starter code, and automated tests). • Review code and be part of an on-call rotation Must-Have Qualifications: • 5+ years of experience in building, delivering, enhancing, and maintaining APIs consumed by multiple systems using Python-based frameworks like Fast API and Django. • Experience building scalable, high performance backends served to hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. • Significant experience in data caching and caching strategies. • Experience with asynchronous data retrieval and processing. • Experience working with relational databases, ORMs, and SQL. • Experience with query tuning and optimization. • Experience with Docker, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines. • Proficient in system monitoring and telemetry. • Ability to translate business goals and requirements into technical solutions. • Demonstrated success within high-performance teams where cross-functional collaboration is valued. • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Nice-to-Have Qualities: • Experience in architecting and developing financial microservices. • Experience with Redis and Postgres. • Experience with AWS services including AWS SQS, AWS RDS, AWS Dynamo • Familiarity with Next.js, React, and JavaScript. • Experience with portfolio aggregation services, such as Plaid. • Knowledge of investing. By applying on this site, you acknowledge that The Motley Fool will be collecting the personal data you provide for our recruiting purposes. Please see our Applicant Privacy Notice for additional information about how we process, transfer, and store your data, including where that data is stored, and about any additional privacy rights you may have based on your jurisdiction.