Web Developer, Contract at Cape
New York, NY
$100–$200/hrfrom the description
Jul 1, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A part-time contract role (roughly 12–25 hours per week) responsible for maintaining and developing a mobile carrier's public marketing website and related web properties. Day-to-day work spans content updates via a headless CMS, translating Figma designs into production pages with Next.js, managing analytics and A/B testing integrations, and handling security patching and dependency maintenance. Suits an independent developer comfortable owning a high-traffic site end-to-end with a security-conscious approach to marketing attribution.
Mid level · Remote · Contract
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (web developers). range 2,250–16,400
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $94,687 (middle half $65,642–$129,006). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
This role is explicitly a contract engagement, estimated at 12–25 hours per week.
The compensation range of $100–$200/hr is quoted for New York, NY but the caller has declared this fully remote and national; the posted range is the only figure available.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is squarely about owning a marketing website (cape.co), managing a CMS, and building pages/components — classic 15-1254 Web Developers territory. However, the depth of work (CI/CD pipelines, server-side analytics, security vulnerability remediation, PR review) edges toward 15-1252 Software Developers; 15-1254 is the primary pick because the deliverable is a marketing site, not a standalone application.
JavaScript and TypeScript are listed together as a single proficiency requirement ('modern JavaScript/TypeScript'); they are emitted as separate skills with each as the other's alternative, since both are named and commonly used together.
Next.js is listed with the qualifier 'or similar React frameworks' — React is captured as an alternative.
Sanity is listed under 'What We're Looking For' with the qualifier 'like Sanity' (headless CMS platforms); it is the only named CMS and is treated as a hard gate on headless CMS experience, with Sanity as the named example.
Marketing analytics tools (Mixpanel, Google Ads, Meta) are listed together as examples of required experience; Mixpanel is the primary skill with the others as alternatives.
Security vulnerability remediation experience is called 'a big plus' in the posting — treated as preferred.
Node.js version management and dependency tooling, and image optimization (WebP) appear under 'What We're Looking For' but are framed with softer language ('familiarity with') — treated as preferred.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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