Full-Stack Developer — Backend for Christian Discipleship Platform (Detailed Prototype Provided)

You can view and interact with the live prototype here: https://mikejody777.github.io/Project-Emmaus/ I'm building Setting Captives Free Academy, a Christian discipleship platform. The first course is fully prototyped and working — a complete front-end with student lessons, mentor review tools, and a "Living Margin" feature where mentors can annotate specific parts of a student's response. Everything currently runs in the browser with no backend. What I need: a developer to build the real backend this prototype is missing — user accounts, a database, a mentor-assignment system, and email notifications — so this can go from working prototype to real, multi-user platform. What's already done for you: I'm providing two documents up front — a full Developer Handoff Package (architecture, exact build priorities, a known-issues list, file-by-file breakdown) and a Design Decisions Register (33 documented decisions explaining why the platform works the way it does). Please review both before submitting a proposal — they'll answer most of your early questions and should make scoping this fast and accurate. Scope, roughly in priority order: User accounts & authentication (students and mentors) Real database (replacing the prototype's browser-only storage) Gender-matched, round-robin mentor assignment logic Two-way email notifications (every mentor/student exchange, not just first contact) Admin tools for reassigning students The prototype currently supports 5 lessons of a 40-day course, with more being written and added on an ongoing basis — your backend needs to accommodate that growth, not assume a fixed content set. Please review the attached documents and reference specific sections in your proposal — that tells me you've actually read them.