An innovative E-learning company are helping to transform an education system in which too many children still fall through the gaps. They do this by building intelligent technology to recruit, train and qualify a global community of teachers, making effective one-to-one learning more accessible than ever before.
They are seeking experienced JavaScript developers with front, back or full stack experience to work on a wide range of exciting and technically challenging projects - established and greenfield. You will join their rapidly expanding development team, work in an autonomous squad with the chance to significantly influence technology, framework and processes.
Today they use a wide range of technologies, spanning Ruby, JavaScript, Elixir, MySQL, WebRTC, built in an agile Scrum style on a service-based architecture, using CI, GitFlow, AWS, Docker, and advanced ops / infrastructure management and instrumentation. They are expanding focus on tablet and mobiles, so knowledge of responsive and hybrid frameworks is also valuable.
Experience of these will be a great bonus, but they ultimately value individuals that can have the confidence to take decisions and determination to deliver excellent technical solutions.
Projects include a sophisticated searchable content library, refactoring and enhancing their interactive classroom and building powerful reporting and visualization tools.
- 2+ years of real world web development, ideally on large scale consumer facing applications
- Deep understanding of Javascript - benefits, limits and quirks
- Exposure to one or more major JS frameworks for frontend (React, Angular etc) or backend/fullstack (Node, Express etc)
-Experience of building re-usable, flexible code and libraries, using agile TDD/BDD approach
- Hands of experience of agile development processes and tools
If you want to apply your talent and drive to solving a major technical challenge, that has a positive impact on society, then join this company.