Position Overview

Our company is looking for a highly talented, innovative, and creative Senior UI (React) Engineer to join its technology team. We are looking for engineers that want to make a real impact in early childhood education. Our platform is evolving, so you need to be someone who can build new functionality and learn new technologies quickly as well as be able to maintain and extend existing code to support organizational needs.

Our Software Engineering team is responsible for building out SaaS and mobile solutions used by educational organizations across the globe. The team works on a wide variety of projects, solving existing problems and enabling new business objectives. We are growing our group by extending our technology team to continue building and improving on underlining elements of our products: from 3rd party integration layers, to SSO, to shared service development and instrumentation, and brand-new product design and implementation. We believe that great technology experts are also software generalists who are unafraid to jump up and down the stack to solve the problems that come our way. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, working on software that supports millions of users daily, then you have an opportunity to join us.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develops new features, components, and modules to support organizational growth
• Participates in planning, analysis, and design of new software solutions
• Works closely with Product and UX teams to translate business requirements into working products
• Investigates, troubleshoots, and remedies performance bottlenecks in the application flow
• Learns new technologies and keeps up with both traditional and emerging best practices
• Works independently and collaborates with other members of the team to ensure successful delivery of projects.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of production experience in software engineering and application development
• Strong communication and listening skills; ability to communicate complex technical problems, root cause analysis, and propose solutions
• Strong experience with React (16 and above), React-Query, TypeScript, and JavaScript frameworks
• Experience developing and maintaining high-trafficked user-facing SaaS products
• Experience with writing unit tests using React Testing Library and Enzyme and/or Jest/Testing Library
• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and Material UI V5 with Emotion
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect front-end applications to back-end services
• Knowledge of UI design patterns with an emphasis on maximizing accessibility
• Excellent debugging and testing skills, and interest to quickly learn new technologies
• Understanding of high-level web concepts (media queries, accessibility, API consumption, responsiveness, etc.)
• Experience with Agile methodology and software development
• Commitment to following security, accessibility and performance best practices
• Self-starter with strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and accountability
• Working knowledge of AWS

We offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:

• Competitive compensation package, including Employee Equity Appreciation Program
• Health insurance benefits
• 100% remote work environment
• Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance and Professional development and growth opportunities
• 100% paid life, short and long term disability insurance
• Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• Voluntary life and critical illness insurance