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Looking to join a fun, highly-talented team that’s working on an edtech product the world really needs right now?\n\nLearnCube is on a mission to transform live online education across the globe. Through our award-winning online classroom and online school, we help education entrepreneurs to succeed online. We also have a special strength in online language education, where we work with iconic language education companies like Babbel.\n\nWe're growing fast and need your help.\n\n\n**More about LearnCube and our development stack:**\n \nLearnCube is a leading edtech SAAS provider. Our Virtual Classroom and Online School platform makes it easy for language teachers and tutors to teach online professionally. \n \nLearnCube’s customers are individual tutors, edupreneurs, online language schools and tutoring companies.\n \nWe’re a fast-growing company founded in 2014, based in London but with a “remote-first” culture. \n \nAs a web developer for LearnCube, you will be working with a close, highly-talented team on our online classroom and online school products.\n \nYou will have so much more opportunity to learn, contribute and grow professionally with a startup like LearnCube, than you would from working for a big but soulless technology company.\n\nWe use vue.js, Python and Django to build our cutting-edge solution but there’s also plenty of room to build your skills, experiment and play with other exciting technologies.\n\n\n**What you’ll do:**\n\n- Contribute to online classroom features and new products. For example, in the last year, we released new homework, large group classroom and breakout room features for our online classroom. \n- Improve the experience for our school administrators, teachers and students through learning analytics and data logging. \n- Scaling infrastructure is not the focus of your work but we offer a unique opportunity to gain experience if you’re curious. COVID-19 has increased the number of classes we deliver by more than 10-fold with more high-potential opportunities on the horizon. \n- Collaborate with other areas of LearnCube - customer support, customer success and sales - to improve the business, user experience and customer experience.\n- Provide some technical customer support for customer queries, especially for our VIP customers using our API products.\n- Keep up-to-date with best practices and technology.\n- Support research and development of our most innovative ideas within our “Learncube Labs” including smart ways to improve education through A.I.\n\n\n**More about the role:**\n\n- Competitive salary with a generous vacation policy and company bonus.\n- This a remote position. There is no office!\n- There is a lot of opportunity to grow your career into a leadership role if that is your desired path.\n\n\n**Criteria for a successful candidate:**\n\n- Honest, humble, highly competent, fast-learner, self-starter and motivated by the mission\n- Minimum of 3+ years of software development experience\n- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team\n- Attention to detail\n- Shows initiative and not shy from taking on responsibility and projects\n- Ability to adapt and grow (startup life isn’t a straight line)\n- Able to overlap with European business hours at least once per day\n\n\n**Bonus points for a successful candidate:**\n\n- Some experience with VueJS\n- Some experience with Django\n- Some experience with MySQL\n- Experience with WebRTC / Websockets\n- Experience with Redis\n- Experience with AWS tech stack\n- API gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, ELB, EC2, RDS\n- Experience with Elasticsearch\n- Design / UX skills\n- Association or experience with tutoring or learning spoken languages\n- Startup experience\n- Evidence of creating your own products and solutions\n\n\n**Non-negotiables**\n\n- Are you a team player and a good person? We have a strict no d///head policy and are not looking for “programming purists”.\n- Do you have a strong interest in education and edtech? \n- Are you fluent in spoken and written English? Note, you don’t have to be a perfect native speaker.\n- Do you already share our values: honesty, trust, grit, motivation, and energy?\n- Can you demonstrate strong skills in customer support and care, understanding how to work with people and getting them the help they need?\n- Can you provide evidence of at least 6-12 months of experience working at least 20 hours a week remotely?\n \n \n**LearnCube perks and path**\n\n- Freedom to live wherever you like as long as you have reliable internet and a permanent residence.\n- Annual all-expenses-paid team trip to an exciting location in Europe (when it's properly safe to travel again).\n- A clear career path to lead part of our development and product team as we grow.\n- We offer a supportive, safe and fun work environment. Whatever gender, race, sexuality, nationality, religion, education, languages or quirks you have (or don’t), we don’t mind. Just bring strong values of honesty, trust, grit, motivation, and energy.\n- We’ll provide a monthly contribution towards your home-office or favourite local co-working space.\n- Loads of opportunity for professional development.\n- Oh… and you’ll feel much more motivated knowing you’re changing the world for the better; improving both the access to and quality of education across the world.\n\n\n**Final words**\n \nAside from the non-negotiables, please don’t worry if you can’t check absolutely every criteria above (you’re probably more awesome than you think).\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **BOAT GUARD PURITY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nWe need a strong backend web applications developer, full time.  LAMP stack; running proprietary Angular apps on CodeIngnitor, plus ExpressionEngine content management system with lots of customization, a few NodeJS apps for real-time data processing tasks, and a little bit of legacy PHP;  running on a multi-tier farm in front of high avail MySQL., hosted in AWS.\n\nLooking for a developer with strong web app architecture experience on the backend to help modernize the legacy code (a little), build and deploy new features and apps (a lot), and in general keep our menagerie of ecommerce sites and internal support applications working like a charm.\n\nThe current development team works 100% internally focused, on dedicated systems for our ecommerce sites, marketing, operations, and investment/financial tools for our analysts.  4 full-time devs, two part time, plus 3 designers, all working in a DevOps style.  Informal and flat organization, with lots of sharing and collaboration, but also complete ownership of your projects from concept to shipping. \n\nMust be a strong multi-tier web applications developer who can work on all aspects of the site from front-end (coding, not design) to application and data layers.  Good working knowledge of security and scalability best practices.  Experience in a fast release cycle environment – we put out new code multiple times per day.  Self-driven, with a focus on putting out clean and well documented code.  \n\nBonus points if you:\n\n\n* Know SQL like the back of your hand.  Lots of focus on reporting and data visualization for the marketing and sales team.\n\n* Have testing and analytics experience.  We make heavy use of Google Analytics, Optimizely, etc. to find out what works and doesn’t for our users. \n\n* Can pitch in on AWS systems management – anything from setting up an SSH relay box at the edge, to configuring opcode caching on PHP, to updating puppet to add additional dependencies.\n\n\n\n\nWork is 100% remote with no travel requirement (if you want to come visit our main office in the beautiful ski village of Stowe, VT, you’ll be welcome of course).  All existing developers and designers are remote too – no odd man out here. \n\nCompany has been around 10+ years, profitable since inception, and is a leader in the investment publishing industry.  Flexible schedule and shift timing.  Paid time off.  Etc. \n\nIndividuals and placement agents only, no vendors.  Must have at least 5 years web app dev experience.  Non-U.S. welcome to apply, but English skills must be 99th percentile, as this is a fast-moving U.S. based team.  \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Node, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, English, LAMP, Angular, Travel, Marketing, Sales, Backend and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n