Remote API + Backend + Lead + Web Developer Jobs

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're looking for someone to ready to lead the web development for a profitable, growing company that teaches tens of millions of kids to code. You'll work directly with top-tier educators from Harvard, Leapfrog, Teach For America, and more to build a product that teaches computer science to kids while *actually* being fun! The best part: this is a hands-on role. Less meetings, more coding! Sound exciting? Read on...\n\nAbout the Role\n\nYou will have the opportunity to own a variety of projects including our backend API (ruby), frontend dashboard (JavaScript), progress reporting architecture, server optimization for millions of requests a day, and everything else in-between. You’ll work closely with every member of the Kodable team to make the greatest coding platform for kids even better. We’re still a small-but-growing team, so you’ll be asked to build large, high-traffic systems with little outside interference. No bureaucracy, just build it.\n\nWho we’re looking for:\n\n\n* You have 5+ years web development experience in a production environment\n\n* You have a deep, working knowledge of JavaScript (and have strong opinions on var vs let)\n\n* You care deeply about programming education\n\n* You have contributed significantly to the release of a production-level application (preferably not a side-project, something with actual users)\n\n* You have experience with REST APIs from both client and server sides\n\n* You have experience writing performant SQL queries and managing a high-traffic database (preferably PostgreSQL)\n\n\n\n\nHighly Preferable if:\n\n\n* You have experience with Ruby\n\n* You have experience working with a front-end framework in a production environment (AngularJS, React, Vue, etc)\n\n* You have experience with Test-Driven Development\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points for:\n\n\n* Experience with Sinatra, Sequel, Grape, or ActiveRecord\n\n* Experience with background jobs and asynchronous architecture (Sidekiq even better!)\n\n* You've used JavaScript build systems such as Gulp\n\n* You've worked with AWS Lambda and background jobs\n\n* Game Development experience\n\n\n\n\nAbout the team:\n\nThe Kodable team is full of bright, ambitious people who are passionate about their jobs. You’ll work with a product team with over 50 years of collective experience creating top-notch games for companies like EA, Leapfrog, and Scientific Learning. Every member of the team has a voice in making Kodable great.\n\nRight now, we’re working on improving user experiences on both our parent and teacher dashboard. You’ll join us in creating new features and improving existing ones to increase the value of Kodable to every parent, teacher and child who uses it. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, API and Backend 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

\nIn a Nutshell\n\nPrimotus is developing a unique Enterprise scale, user-configurable hybrid mobile workflow platform, which will allow users to design entire systems - including drag-and-drop database, forms, entitlements, processes, mobile applications, business decisions, messages, reports, and even maps - with little to no developer support. The platform is flexible enough to be deployed for a myriad of business verticals.\n\nWe’re looking for an experienced frontend mobile/web developer having strong UI and architectural skills associated with data-driven applications. Candidate should have expertise in Angular and native or hybrid mobile applications. \n\nIf you think you’re a good fit and are interested in building something highly configurable and really innovative, please shoot us an email.\n\nYou’d be working on some of the following initiatives: \n\n\n\n* Extending Mobile store and forward and websocket development \n\n* Building Web and Mobile data visualizations\n\n* Creating an Email Builder module\n\n* Developing an Enterprise chat application\n\n* Extending Decision Management (Business Rules) module using new DMN standard\n\n* Augmenting drag and drop workflow modeler to include Case Management (CMMN)\n\n* Developing a drag and drop Document Builder module\n\n* Expanding BPM to support many additional functions\n\n* Augment inbound and outbound streaming Message Builder \n\n* Developing/ingesting JSON RestfulAPIs\n\n* Working with team making key architecture and stack decisions\n\n* Coordinating with QA (Protractor, Selenium, etc)\n\n\n\n\nYou're Expected To Have:\n\n- 5+ years of modern JavaScript (JS)\n- 2+ years AngularJS production development\n- 2+ years production mobile application development\n- Production experience with TypeScript\n- UI/UX and architecture skills\n- JSON, REST and Web Services\n- WebSockets\n- Protractor Karma Jasmine or other testing tools\n- Store and Forward and advanced handset data storage techniques\n- Willingness to share knowledge and mentor team members\n\nNice To Have Some of the Following:\n\n- Expertise in one of more mobile frameworks such as Ionic, PhoneGap, Sencha, Titanium\n- JSON document store ( i.e. pouchdb) for offline storage\n- Mobile BI visualization tools (i.e. D3, Highcharts, ChartJS, Leaflet)\n- Exposure to our backend platform consisting of Scala, Akka, ElasticSearch\n- Workflow applications, particularly BPM (Activiti, Camunda, JBPM, etc). \n\nOur Stack : Includes many of the most-desired technologies, including:\n\n\nFrontend:\n\n\n* Angular 1x/2, TypeScript, Ionic Mobile, Redux, PouchDB (mobile data store)\n\n* CSS3, Bootstrap\n\n* Protractor, Selenium (Unit, end-to-end, API and performance testing tools)\n\n\n\n\nBackend:\n\n\n* BPMN (Java), DMN (Java)\n\n* Scala/Akka, Play Framework, Slick\n\n* Web Sockets\n\n* Kafka (event-based processing)\n\n* Postgres, ElasticSearch\n\n* Restful API\n\n\n\n\nDevOps:\n\n\n* Jenkins \n\n* GIT, GitHub\n\n* AWS\n\n\n\n\nOur development team:\n\n\n* Is small and growing with 10 members, so you'll have a significant impact. \n\n* Is divided into frontend and backend teams\n\n* Separates code into distinct modules and services\n\n* Uses JSON API for backend/frontend integration\n\n* Applies Agile programming and paired development methodology in 3-week sprints\n\n* Works in a virtual environment\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Angular, Mobile, Executive, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, API and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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

Cheers is a revolutionary instant messaging app with peer-to-peer payment features. We are a young technology startup, headquartered in Singapore, and are looking for ambitious people with passion around mobile messaging, money transfer, and social platforms. Join our team in Manila, Philippines and help us elevate instant messaging to a whole new level.\n\nYou are comfortable working in a lean startup environment and you are a self-starter who thrives under pressure. You are a highly motivated and extremely organized team-player, with excellent English communication skills. And you possess an unrelenting drive for quality.\n\n\nREQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:\n• Experience with messaging protocols like XMPP is a must.\n• 3+ years of service side, API development experience + Cloud/API.\n• Strong real-time communication background with in-depth knowledge in Restful API.\n• Experience with both stateless and stateful technologies, both asynchronous and synchronous implementations.\n• Java/J2EE patterns, servlet development in high transaction, real-time and near real-time communications solution environment.\n• Strength with parsing, caching, thread and connection pool management, exception handling and rapid scaling project.\n• Experience with e-wallets, money transfer, and technical security background are a plus.\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $30,000 — $70,000/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
\n\n#Location\nManila