Remote Backend + JavaScript + Students + UX 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xODA=). 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

\nAre you looking to work on challenging projects, with a diverse and motivated team, while building technology that can change the world? Do you want to join an award winning startup in their scale-up phase? Do you want to give students all over the world access to a prosperous future? Do you want to work with large distributed systems, machine learning, web crawling, and other interesting technology?\n\nWizenoze is a growth-stage startup building software that enables students to find content online that matches their interests and abilities. Our mission is to help close the global Readability Gap. You’ll be responsible for envisioning, developing, and testing products that will improve how students discover and interact with the online world. Read more here about our mission.\n\nWe’re looking for a Senior Frontend Developer with 8+ years experience. Deep experience with technologies like React/Redux, RiotJS, JQuery, Bootstrap, etc. required. Strong design and architecture skills essential. Based in Amsterdam or remote within the +-3 GMT timezones. You need to be curious and passionate with a drive to continually improve yourself, your craft, your code, and your colleagues. You need to hold yourself and your peers to the highest standards to deliver the best quality products possible! You must not be complacent, and must keeping working to improve your craft and skills. You must be able to step outside your role to work on requirements, deal with customers, and think holistically about our systems, processes, and people; always with a view to improving efficiency and long-term maintainability and quality.\n\nNo visa sponsorship.\n\nYou need to be available during core hours 10:00-16:00 in CET/CEST.\n\n\n\nYour responsibilities: \n\n\n* Building responsive and user-friendly single-page web applications with complex state management hidden behind beautiful UX/UI\n\n* Building developer-friendly SDKs to be used on customer platforms\n\n* Setting architectural and design guidelines to maintain code quality and avoid technical debt overload\n\n* Automating testing so we can move quickly and refactor safely with confidence\n\n* Helping the backend team design simple and dev-friendly APIs for internal and external use\n\n* Structuring repos well using webpack, babel, npm, etc. to ensure CI/CD is simple and code is well structured for both development and deployment needs\n\n* Building reusable libraries to be shared between frontend apps\n\n* Monitoring performance and errors of the applications via Sentry, etc.\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements: \n\n\n* Fluent in English (C2 level)\n\n* 8+ years proven experience delivering and maintaining production-ready software\n\n* Great at building responsive and user-friendly single-page applications in React/Redux, ES7, RiotJS, JQuery, Webpack, HTML5, CSS, SCSS, LESS, etc.\n\n* Build tools like Webpack, Babel, NPM, etc.\n\n* Have an engineering mindset with a focus on code quality, reusability, and testability\n\n* Unit testing and integration testing experience\n\n* Bootstrap and CSS experience, although we have an experienced UI/UX designer to help with this.\n\n* Understand how to debug hard problems in HTTP, XHR, JSON, CORS, SSL, etc.\n\n* Solid experience in other frameworks and javascript libraries to meet the 8+ years requirement is fine, but you must be keen to learn and use the technology above.\n\n* Open source development workflows using git and github.\n\n* Communicating and collaborating on designs remotely using diagrams, video conferencing, instant messaging, prototypes, etc.\n\n* Be able to demonstrate the above skills with a detailed walkthrough of apps you’ve built\n\n\n\n\n\nBonus points: \n\n\n* Passionate about UX design. See things from a user’s point of view, and figure out the best UI for them.\n\n* Able to reduce complex user interaction flows into crystal clear user interfaces.\n\n* Good understanding of common user interface patterns and pitfalls.\n\n* Back-end development knowledge is also a plus. While you won’t be required to work in the back-end, it will help to understand the code to help us improve the API for 3rd party devs.\n\n\n\n\n\nYour traits:\n\n\n* Curious. Able to learn and apply new concepts and tools rapidly\n\n* Pragmatic. Choose the practical path to delivering a product without getting lost in fancy new technologies or techniques\n\n* Attention to detail. Every line of code should be crafted well and understood thoroughly. No copy/paste coding allowed\n\n* Perseverance. Able to solve difficult problems without giving up and expecting someone else to take over\n\n* Take pride in your work. You should be proud to put high quality software in front of users. Software you’ve tested thoroughly yourself\n\n* Take responsibility for your work throughout its life cycle from requirements to delivery and maintenance\n\n* High degree of personal responsibility over designated duties. Step outside your role if needed to get the job done well\n\n* Consistent and organised\n\n* Timely and eloquent communicator\n\n* Focused on helping the team win, before personal gain\n\n* Open to receiving objective criticism and improving upon it\n\n* Like to work in a startup 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 Senior, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, JavaScript, Video, CSS, Git, 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