Remote CSS + JavaScript + Students + UX Jobs

\nUK-Based Remote\n\nThis position is REMOTE but candidates will be required to attend team days in the Midlands region of England.\n\nAt WUSTL International we are developing a next-generation platform to support teaching and learning at a major US business school. The tools we are creating support face-to-face learning, blended and distance learning, and lifelong learning. They also support a strategy of engaging students and alumni throughout their careers.\n\nWe are expanding our development team to six by recruiting two Web Developers.\n\nAs a Web Developer you will play a key part in developing and maintaining our code base on the front end and the back end, working in a fast-paced, collegiate environment. You will have an appreciation of the key aspects of UX and information design alongside the ability to implement great experiences using HTML, CSS and SCSS. Likewise, you will be inspired by the serverless model and will take an active part in developing on the platform-as-a-service paradigm.\n\nWhat you will do:\n\n\n* Develop solutions based on user requirements, taking responsibility for the full development cycle.\n\n* Implement highly scalable solutions using AWS Lambda, and user experiences using Angular, using Typescript on both the front and back end.\n\n* Constantly challenge and expand your knowledge of reliable software architecture, programming and new technologies.\n\n* Work with agile processes that are adapted to the team’s and project’s needs.\n\n\n\n\nWhat technologies you'll be using:\n\n\n* Angular and RxJS.\n\n* AWS Lambda, using node.js and Typescript.\n\n* Other AWS services (RDS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, S3, ElastiCache etc).\n\n* Microservices with synchronous and asynchronous communication.\n\n\n\n\nMinimum qualifications:\n\n\n* 5+ years of professional software development experience.\n\n* A good degree education, preferably in computer science.\n\n* A strong portfolio of projects in which you have taken part.\n\n* OOP skills and knowledge of design patterns.\n\n\n\n\nPersonal attributes:\n\n\n* Strong work ethic.\n\n* Team player.\n\n* Customer service oriented.\n\n* Excellence driven.\n\n\n\n\nHow to apply:\n\nSend us a cover letter explaining why you feel you are a great fit for the role, your salary expectation, and include an up-to-date resume as well.\n\nApplicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.\n\nNo agencies please.\n\nNext steps:\n\n* We will read your cover letter and resume. The more you can tell us about yourself and your previous roles the easier it is for us to make a thorough evaluation of your suitability for the role. Links to code are helpful but not an absolute requirement if this is difficult for you.\n\n* If you get through this first stage, we’ll arrange an interview (in person or by video) with at least two members of our team.\n\n* If we need more evidence of your expertise we may ask you to complete a short programming exercise. This will be something related to the role so you can see the type of work that you will be undertaking and we can see your technical ability. We’ll then follow up with an online meeting for you to walk us through the output of the exercise.\n\n* For successful candidates we will make an offer. \n\n\n\nBenefits:\n\n\n* Salary commensurate with experience.\n\n* 10% employer pension contribution.\n\n* 30 days annual leave.\n\n* Contribute to key technical decisions.\n\n* Work alongside and gain experience from experts in the field of digital education.\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, Node, Full Stack, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Teaching, Serverless and CSS jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $117,500/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

\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

## What you tell your friends you do\n\n“You know how teachers in public schools are always overworked and overstressed with 30 kids per classroom and never ending state tests? I make their lives possible and help their students make it pretty far in life”\n\n## What you really will be doing\n\n- Architect, design and develop the frontend of all of Front Row's products.\n- Extend, improve and iterate relentlessly on existing product suite\n- Champion the best frontend practices to the rest of the team\n- Mentor and support more junior developers in the organization\n- Create, improve and refine workflows and processes for delivering quality software on time and with carefully calculated debt\n- Work closely with Front Row designers, educators, product managers, customer support representatives and account executives to help the business move fast and efficiently\n\n## How you will do this\n\n- You’re part of an agile, multidisciplinary team. You bring your own unique skill set to the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your team’s goals.\n- You prioritize your work with the team and its product owner, weighing both the business and technical value of each task.\n- You experiment, test, try, fail and learn all the time\n- You don’t do things just because they were always done that way, you bring your experience and expertise with you and help the team make the best decisions\n\n## What have we worked on in the last quarter\n\nChanged the Student Dashboard to have specialized flows and UX for each student age range\nWe have rewritten our business logic to be decoupled from the Common Core math standards, supporting US state-specific standards and international math systems\n\nPrototyped and released a High School Math MVP product\n\nBuilt an open source graphing library on top of Paper.js for handling visualizations for high school math questions\n\nImplemented a Selenium QA test suite 100% in Haskell\n\nMade numerous performance optimization passes on the system for supporting classrooms with weak Internet bandwidth\n\n\n## Team\n\nWe’re an agile and lean small team of engineers, teachers and product people working on solving important problems in education. We hyper-focus on speed, communication and prioritizing what matters to our millions of users.\n\n## Requirements\n\n- You’re smart and can find a way to show us.\n- A track record of 5+ years of working in, or leading, teams that rapidly ship high-quality web-based software that provides great value to users. Having done this at a startup a plus.\n- Awe-inspiring at JavaScript, know your way around React, feel right at home building SPAs, you're a master of whipping AJAX and DOM into submission\n- You have a strong understanding and passion for building large scale frontend applications that delight users and enable them to get their jobs done\n- You have had to work with gradual typing type systems such as TypeScript and FlowType\n- You have been exposed to the basics of functional programming\n- You've used LESS/SCSS, understand media queries and breakpoints, and can explain why and how you'd use a grid system.\n- Exceptional emotional intelligence and people skills\n- Organized and meticulous, but still able to focus on the big picture of the product\n- A ton of startup hustle: We're a fast-growing, VC-backed, Silicon Valley tech company that works hard to achieve the greatest impact we can.\n\n## Benefits\n\n- Money, sweet\n- Medical, dental, vision\n- Incredible opportunity to grow, learn and build lifetime bonds with other passionate people who share your values\n- Food, catered lunch & dinner 4 days a week + snacks on snacks\n- Room for you to do things your way at our downtown San Francisco location right by the Powell Station BART, or you can work remotely from anywhere in the US, if that’s how you roll\n- Awesome monthly team events + smaller get-togethers (board game nights, trivia, etc)\n\nFront Row is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. \n\nPlease mention the words **POWER HURRY FOREST** 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#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Teaching, Education, CSS, Senior, Engineer, Front End, Math and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n

## What you tell your friends you do\n\n“You know how teachers in public schools are always overworked and overstressed with 30 kids per classroom and never ending state tests? I make their lives possible and help their students make it pretty far in life”\n\n## What you really will be doing\n\n- Architect, design and develop the frontend of all of Front Row's products.\n- Extend, improve and iterate relentlessly on existing product suite\n- Champion the best frontend practices to the rest of the team\n- Mentor and support more junior developers in the organization\n- Create, improve and refine workflows and processes for delivering quality software on time and with carefully calculated debt\n- Work closely with Front Row designers, educators, product managers, customer support representatives and account executives to help the business move fast and efficiently\n\n## How you will do this\n\n- You’re part of an agile, multidisciplinary team. You bring your own unique skill set to the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your team’s goals.\n- You prioritize your work with the team and its product owner, weighing both the business and technical value of each task.\n- You experiment, test, try, fail and learn all the time\n- You don’t do things just because they were always done that way, you bring your experience and expertise with you and help the team make the best decisions\n\n## What have we worked on in the last quarter\n\nChanged the Student Dashboard to have specialized flows and UX for each student age range\nWe have rewritten our business logic to be decoupled from the Common Core math standards, supporting US state-specific standards and international math systems\n\nPrototyped and released a High School Math MVP product\n\nBuilt an open source graphing library on top of Paper.js for handling visualizations for high school math questions\n\nImplemented a Selenium QA test suite 100% in Haskell\n\nMade numerous performance optimization passes on the system for supporting classrooms with weak Internet bandwidth\n\n\n## Team\n\nWe’re an agile and lean small team of engineers, teachers and product people working on solving important problems in education. We hyper-focus on speed, communication and prioritizing what matters to our millions of users.\n\n## Requirements\n\n- You’re smart and can find a way to show us.\n- A track record of 5+ years of working in, or leading, teams that rapidly ship high-quality web-based software that provides great value to users. Having done this at a startup a plus.\n- Awe-inspiring at JavaScript, know your way around React, feel right at home building SPAs, you're a master of whipping AJAX and DOM into submission\n- You have a strong understanding and passion for building large scale frontend applications that delight users and enable them to get their jobs done\n- You have had to work with gradual typing type systems such as TypeScript and FlowType\n- You have been exposed to the basics of functional programming\n- You've used LESS/SCSS, understand media queries and breakpoints, and can explain why and how you'd use a grid system.\n- Exceptional emotional intelligence and people skills\n- Organized and meticulous, but still able to focus on the big picture of the product\n- A ton of startup hustle: We're a fast-growing, VC-backed, Silicon Valley tech company that works hard to achieve the greatest impact we can.\n\n## Benefits\n\n- Money, sweet\n- Medical, dental, vision\n- Incredible opportunity to grow, learn and build lifetime bonds with other passionate people who share your values\n- Food, catered lunch & dinner 4 days a week + snacks on snacks\n- Room for you to do things your way at our downtown San Francisco location right by the Powell Station BART, or you can work remotely from anywhere in the US, if that’s how you roll\n- Awesome monthly team events + smaller get-togethers (board game nights, trivia, etc)\n\nFront Row is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. \n\nPlease mention the words **SHAFT LIMIT ABOUT** 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#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Teaching, Education, CSS, Senior, Engineer, Front End, Math and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n