Remote Engineering + Front End + Git + Students Jobs

Higher Education is in crisis. The cost of education is skyrocketing, while only 33% of students in the US graduate in four years and issues of equity and access are worsening.\n\nAt Coursedog, we believe Higher Ed's reliance on outdated software is the root of the problem. 75% of universities operate entirely on legacy, on-premise software, resulting in millions of frustrated students saddled with heaps of debt.\n\nCoursedog's mission is to break down barriers in Higher Education. To do so, we are building a modern operating system for Higher Education: from supercharging the student scheduling experience to empowering administrators with analytics that graduate more students in less time. Our vision is to build software that enables the $800b Higher Education market to reach its highest ideals to facilitate upward mobility, equity and positive change.\n\nCoursedog has raised $23m in venture capital as a hypergrowth startup backed by YC, First Round Capital and has tripled its employee headcount over the last 1.5 years. We were recently ranked in Forbes top 500 US startup employers and our employee engagement scores rank in the top 5% of tech companies. You can learn more about our culture [here](https://coursedog1.notion.site/The-Coursedog-Brain-e49387c1986b46c8ae72d6b98b89adcf).\n\nWe are looking for a Backend Node.JS Engineer to join the Coursedog engineering team. The ideal candidate will be a proven technologist, passionate about software engineering, and have deep technical understanding of technologies such as Node.js. The position will be responsible for our backend services, infrastructure, and databases, and is also likely to touch the frontend quite a bit as well.\n\nAs a company, we value diversity and inclusion. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.\n\n**What You Will Do:**\n* Use Node.js, MongoDB, and other BE tools to design and implement the underlying application logic and database structure powering our APIs.\n* Improving our AWS infrastructure and overall application performance\n* Work closely with other developers and infrastructure engineers to analyze and design the application architecture, and implement the functional requirements.\n* Understand the needs of our clients to develop and improve the end-user experience.\n* Collaborate with product managers to develop and enhance our products according to our product roadmap and business strategy\n\n**About You:**\n* Naturally curious and willing to step into the user’s shoes\n* 5+ years of backend development experience\n* Full professional proficiency in English\n* Deep technical knowledge and expertise in BE technologies and tools (Node.js, Express, MongoDB)\n* Demonstrated experience with designing REST APIs\n* Familiar with building SPAs and using Git for version control\n* Experience with building complicated, enterprise-level systems\n* Experience with unit and e2e testing\n* Owners mentality\n* Comfortable with working in a fully remote team\n\n**Bonus Points for Any of These Skills:**\n* 5+ years of development experience for web applications, especially in b2b saas\n* BS/MS in Computer Science or related field\n* Experience working for a high-growth start-up\n* Big + for experience in higher education\n* Familiarity with frontend frameworks such as Vue.JS\n\n**Coursedog Provides:**\n* Flexible work hours - we have no weekly hour minimums or specified work times. Work whenever you want to, at a pace and time of day that you prefer.\n* Expectations of time off - we push all team members to take off at least 17 days per year. However, this is entirely your choice, and time off can be taken whenever you want/need it.\n* Remote-first company - We believe remote work is an approach to work, not just working from home, and spend much of our energy on fostering trust and psychological safety in our digital space.\n* Lots of other benefits\n \n\nPlease mention the words **BREEZE WORLD GLUE** 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 $70,000 — $130,000/year\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

\nAt Dataquest, we teach data science to a community of hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We help students deeply learn concepts, build projects, work together, and gain the confidence they need to start new careers. Read more about our philosophy here, and read what students think here.\n\nWe want to eventually help tens of millions of students worldwide change their lives through data science education, and you’ll play a key role in helping us get there. We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help support and evolve our learning platform.\n\nWho Should Apply?\n\nWe’re seeking a senior frontend engineer who enjoys working on various frontend applications, building new features, and maintaining and enhancing our existing code. You’ll be responsible for driving progress and quality in our frontend codebase, so vision and strategy are key.\n\nYou must be passionate about learning, and enjoy developing new features without regressions and in a rapid iteration cycle. We’re seeking someone with senior level experience who enjoys mentoring other engineers. You’ll have a lot of autonomy in how you work and will be responsible for setting frontend development guidelines and best practices organization-wide.\n\nHow You’ll Contribute:\n\n\n* Lead the development and improvement of frontend features.\n\n* Help create an improved frontend architecture.\n\n* Set frontend development guidelines and code quality standards.\n\n* Mentor junior engineers.\n\n* Collaborate with the engineering team to develop a resilient and scalable frontend platform.\n\n* Decide when to incur and when to pay down technical debt.\n\n* Identify and fix frontend bugs.\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\nMust Have:\n\n\n* 5 + years of web development experience.\n\n* Strong verbal and written communications skills -- with an emphasis on clarity, empathy, and kindness.\n\n* Agile experience.\n\n* Experience measuring the effectiveness of the features you work on.\n\n* Experience leading architectural discussions and creating milestones.\n\n* Experience mentoring other engineers.\n\n* Experience maintaining a frontend build process.\n\n\n\n\n\nNice To Have:\n\n\n* Passion for education and/or education technology.\n\n* Passion for or interest in data science.\n\n* 2 + years of Python and Django experience.\n\n* You’re interested in and seek new technology that can improve your work.\n\n* Experience working remotely.\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\nThese are some of the technologies you'll be working with at Dataquest, though you may end up introducing new ones:\n\n\n* Our frontend is a React using Redux, GraphQL, and WebSockets.\n\n* The backend is Django on Python 3.\n\n* We use Docker extensively, both for student code execution and for deployment of our services.\n\n* We use Kubernetes on Google Cloud to orchestrate our containers in production.\n\n* Our data is largely stored in Postgres, with some caching in Redis.\n\n* We use Git for source control, CircleCI testing, and deployment, and Prometheus with Grafana for monitoring and alerting.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy You Should Work at Dataquest:\n\n\n* Flexible Paid Time Off.\n\n* Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance and 401K (available to US team members).\n\n* The opportunity to see your impact on the lives of our students every day.\n\n* The chance to work with an engaged and mission-driven team.\n\n* The chance to contribute to product direction and decisions.\n\n* The ability to work remotely.\n\n* A supportive environment where you can get help when you run into blockers.\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, Engineer, Front End, React, Education, Cloud, Git, Python, Junior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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