Interested in designing and building the next generation of Education SaaS? We're looking for a Fullstack Senior Software Developer to join our remote software development team. Join us as we create tools educators and students love!\nYou will join our small team of 9 developers, build and deploy features for a product that is scaling rapidly. Our team's core focus is building a product reliably at scale. You are looking for a role where you can do that in a startup that supports you to grow and develop as we do.\n### TL;DR\n- Full Remote Perm Role > £85,000 - £100,000 ($115,000 - $140,000)\n- User focused SaaS product built in two week sprints in a React, Redux, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS Lambda/serverless environment.\n- Grow as fast as our team does.\nAula is building a community-first product that brings together students and educators in a digital environment to interact and collaborate.\nAs an organisation we are Remote First. Our rituals allow us to have a team based all around the world and deliver excellently engineered solutions to complex user problems. As a Fullstack Software Developer you will work as part of a small product focused team on features and products that help us achieve our mission to enhance the way the world learns.\nTechnically we are a team that makes elegant solutions to large scale learning problems. We work in two week sprints, you architect, build and deploy the product that users enjoy using.\nAula is the Learning Experience Platform (LXP) for higher education.\nWe make it easy for educators to create community-first learning experiences that truly engage students. By combining easy-to-use technology with evidence-informed learning design, we save educators time while better supporting students' success.\nWe're a 35-person fully remote team spread across the globe from Nebraska to Pakistan.\nSolve the most important problems. Work from anywhere.\n**You will**\n- Be a part of a high-performing and inclusive team that values autonomy. - Work with your teammates to set high goals — and celebrate success when we hit them. - Contribute to building a collaborative, productive and friendly remote workplace.\n- Build new features from the ground up as well as improving our existing product.\n- Be user centric: attend user interviews and measure success based on user metrics.\n- Be happy to provide production support, system diagnosis and troubleshooting.\n- Ensure consistency, performance, and reliability across platforms: desktop web, iOS & Android.\n- Commit to high-speed iterations, high code quality, and continuous improvement via agile processes.\n- Work directly with Product Designers and Managers to build, maintain and improve user experience.\n### About the team\nOur Product Development team is made up of designers, engineers and product managers. We work closely with our data team and product support to ensure what we are building is loved.\nWe are a small engineering team who build a complex product with messaging, content editing and assessments used by huge academic institutions.\nOur virtues are what makes Aula as an organisation unique.\nOur commitment to diversity and inclusion should not be mistaken with building an organisation where 8 billion people would thrive. We lean into what makes Aula unique: we're building an organisation where high performing people are silly ambitious about improving education - at scale.\nWe judge our virtues by what we do, not what we say.\nOur virtues are\n🚀 Silly Ambitious\n🔍 Uncomfortably Focused\n🗣 Transparent by Default\n### What you need to do the Job\nThe most important thing about you is that you are curious and care deeply about building great products that affect people's lives. You are transparent, considerate and ready to work hard to further our mission.\nWe're looking for software engineers who care about shaping our users' experience, building and supporting features across the entire stack (more emphasis on the frontend).\n**Must-haves:**\n- 5+ years Engineering experience, ideally across the stack.\n- Experience building products end to end, ideally within a SaaS company.\n- Product mindset. Ability to break down work into deliverables that bring value to users.\n**Nice to have:**\n- Extensive knowledge of: Javascript, React, React Native, Node.js, Mongodb and AWS.\n- Proven track record of working and communicating effectively with Product Managers, Design, Data and Support.\n- Experience with automated testing: unit, integration and e2e.\n- Incident response experience.\n- Practical knowledge of cloud infrastructure management.\nYou approach everything you do proactively and are always looking for ways to improve and innovate. You understand that this is a small team in a startup that is scaling and are excited to contribute to the Aula story.\n### **A fair chance**\nEvery role in the Aula team is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the superpowers and potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other difference that makes you, well, _**you**_.\nMore than just encouraging your application, we're committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. It's this philosophy that drives us towards our mission, and we open our doors to those who share these motivations. \n\nPlease mention the words **GARLIC SPREAD TORTOISE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 $115,000 — $140,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nWe are looking for an engineer with a “find a way or make a way” attitude that is excited to join a small but growing team that has more projects than developers.  This opportunity is for someone excited for autonomy, ownership, and breadth of responsibility.\n\nOur environment is typical of a start-up:\n\n\n* We work in small teams, fast-paced, we all get a lot done by everyone wearing many hats.\n\n* We are serious about optimizing our time and staying focused on the most important goals and outcomes.\n\n* We are a remote team and are completely on board with 100% remote work, meaning we focus on over-communication to ensure we can stay in sync despite our physical distance.\n\n* We coordinate using a kanban board, hold a daily standup, and mostly communicate via ad hoc video calls and Slack.\n\n* We’re building lots of new things, but also maintaining a significant business.  We are mindful of the balance and need to monitor and pay down tech debt and also innovate with exciting greenfield projects.\n\n\n\n\nTech stack.\n\n\n* Our retail application is a frontend-heavy PWA written in NodeJS and React, containerized via Docker, and Deployed via Kubernetes. We also make heavy use of Parse Server, which provides an API to the MongoDB via REST and GraphQL endpoints.\n\n\n\n\nBuild something challenging.\n\nThis isn't just another CRUD application. Your challenge will be to deliver a highly-available service with complex business logic being used by hundreds of businesses 24/7 to keep their operations running.  Our entity model is vast and a major part of our domain is synchronizing data with third party traceability systems. Explore the limits of your resourcefulness by designing human and automated systems that deliver consistent performance, reliability and scale whilst working with less-than-ideal third-party requirements and systems.\n\nSee if you fit our requirements.\n\nFor this role, we are looking for someone with the following characteristics:\n\n\n* 5-10 years experience working in back-end applications\n\n* 5-10 years experience working with front-end applications\n\n* Deep Familiarity with Node JS and Express\n\n* Familiarity with GraphQL\n\n* Familiarity with Docker and containerized orchestration in a cloud environment. Bonus for experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud (Google Kubernetes Engine). \n\n* Familiarity with PWA best practices\n\n* Familiarity with ES6 & ReactJS\n\n* Bonus for experience working in a fast paced / high-expectations startup environment\n\n* Ability to acutely focus on company objectives and mission at hand.\n\n* Proven dedication to creating maintainable, functional, and reliable systems.\n\n* Ability to pass a background check; have appropriate work authorization\n\n* Extremely articulate communicator in all virtual mediums.\n\n* An eye for design, detail, and user experience\n\n* Familiarity with GIT branching models, CI pipelines, and related workflows.\n\n\n\n\nYour Mission & Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Architect, plan and build new features, ranging from discussing wireframes to creating the data model to architecting deployment processes.\n\n* Contribute to maintaining and building out robustness of our Core implementation.\n\n* Contribute to our engineering culture by designing and developing with intention as well as our focus on continuous improvement.\n\n* Advise, mentor and lead other full time engineers and contractors on projects, small to large, from start to finish.\n\n* Technical Planning (Spec writing etc.)\n\n* Technical Estimation & Delegation\n\n* Team Evaluation / Process (Retros, grooming, velocity management etc.)\n\n* Implementing company technical initiatives (Jira, GQL, Apollo, Sentry error policies)\n\n* Accountability for team & product performance\n\n* Contributing to technical & product direction\n\n* Ensuring high availability of retail services for our customers\n\n* Assist with deployments and infrastructure architecture/orchestration.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo achieve our mission, we always look for high-caliber people who share our core values:\n\n\n* Value-Driven: Above all else, we are concerned with driving value to customers and partners through over-delivering on the benefits we’ve promised them. \n\n\n\n* Grit: We are resilient marathoners who finish what they start and love tackling problems of all sizes. We take critical feedback and push through to get the job done. \n\n\n\n* Rigor: We are data driven, analytical and exhaustive in decision making. We take in the evidence, integrate information from multiple sources quickly, draw conclusions and take actions - quickly.\n\n\n\n* Collaboration: We leave our egos at home, we challenge each other and we work together to find the best solutions, every day, day in and day out. \n\n\n\n* Accountability: We sign up for the hard stuff and take ownership to see it through. We make lemonade out of lemons when we have to and don’t let attitude get in the way of getting it done.\n\n\n\n* Curiosity:  Most of us dork out over non-work related topics at a ridiculous level of detail, because that’s how we’re wired. We’re naturally inquisitive, ask tough questions and aren’t afraid to ruffle feathers to find better answers. \n\n\n\n* Honesty: We’re transparent and honest because that’s the right way to treat other people. Integrity is the basis of trust, and trust is everything when you’re creating the future together.\n\n\n\nOther Details.\n\n\n* We are a fully remote company and this position will be remote.\n\n* We are looking for someone who is ready to join us full-time after a brief trial period (all our employees do this).\n\n* We offer health benefits, 401k, unlimited time off, charity matching, and other cool perks. \n\n* We are offering an annual salary in the range of $140,000 - $150,000 USD.\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, Full Stack, Video, Cloud, Git, Node and API 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

\nWe are looking for an engineer with a “find a way or make a way” attitude that is excited to join a small but growing team that has more projects than developers.  This opportunity is for someone excited for autonomy, ownership, and breadth of responsibility.\n\nOur environment is typical of a start-up:\n\n\n* We work in small teams, fast-paced, we all get a lot done by everyone wearing many hats.\n\n* We are serious about optimizing our time and staying focused on the most important goals and outcomes.\n\n* We are a remote team and are completely on board with 100% remote work, meaning we focus on over-communication to ensure we can stay in sync despite our physical distance.\n\n* We coordinate using a kanban board, hold a daily standup, and mostly communicate via ad hoc video calls and Slack.\n\n* We’re building lots of new things, but also maintaining a significant business.  We are mindful of the balance and need to monitor and pay down tech debt and also innovate with exciting greenfield projects.\n\n\n\n\nTech stack.\n\n\n* Our retail application is a frontend-heavy PWA written in NodeJS and React, containerized via Docker, and Deployed via Kubernetes. We also make heavy use of Parse Server, which provides an API to the MongoDB via REST and GraphQL endpoints.\n\n\n\n\nBuild something challenging.\n\nThis isn't just another CRUD application. Your challenge will be to deliver a highly-available service with complex business logic being used by hundreds of businesses 24/7 to keep their operations running.  Our entity model is vast and a major part of our domain is synchronizing data with third party traceability systems. Explore the limits of your resourcefulness by designing human and automated systems that deliver consistent performance, reliability and scale whilst working with less-than-ideal third-party requirements and systems.\n\nSee if you fit our requirements.\n\nFor this role, we are looking for someone with the following characteristics:\n\n\n* 5-10 years experience working in back-end applications\n\n* 5-10 years experience working with front-end applications\n\n* Deep Familiarity with Node JS and Express\n\n* Familiarity with GraphQL\n\n* Familiarity with Docker and containerized orchestration in a cloud environment. Bonus for experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud (Google Kubernetes Engine). \n\n* Familiarity with PWA best practices\n\n* Familiarity with ES6 & ReactJS\n\n* Bonus for experience working in a fast paced / high-expectations startup environment\n\n* Ability to acutely focus on company objectives and mission at hand.\n\n* Proven dedication to creating maintainable, functional, and reliable systems.\n\n* Ability to pass a background check; have appropriate work authorization\n\n* Extremely articulate communicator in all virtual mediums.\n\n* An eye for design, detail, and user experience\n\n* Familiarity with GIT branching models, CI pipelines, and related workflows.\n\n\n\n\nYour Mission & Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Architect, plan and build new features, ranging from discussing wireframes to creating the data model to architecting deployment processes.\n\n* Contribute to maintaining and building out robustness of our Core implementation.\n\n* Contribute to our engineering culture by designing and developing with intention as well as our focus on continuous improvement.\n\n* Advise, mentor and lead other full time engineers and contractors on projects, small to large, from start to finish.\n\n* Technical Planning (Spec writing etc.)\n\n* Technical Estimation & Delegation\n\n* Team Evaluation / Process (Retros, grooming, velocity management etc.)\n\n* Implementing company technical initiatives (Jira, GQL, Apollo, Sentry error policies)\n\n* Accountability for team & product performance\n\n* Contributing to technical & product direction\n\n* Ensuring high availability of retail services for our customers\n\n* Assist with deployments and infrastructure architecture/orchestration.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo achieve our mission, we always look for high-caliber people who share our core values:\n\n\n* Value-Driven: Above all else, we are concerned with driving value to customers and partners through over-delivering on the benefits we’ve promised them. \n\n\n\n* Grit: We are resilient marathoners who finish what they start and love tackling problems of all sizes. We take critical feedback and push through to get the job done. \n\n\n\n* Rigor: We are data driven, analytical and exhaustive in decision making. We take in the evidence, integrate information from multiple sources quickly, draw conclusions and take actions - quickly.\n\n\n\n* Collaboration: We leave our egos at home, we challenge each other and we work together to find the best solutions, every day, day in and day out. \n\n\n\n* Accountability: We sign up for the hard stuff and take ownership to see it through. We make lemonade out of lemons when we have to and don’t let attitude get in the way of getting it done.\n\n\n\n* Curiosity:  Most of us dork out over non-work related topics at a ridiculous level of detail, because that’s how we’re wired. We’re naturally inquisitive, ask tough questions and aren’t afraid to ruffle feathers to find better answers. \n\n\n\n* Honesty: We’re transparent and honest because that’s the right way to treat other people. Integrity is the basis of trust, and trust is everything when you’re creating the future together.\n\n\n\n\nOther Details.\n\n\n* We are a fully remote company and this position will be remote.\n\n* We are looking for someone who is ready to join us full-time after a brief trial period (all our employees do this).\n\n* We offer health benefits, 401k, unlimited time off, charity matching, and other cool perks. \n\n* We are offering an annual salary in the range of $140,000 - $150,000 USD.\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, Full Stack, Video, Cloud, Git, Node and API 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