\nWe are hiring a PHP Staff Engineer to focus on backend application work and technical leadership while contributing to DevOps, data, and frontend work as necessary. We’re a small team, so the blend will depend on the individual and the project.\n\n\nIdeal candidates will have an incredibly strong Web SaaS background, a decade or two of Web-based professional history, and a deep comfort with PHP. You are consistently assessing whether technical choices are adding or removing system complexity. You enjoy enabling your teammates to do their best work with clear & appropriate feedback, tailored guidance, and thoughtful workload sharing. You are deeply critical of which technical choices and work will have the most meaningful impact on our goals.\n\n\nThis role offers 160K/yr and participation in our ESOP (Employee Stock Option Program) with a 4-year vesting schedule. If you start by 1 April, you’ll be eligible for the company-wide annual 1 July pay raise. If you’re interested in the role but have questions or feedback, please email the hiring manager. No one’s resume will get buried for being critical, it’s kinda the point of the job.\n\n\nWe will accept applications through Friday, 21 February and begin the email screening process as soon as possible. Initial interviews will ideally be scheduled for 24-27 February, and second interviews the week of 10 March. There are two 90-minute interviews (hiring manager + panel) and we request 3 professional references (but let's talk anyway if you have circumstances that make that impossible). We are filling this role ASAP, preferably no later than 1 April. Please note availability concerns in your application! We can be flexible and are happy to accommodate whenever we can. \n\n\nAbout uConnect \n\n\nuConnect is on a mission to help more people realize their potential by improving access to career services for all people - early in their lives and throughout their careers. Focused on the traditional higher education market, uConnect's All-In-One Virtual Career Center is used by a wide range of institutions including UCLA, MIT, and Baton Rouge Community College to radically improve utilization of career services, career readiness and student outcomes.  We're a mission-driven team working in a fun and collaborative culture which puts people first. uConnect is backed by leading technology investors including Growth Street Partners, Strada Education and LearnLaunch.\n\n\n\nCore responsibilities\n* Collaboratively plan, document, and execute complex web application programming tasks. This is foremost an individual contributor role responsible for shipping.\n* Adhere to team coding standards and architectural principles.\n* Demonstrate advanced knowledge of one or more relevant programming languages in day-to-day use.\n* Demonstrate best practices in submitted code.\n* Make informed decisions about what qualifies as in- and out-of-scope for current tasks and communicate those decisions succinctly and thoroughly.\n* Raise concerns, questions, and ambiguities for team discussion; lead consensus-building.\n* Identify risks in current code, environment, and/or process; recommend alternatives.\n* Add automated low-level tests to code as appropriate.\n* Troubleshoot existing code for defects, performance issues, or other unwanted behavior.\n* Take ownership of overall application code base and be accountable for its long-term health, performance, and alignment with team goals.\n* Take on independent investigations or maintenance projects to enable the rest of the team.\n* Take a leadership role in overall technical decisions and direction.\n* Work cross-functionally with Product, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to identify the best outcomes possible given our goals and constraints.\n\n\n\nSecondary responsibilities\n* Assist with support and bug triage.\n* Assist with CI/CD pipeline as necessary.\n* Assist with E2E tests as necessary.\n* Improve application observability with logging and automated alerting.\n* Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.\n* Guide and mentor other engineers of all levels with their professional growth and learning.\n* Assist with hiring engineers as requested.\n* Investigate new technologies for applicability to current and future engineering challenges.\n* Monitor the broader technology ecosystem for significant changes and brief team.\n* Respond to priority support incidents during off-hours in rare business-critical situations.\n\n\n\nWhat will a typical day look like?\n* Attend daily engineering standup (Mon-Thu). What’s blocking you, and how can you help your teammates? Sometimes we also do work refinement during this time.\n* Meet with stakeholders and peers to understand and prioritize needs.\n* Programming new product features, upgrading existing functionality, and updating dependencies and pipelines.\n* Performing code review async via pull request or synchronously via Zoom.\n* Validating application functionality through the use of both automated and manual testing.\n* Pairing with another engineer to trade experience or collaborate on a particular challenge. (We encourage pairing as needed and it shouldn’t be “never” but there’s no mandate.)\n* Researching tools, patterns and practices relevant to current or future work.\n* Writing internal documentation about technical choices, runbooks, or team practices.\n* Working with your manager to discuss and implement guidance or technical coaching plans for other engineers.\n* On Fridays (or an equivalent amount of time elsewhere in the week at your discretion), you’re encouraged to pursue team-agreed work that isn’t explicitly toward the product roadmap, like tool upgrades or technical research. We are purposefully targeting 20% of capacity toward maintenance work.\n\n\n\nCore skills & experiences (You check most of these boxes)\n* Building and maintaining Web SaaS products for at least 5 years (12+ is ideal).\n* Advanced programming experience in a Web server context, PHP strongly preferred.\n* Programming experience in JavaScript and HTML/CSS.\n* Advanced SQL query authoring and relational database design constraints.\n* Working remotely with a cross-functional team & collaborating with other engineers.\n* Task refinement & scoping, self-organization, and prioritization.\n* Team-based communication (asking for what they need and conveying challenges and timelines proactively), active listening, and consensus building.\n* Giving and receiving constructive and well-communicated code review feedback.\n* Experience with one or more web application frameworks, especially event-based (as in WordPress, not Kafka).\n* Troubleshooting DNS and web request / server response structures.\n* Validating code using test automation (unit or functional/integration).\n* Controlling major sources of application complexity and managing dependencies thoughtfully.\n\n\n\nAccretive skills (We hope you check a few of these boxes)\n* Using, designing, documenting, and building REST APIs.\n* Experience with WordPress (or similar).\n* Experience using caching layers to improve web application performance.\n* Building & improving CI pipelines (we use BitBucket).\n* Evaluating application-level security and remediation of flaws.\n* Evaluating & implementing accessibility requirements.\n* Experience with data pipelines, feed processing, and/or data migrations.\n* Working with Python (used in our data pipeline), data warehouses, and/or data visualization (We use GCP / BigQuery / Looker).\n* Iterative self-directed learning is second nature to you.\n* You’ve read resources or books like Will Larson’s Staff Engineer and are thoughtful about the strategic role of the Staff Engineer in an organization.\n\n\n\nWhy take this role?\n* High impact, high efficiency, sustainable efforts, & minimal politics. Our entire company culture is oriented to winning together, not individual interests.\n* Truly flexible work schedule with consistent effort to minimize meetings and prioritize individual needs. Unlimited PTO, 15 holidays, plus a mostly-shutdown entire final week of the year.\n* Commitment to a healthy engineering culture with a focus on great documentation, team-based work refinement, and clear acceptance criteria. We’re not done improving how we work.\n* We’re not just “committed to diversity”, we have a diverse & inclusive team and continue to iterate on policies that support it.\n* You're aligned with our mission of improving access to career services & employment outcomes for higher education students by supporting their individual needs.\n* Your 5-year plan could involve deepening your technical skills and focusing on impact as a special project “solver”, becoming the technical lead of a second product team as it forms, or transitioning into an engineering management role. (It likely does not involve becoming an overall project “architect” as that is our principal’s primary role.)\n\n\n\nCompensation package\n* $160,000 annual salary (with annual raise 1 July).\n* 4-year vesting stock options\n* Unlimited PTO (you must use at least 3 weeks; 4-6 is normal)\n* Health insurance (Gold PPO) premium 100% covered for employee & 60% for dependents (Dental 75% for employee & 50% for dependents; Vision 75% for employee)\n* 4% 401K contribution (3% full match + 2% half match)\n* $600 annual home office stipend\n* 12 weeks parental leave (after 1 year)\n* Guaranteed remote work policy (there’s no office)\n\n\n\nHiring process\n* Screening over email (call optional)\n* 90-minute alignment interview (Zoom video)\n* 90-minute functional area interview (Zoom video)\n* Pre-offer stage: (1) 60-minute Meet & Greet with CEO (Zoom video), (2) 3 references (preferably all who worked directly with you for 6 months or more; 1 senior to you in your team or reporting chain)\n* Background check (we do not automatically disqualify applicants for non-violent criminal convictions)\n\n\n\nAbout the team\n* We are fully remote, but require employees reside in the continental US or Canada due to time zones & compliance overhead.\n* We employ 7 full-time engineers (Manager, 4 Application, 1 Data, 1 QA Automation) that lean senior (2 staff-level, 3 senior-level, 2 mid-level, 0 entry — yes, that’s the scale). There is 1 product manager (with plans to grow).\n* No engineers have left the company in 3 years. Our principal engineer has been with the company 12 years. \n* We use a Kanban workflow in Jira (“kanban-like” if we’re being pedantic) with clear acceptance criteria and Gherkin for testing criteria.\n* In 2024, half our tickets were in support of our strategic roadmap, 20% were maintenance work, and the rest were requests (support escalations and other non-roadmap work).\n* We primarily build in a WordPress-based monolith with a few ancillary AWS services.\n* We have managed hosting, so there is no on-call rotation, but as a staff engineer you will be on the short-list of emergency technical contacts. (We had zero emergencies in 2024.)\n* Two years ago, we had zero automated tests. Today, we have more than 500 (300 of which are E2E) and will aggressively increase that number this year, focusing on PHP integration tests in a specific section of the product.\n* We’re publishing our interview plan, onboarding impact plan, and performance review criteria for this role. Our small team works best by being engaged, taking ownership, and exercising critical thinking every day. This role is critical to continuing and expanding that strategy, so consider coming to your interviews with good questions.\n* West coasters beware: Standup is 10:30am ET (Mon-Thu; we don’t have standing meetings on Fridays). It is our team’s only standing meeting (besides 1:1s with your manager and monthly All Hands).\n\n\n\nWhat will your 90-day onboard look like?\n* Weeks 1: Meet people, read docs, complete training, set up your localhost, ask questions. We’re not a “commit code on day 1” shop; relax & adapt. Check in with your manager daily.\n* Weeks 2-4: Dig into team’s current problem set and how you can start contributing now, while also learning medium- and long-term goals to start aligning decisions with them. Join the team’s workflow and complete prioritized work. Check in with your manager a few times a week.\n* Months 2-3: Take work that aligns with your learning goals to quickly expand your exposure to various parts of the product and stack. Make strong contributions, but more biased toward learning than highest priority, tapering back toward priority-based work toward the end of 90-days at the pace that makes sense. Choose a longer-term 1:1 pace.\n\n\n\n\n\n$160,000 - $160,000 a year\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Wordpress, Python, Testing, JavaScript, Education, PHP, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $100,000/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\nCambridge, MA or Remote

*Comp also includes .5% - 1.25% Stock Options*\n\nPenji is a SaaS platform that helps universities scale up student support programs (e.g. tutoring, mentoring, advising). We’ve signed deals at 55 universities like Rutgers, Georgia, and Vanderbilt in the last 24 months and are set to continue growing quickly. We are looking for a full stack developer to join our small remote team.\n\nYou’ll be working alongside our CTO, contributing across our whole stack including:\n- A React Native app (iOS, Android, Web) that students, tutors, and advisors use to schedule, manage interactions, and chat\n- A React admin app for visualizing and managing a center’s activity\n- Our backend systems that integrate with university systems\n\nYou’ll also help in developing new ways for universities to support their students while expanding existing features like appointments, drop-in, and kiosk.\n\n**How you’ll be interviewed:**\n- You’ll send us your GitHub or other profile and any material about your skills\n- We’ll review some tech questions related to your experience and also areas in our stack\n- You can ask us any questions or things you’re curious about\n- We’ll do some hands-on coding especially with React\n\n**We want to learn more about:**\n- A React Native app you helped release\n- Or your contribution to an open source project\n- Or how you earned your StackOverflow reputation\n- Or a presentation, article, or demo you made\n- Or some cool tech you worked with recently\n\n**How you’ll work:**\n- Ship features each week across all our apps and platform\n- Participate in daily standups and weekly prioritization meetings\n- Work with our university partners to improve and expand their programs with new modes and features\n- Meet up in VR for a round of minigolf!\n\n**The stack you’ll work with:**\n- Language - JavaScript & TypeScript\n- Frontend - React, React Native, React Native Web, Redux, Parse\n- Backend - Node, Parse Server, Cube JS, Heroku\n- Data - MongoDB, Firebase, BigQuery\n- Testing - Appium, Jest\n- Tools - Slack, Trello, GitHub, Loggly, JupyterLab, Azure DevOps, Docker\n\n**Within 1 week you’ll:**\n- Set up your local environment\n- Work on a good first issue and ship it\n\n**Within 1-2 months you’ll:**\n- Work together on at least one large project released to production\n- Understand overview of systems and integrations\n- Help debug and triage user-facing issues\n- Propose ideas for our roadmap\n\n**Within 3-6 months you’ll:**\n- Own large features and new integrations in production\n- Sketch out and review new products and get feedback from university partners\n- Collaborate on defining priorities and have deep understanding of student and partner needs\n\n**What we offer:**\n- 401K with 3% match, and another 2% match of 50%\n- Health Insurance Reimbursement\n- 15 Days Vacation, Unlimited Sick Days\n\nThe higher education system is entering a major state of change. Schools are feeling intense pressure to modernize, and Penji has found a customer-base that is motivated and excited to collaborate on building the future. It’s been a really great year and we’re just getting started. We’d love to welcome you to the team!\n \n\nPlease mention the word **SUPPORTS** 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 $60,000 — $100,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

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

Penji helps universities scale up student support programs (eg. tutoring, mentoring, advising). We’ve signed deals at 25 top universities like Rutgers, Georgia, and Vanderbilt within 12 months and have a large and growing pipeline. We are looking for a full stack developer to join our small remote team.\n\nYou’ll be working alongside our CTO, contributing across our whole stack including:\n- A React Native app (iOS, Android, Web) that students and tutors use to schedule, manage interactions, and chat\n- A React admin app for visualizing and managing a center’s activity\n- Our backend systems that integrate with university systems\n\nYou’ll also help in experimenting with innovative tutoring modes while expanding existing features like appointments, drop-in, and kiosk.\n\n**How you’ll be interviewed**\n- You’ll send us your GitHub or other profile and any material about your skills\n- We’ll review some tech questions related to your experience and also areas in our stack\n- You can ask us any questions or things you’re curious about\n- We’ll do some hands-on coding especially with React\n\n**We want to learn more about:**\n- A React Native app you helped release\n- Or your contribution to an open source project\n- Or how you earned your StackOverflow reputation\n- Or a presentation, article, or demo you made\n- Or some cool tech you worked with recently\n\n**How you’ll work:**\n- Ship features each week across all our apps and platform\n- Participate in daily standups and weekly prioritization meetings\n- Work with our university partners to improve and expand their programs with new modes and features\n- Meet up in VR for a round of minigolf!\n\n**The stack you’ll work with:**\n- Language - JavaScript & TypeScript\n- Frontend - React, React Native, React Native Web, Redux, Parse\n- Backend - Node, Parse Server, Cube JS, Heroku\n- Data - MongoDB, Firebase, BigQuery\n- Testing - Appium, Jest\n- Tools - Slack, Trello, GitHub, Loggly, JupyterLab, Azure DevOps, Docker\n\n**Within 1 week you’ll:**\n- Set up your local environment\n- Work on a good first issue and ship it\n\n**Within 1-2 months you’ll:**\n- Work together on at least one large project released to production\n- Understand overview of systems and integrations\n- Help debug and triage user-facing issues\n- Propose ideas for our roadmap\n\n**Within 3-6 months you’ll:**\n- Own large features and new integrations in production\n- Sketch out and review new products and get feedback from university partners\n- Collaborate on defining priorities and have deep understanding of student and partner needs\n\n**What we offer:**\n- Stock options available, up to 2% for the right candidate\n- 401K with 100% match up to 3%, and another 50% match up to 5%\n- Health Insurance Reimbursement\n- 15 Days Vacation, Unlimited Sick Days\n\nThe higher education system is entering a major state of change. Schools are feeling intense pressure to modernize, and Penji has found a customer-base that is motivated and excited to collaborate on building the future. It’s been a really great year and we’re just getting started. We’d love to welcome you to the team! \n\nPlease mention the words **OXYGEN AROUND WARRIOR** 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 $60,000 — $90,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

## 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

Make an Impact\n\nBloc offers a flexible, rigorous and unforgettable learning experience to students. We care deeply about helping students become high quality developers. Bloc combines demanding course material with weekly tutelage from industry professionals like yourself to create a high quality learning environment.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nBloc mentors meet with students 1-3 times per week, using technologies like Google Hangouts or Skype. During these sessions, mentors answer questions, pair program with their students, and discuss outcome goals. Outside of sessions, mentors use Bloc’s messaging system to answer questions, review code, help students stay motivated, and participate in the Bloc community.\n\nAs a Frontend Mentor, you will guide students through Bloc’s curriculum covering:\n\n* Front end JavaScript web development \n* JavaScript DOM fundamentals \n* jQuery \n* Building SPAs with Angular\n\nPay It Forward With Mentorship\n\nBloc’s mentors are experienced developers and designers with a passion for sharing their craft. They believe in the apprenticeship model of education: learning by building under the guidance of an experienced professional. Many of our mentors have day jobs as software engineers for technology companies or consulting firms while they work with us.\n\nThis is a part-time or full-time remote W2 employed position with scheduling flexibility and very competitive salary. You won't be a contractor who feels like a distant satellite, you'll be a valued and integrated member of the team. Excellent health benefits are available to full time mentors. \n\nPlease mention the words **PIONEER RABBIT STABLE** 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 Front End, JavaScript and jQuery jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n