Senior Full Stack Developer

Summary

Join Codecademy's Acquisition team as a Senior Software Engineer and help us build engaging online coding education experiences! This remote-friendly role focuses on experimentation and growth within our B2C business. You will leverage both frontend and backend technologies to deliver new products and features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and build products that users love. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in web application development using JavaScript/TypeScript and a server-side framework, along with experience in frontend frameworks and database technologies. You'll be a champion for engineering standards and automated testing. This is a chance to make a meaningful impact on millions of learners.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience developing web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and any server side application framework
• Experience with frontend frameworks like React, AngularJS, Vue.js, or another equivalent framework
• Experience with Golang and/or Ruby on Rails
• Experience maintaining APIs; comfortable with API design patterns (REST, RPC, GraphQL)
• Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases. We primarily use PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Building and optimizing for performance and scalability

Responsibilities

• Leverage both frontend and backend technologies to deliver new products, features and user experiences to learners
• Architect efficient and reusable systems that drive complex web applications
• Collaborate closely with our Curriculum, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and Product teams to build an engaging user experience for our learners
• Build products and experiences people love through intuitive design and clear user experiences
• Take your ideas from concept to reality: use our experimentation systems to test different variations of our pages to experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat
• Be a champion for developing and adhering to engineering standards within the team. We want to build high-quality software that’s easy to understand, easy to change, and works the way it’s supposed to
• Put automated testing, tracking, and monitoring in place to ensure our website is always working as expected

Preferred Qualifications

• Excited about the opportunities and challenges of working on projects touching all areas of our codebase and associated microservices
• Experience with containerization tools, such as Docker or Kubernetes
• You love teaching people to code as a mentor, volunteer, writer, or teacher