Senior Software Engineer - Study.com
Mountain View, CA
About the Job
Our mission is to open the door to the life-changing impact of education and help make education accessible for all. As a nimble growth stage start-up, we've emerged as the leading online education platform helping over 30 million learners and educators each month. Study.com has earned numerous awards and it has been recognized as one of the most transformational companies in EdTech, living up to our commitment to all learners: Breakthroughs Start Here. From students and educators in over 9,000 school districts that use Study.com, to working adults striving to complete their college degree or gain professional certifications, we empower them to reach their full potential. Our product is our impact! Across our college programs alone we have saved students over $200M in tuition and enabled tens of thousands to become nurses, teachers, accountants and more. Additionally, as part of our mission we've donated over $27 million across social impact programs to learners and educators.
Study.com developers help our cross-functional teams rally around common goals to frequently deliver valuable product features. Our developers work together on the front and back-end, emphasizing collaboration, learning, and fast feedback, including pair programming and regular (constructive!) code reviews. We invest in developers' growth, which reflects and reinforces our mission to make education accessible.
This role is based in our Mountain View, CA office and is hybrid in office Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
You'd Be a Great Fit If You...
- Love transforming UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks such as Bootstrap and Angular
- Enjoy improving user experiences and accessibility applying modern HTML for all form factors
- Desire to work in a collaborative cross-functional team working toward common goals
- Emphasize simplicity and pragmatism, which is reflected in your elegant code which other developers emulate
- Have a calling for building modular front-end code leveraging REST-based services
What You'll Do:
- Improve teacher effectiveness and increase student learning by delivering in-classroom games and presenter queues tied to our video lessons on the web
- Craft a mobile app experience that leapfrogs the web interface, allowing students to work toward their degree on-the-go
- Improve student grades with a easy-to-use, reliable method for capturing and responding to student questions
- Inform student decisions by connecting them with timely information on career and school options
- Streamline lesson content creation with a sleek new modular, microservices-based content management system optimized for our educators
- Ease students' path to college credit through placement tests which elegantly adapt to each students' level of mastery
What You'll Bring to the Role:
- 6+ years work experience with Java
- 4+ years crafting front-end experiences using modern HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
- Fluency with object oriented design, data structures and multithreaded algorithms
The salary range for this position is $160,000 to $210,000 per year. Pay and is dependent upon factors including skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands.
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- Fortune Great Places to Work – Best Workplaces in the Bay Area
- Golden Bridge Awards – Gold Winner, Corporate Social Responsibility
- San Francisco Business Times & Silicon Valley Business Journal – Best Places to Work