In the last nine years, Prodigy Education has grown from 3,000 local users to more than 100 million registered users worldwide. As one of the fastest-growing ed-tech startups in North America with global impact, Prodigy connects students, parents, teachers, and school districts with resources that promote a lifelong love of learning. Anyone with an internet connection is welcome to create a free account for its renowned Math Game and try an effective and engaging math platform for grades 1 to 8. For more information visitwww.prodigygame.com, or @ProdigyGame on Twitter.
At Prodigy Education, we have an incredible team that works tirelessly to turn our goal of making education a human right into a reality. We are immensely grateful for our amazing team and all they do every day. We welcome people who share our passion to join our team, where you will have the opportunity to help an entire generation of students to LOVE learning.
Our passion is our mission - to help every student in the world love learning!Please note: During the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to keep all our candidates safe, Prodigy is hiring and on-boarding 100% remotely for the time being.
Overview
- Here at Prodigy, we are working hard to achieve our mission of helping every child in the world to LOVE learning. Our Development teams are scaling rapidly as we continue to hit our product and growth milestones, and it’s an exciting time for the company!
As an Intermediate Full-Stack Developer on the Education Content Tools team, your primary mission will be to architect and engineer critical components across a variety of micro-services and frontend experiences. In particular, you will be working on:
- Our content management platform that is used by the Education Specialists at Prodigy to build high-quality, curriculum-aligned education content for students in the game.
- Frontend components and packages that display educational content to students within the game.
Your Impact:
- Make large architectural decisions that will help make our stack more robust and efficient
- Write and maintain high quality and well-documented code
- Implement features for backend systems that form the backbone of education content tooling for teachers and education delivery to students.
- Build world-class frontend experiences for students interacting with education content in the game.
- Develop and scale our internal education content management system that is used by Education Specialists at Prodigy to build curriculum aligned education content.
Who You Are:
- A good understanding of JavaScript and HTML5
- Experience writing RESTful API endpoints
- Passion for user experience, performance, and uptime
- Knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MSSQL, etc.)
- Experience with one or more front-end JavaScript frameworks (Backbone, React, Angular, Vue.js, etc.)
- A love for learning and staying on top of the latest in web development
Our Core Technologies:
- Backend: Node.js, Express, GraphQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, AWS
- Game: HTML5, Canvas, WebGL, Phaser, Pixi, Typescript
- Frontend: React
Bonus Points For:
- Ability to work with other programming languages
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience working with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, etc.)
- Knowledge of security best practices
- Security-minded approach to writing code and delivering solutions
- Experience with AWS technologies - EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, etc
- Familiarity with ES6 and beyond
- Experience with unit testing and testing frameworks
What We Offer:
- The opportunity to build a career of value and witness first hand the impact Prodigy has as the most engaging math platform in the world!
- A culture of transparency, where team members are involved in important conversations
- No micromanaging here! We believe in our employees skills and abilities, we encourage you to bring new innovative ideas to your team
- Full health benefits from day one (1) for you and your family, fully covered! Nothing is ever taken off your pay cheque
- We are a profitable company, with eligibility to participate in stock options for all employees
- Late or early riser? We understand! We offer flexible working hours that allow you to schedule your 8 hour day with a bit more flexibility. We do have core office hours, to ensure team members can be present for important meetings and department needs. Our core office hours are 10:30am - 3:00pm
While we operate 100% remotely for the time being, our company culture and values remain at the core of everything we do. We are offering a number of remote-friendly activities such as:
- Virtual trivia
- Zoom meditation, stretching, and fitness sessions
- Daily remote challenges via Slack