Senior Software Engineer Full-Stack Development - Tynker

Tynker is the #1 kids coding platform on the market, designed to teach children computational learning and programming skills and to become Makers in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker’s solutions have reached over 60 million kids to date and are used for fun learning at home, as standardized curriculum in over 100,000 K-12 schools and for STEM and coding camps and after-school programs. Tynker’s range of offerings serve early learners all the way through advanced high school programmers.

We are looking for a strong full-stack developer to lead the development of our educational platform that revolutionizes the way schools use technology. As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer you’ll be responsible for building reusable frameworks, creating scalable district-level tools, refining our metrics and data-collection architecture, and constantly scaling our services to support growth. Join a dynamic team of developers to come up with new and stimulating ways to engage young learners to get creative with code!

Primary Tasks

• Create awesome experiences for young coders
• Write efficient back-end code that handles millions of users
• Define data models to support the user experience across multiple platforms
• Design elegant APIs to power our suite of apps
• Iterate and improve experiences periodically based on feedback
• Perform data engineering tasks to support our machine learning efforts

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining large scale web applications (100K+ users)
• Full grasp of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX-based JSON/XML web services
• Must be comfortable using frameworks like Angular, Foundation, Bootstrap, React and modern design patterns such as

Redux

• Must be comfortable with using PHP, Mongo, and other back-end technologies on LAMP and MEAN stacks
• Must be able to quickly adapt and learn to work within an unfamiliar codebase
• Must be familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Should have experience consuming and designing creating RESTful APIs
• Should understand modern front-end architectures and be able to modify JavaScript code
• Demonstrated ability to be self-driven and work with minimal supervision
• Strong object oriented fundamentals preferred

If interested, please send your resume to jobs AT tynker.com.