Learning Support Teacher

This is a remote position.

Role

Responsibilities

• Work alongside product to understand our requirements, and design, develop and iterate
  
• Think through complex architecture to build robust and scalable solutions
  
• Build well-abstracted modules and services
  
• Provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability
  
• Follow scrum methodology to iterate and deploy fast
  
• Mentor other team members and colleagues
  
• Contribute to documentation, process and procedures
  

• 7+ years of experience
  
• Expertise in various Javascript frameworks/libraries including, but not limited to NodeJS and React.js
  
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript
  
• Understanding of the fundamental principles of asynchronous code
  
• The ability to write efficient, scalable, reusable code
  
• The ability to conceptualize, diagnose, architect, iterate and build systems, sub-systems and services that are complex and enterprise scale
  
• Advanced knowledge and experience in web and server-side technologies
  
• Experience in both NoSQL and relational databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL or similar databases) and an advanced understanding of data modeling
  
• Experience in one or more OO language like Python/Flask (preferable), Java, Ruby, etc.
  
• Identity Management and Security (SSL protocols, data encryption, user authentication, authorization services)
  
• Expertise in Git
  
• The ability to work across all software platforms at a high level frontend and backend, server management, CI/CD, administrate third party tools/services/integrations
  
• An advanced understanding of open source libraries/frameworks and integration with third party APIs with a focus on Payments, Notifications and Analytics
  
• Advanced knowledge of client/server-side caching mechanisms across multiple layers
  
• Proven track record of technical leadership, software delivery, ownership and mentorship
  
• Superb understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture, data structures and algorithms
  
• Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservice architectures
  
• Expertise in AWS and its related services (EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, Elastic Beanstalk and more) or an equivalent cloud provider, Linux and shell scripting
  
• Knowledge of Nginx, Docker, gunicorn is a plus
  
• The ability and the experience to proactively account for the edge cases rather than diagnosing them after the fact