Senior Frontend Engineer -- Curriculum Platform Team
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Millennials are highly-educated, tech-literate, and mission-driven. Yet seven years after the great recession ended, nearly half of young university grads are underemployed, meaning they aren’t working jobs that require a degree. And the situation has only recently begun to improve. This year US students will graduate with $37,000 in debt, only to accept unpaid internships and part-time jobs.
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The Curriculum Platform Team's primary purpose is to support the needs of Codecademy’s curriculum developers and the content they produce. Our work involves crafting tools for authors, storing and presenting all content to the Codecademy learning environment, and maintaining our learner code evaluation platform.
- Implement the features and user interfaces of Codecademy products like our Interactive Learning Environment and our custom CMS
- Use state of the art front-end technologies to architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications
- Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products
- A minimum of 5 years of experience developing web applications using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES6
- Expertise in HTML & CSS, with a knack for layout, specificity, cross browser compatibility, and accessibility
- You know your browser APIs and optimizing for frontend performance is a challenge you'll gladly accept
- Proven experience with frontend frameworks like React JS or Angular JS
- BS/MS in Computer Science or engineering
- Experience developing user facing web applications at an top 100 site
At Codecademy, we are committed to teaching people the skills they need to upgrade their careers. Codecademy aims to educate a richly diverse demographic of users with our product and in order to accomplish this, we believe our team should reflect that rich diversity. Our company celebrates diversity in all of its forms-- race, gender, color, national origin, marital status, sexuality, religion, veteran status, age, ability, disability status-- and works to create an inclusive workplace where people of all backgrounds and beliefs are empowered to better their futures.