Senior Frontend Engineer: Internal Tools
Senior Frontend Engineer: Internal Tools
We are NYC based but remote friendly!
Hello, World!, Codecademy has helped tens of millions of learners upgrade their careers, build meaningful projects, and gain confidence in their skills with engaging, accessible, and flexible education on programming and data skills. We provide hands-on interactive lessons ranging from Python to R to JavaScript and everything in between. Our learners have gone on to start companies, new jobs, and new lives thanks to what they’ve learned with Codecademy, and we’re thrilled to be working to take that impact to the next level.
Codecademy was started in 2011 by two college students in a dorm room at Columbia that were frustrated by the huge gap between education and employment. Almost a decade later, we are a rapidly growing, diverse team of 100+ headquartered in SoHo, NYC. We’ve raised over $87M in venture capital funding from top investors including Union Square Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Naspers, Y Combinator, and more.
If you want to help build a business that impacts tens of millions of people each year and helps them lead better lives, join us!
This team empowers the employees of Codecademy to do their best work every day, Its core responsibilities are designing and implementing the tooling and functionality that our internal workflows; this ranges from developer and infrastructure tooling to self-service customer service tools to 3rd party integrations for our learners to contact Codecademy. While many of the features this team maintains today are already running smoothly, the team itself is brand new.
If you’re passionate about fast development, building and testing features directly with users, and influencing infrastructure through UI to build systems, this team is for you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Implement the features and user experiences that power Codecademy’s internal web applications
- Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications
- Collaborate closely with our Curriculum, Data Science, Design, Marketing, and Product teams to build an engaging user experience for our employees
- Build internal tools to support products and experiences people love through intuitive design and clear user experiences
- Work directly with Codecademy employees to research what works well and what could be improved.
- Be a champion for developing and adhering to engineering standards within your team We want to build high-quality software that’s easy to understand, easy to change, and works the way it’s supposed to
- Put automated testing, tracking, and monitoring in place to ensure our tools is always working as expected
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- A minimum of 5 years of experience developing web applications using Javascript/Typescript and a server side application framework, including advanced knowledge of concepts like asynchronous programming, closures, types, and ES2015+
- Expertise in HTML & CSS, with a knack for layout
- Expertise in browser APIs and optimizing for frontend performance
- Experience with frontend frameworks like React, AngularJS, Vue.js, or another equivalent framework
- Experience working with RESTful APIs and client/server architectures
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT
- Excited about the opportunities and challenges of working on projects touching all areas of our codebase and associated microservices
- Experience with interaction design and/or usability research
- Experience with containerization tools, such as Docker or Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD tools like CircleCI or GitHub Actions
- You gained your software engineering skills without the benefit of a traditional CS education, whether you're self-taught, a bootcamp grad, or a Codecademy learner!
- You love teaching people to code as a mentor, volunteer, writer, or teacher
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.