Senior Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA, United States
About Study.com
Our mission is to make education accessible, and we’ve dedicated the last two decades to becoming the leading online education platform for over 30 million learners and educators every month, Study.com is recognized as one of the most transformational companies in EdTech. Students and educators in over 9,000 school districts use Study.com and across our college programs we have saved students over $200M in tuition. Additionally, as part of our mission we’ve donated $25 million in-kind value across social impact programs to learners and educators.
About the Senior Software Engineer Position
Study.com developers help our cross-functional teams rally around common goals to deliver valuable features like these frequently. Our developers work together on the front- and back-end, emphasizing collaboration, learning and fast feedback, including pair programming and regular (constructive!) code reviews. We invest in developers’ growth, which reflects and reinforces our mission to make education accessible.
You could be a great fit for the team if you…
Love transforming UI designs and mockups into pages and flows using CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks such as Bootstrap and Angular
Enjoy improving user experiences and accessibility applying modern HTML for all form factors
Desire to work in a collaborative cross-functional team working toward common goals
Emphasize simplicity and pragmatism, reflected in your elegant code which other developers emulate
Have a calling for building modular front-end code leveraging REST-based services
Responsibilities
Improve teacher effectiveness and increase student learning by delivering in-classroom games and presenter queues tied to our video lessons on the web.
Craft a mobile app experience that leapfrogs the web interface, allowing students to work toward their degree on-the-go.
Improve student grades with a easy-to-use, reliable method for capturing and responding to student questions.
Inform student decisions by connecting them with timely information on career and school options.
Streamline lesson content creation with a sleek new modular, microservices-based content management system optimized for our educators.
Ease students’ path to college credit through placement tests which elegantly adapt to each students' level of mastery.
Requirements
6+ years work experience with Java
4+ years crafting front-end experiences using modern HTML, CSS, and Javascript
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
Fluency with object oriented design, data structures and multithreaded algorithms
The salary range for this role is $160,000 - $210,000 per year. The salary range associated with this job considers the skill sets, experience and training required for this role in the San Francisco Bay Area.
We are in the heart of downtown Mountain View, just a few steps from the Caltrain station. And regardless if we are in the office or sheltered at home, we have comprehensive health and wellness benefits. We offer ongoing education and professional growth opportunities, including a life-long membership to Study.com. You can also expect:
· 100% paid health, vision, and dental insurance for employees
· 401(k) with employer match
· 20 - 30 PTO days each year (increases with tenure)
· 10 paid holidays
· Work at home setup stipend
· Company-sponsored gym memberships
· Free Caltrain Pass
· Tuition reimbursement and gift matching programs
Study.com provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran or disability status. In addition to federal law requirements,
Study.com complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Additionally, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with applicable state and local laws.
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