Sr. Full Stack Developer

The Acquisition team is focused on experimentation, growth and user testing to help make lasting changes to our B2C business across the globe. The team will help grow our business by understanding what sets of offerings we want to present to our learners to help drive conversion (and ultimately get them to their learning goals). We are a team with the opportunity to drive meaningful change at Codecademy!

If you re passionate about getting more people excited to learn technical skills through our products, this is the team for you.

 

What Youll Do

Leverage both frontend and backend technologies to deliver new products, features and user experiences to learners
Architect efficient and reusable 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 learners
Build products and experiences people love through intuitive design and clear user experiences
Take your ideas from concept to reality: use our experimentation systems to test different variations of our pages to experiment, iterate, learn, and repeat
Be a champion for developing and adhering to engineering standards within the 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 website is always working as expected

 

What Youll Need

A minimum of 5 years of experience developing web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and any server side application framework
Experience with frontend frameworks like React, AngularJS, Vue.js, or another equivalent framework
Experience with Golang and/or Ruby on Rails
Experience maintaining APIs; comfortable with API design patterns (REST, RPC, GraphQL)
Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases. We primarily use PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Building and optimizing for performance and scalability

 

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 containerization tools, such as Docker or Kubernetes
You love teaching people to code as a mentor, volunteer, writer, or teacher