Software Engineer II
Software Engineer II
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Job Description
We are NYC based but remote friendly unless specified.
Hello World! Codecademy is on a mission to build inspiring careers in technology through engaging accessible and interactive online coding education.
Since 2011 our team has grown to over 200 employees serving 50 million learners from 190 countries. Weve raised over $82M in venture capital funding from top investors including Prosus Owl Ventures Union Square Ventures Y Combinator and more--which gives us the capital to get stuff done in an impactful way.
Join us to help build a business that empowers tens of millions of people to lead better lives!
At Skillsoft we are all about making work matter. We believe every team member has the potential to be AMAZING. We are curious agile and most of all true. Join us in our quest to democratize learning and help individuals unleash their edge.
This 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 youre 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 thats easy to understand easy to change and works the way its 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 2 years of experience developing web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and any server side application framework
Experience with frontend frameworks like React AngularJS or another equivalent framework
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
Experience with Golang and/or Ruby on Rails
You love teaching people to code as a mentor volunteer writer or teacher
Check out our Engineering Values matrix on our Github here.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex age national origin disability veteran status genetic information and other legally protected categories.
Employment Type
Full Time
