Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thought Industries is a startup in the Online Learning space, enabling training and software companies to launch and monetize external learning programs. The JavaScript Application Engineer will focus on improving existing functionality and building new features for the SaaS Learning Business Platform.
Responsibilities
- Develop new product features on the company platform
- Correct platform issues and bugs
- Work and collaborate with product team members
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Navigate a large existing codebase and learn new technologies and techniques along the way
- Ensure the technical feasibility and implementation of UI/UX designs
- Analyze code, contribute to requirements, system risks and software reliability
- Product quality and drive to low defect count
Skills
- One or more years of experience with Node.js
- One or more years of experience of React Components
- Ability to work with older technologies and assist with code migration
- Strong understanding of: JavaScript technologies like Prettier, HTML5 and CSS, Single Page Applications (SPA), asynchronous, event driven architecture, request handling and RESTful interfaces
- Good understanding of: API development, responsive UI design, Github and code repository controls, Ember.js, Node.js with Koa, GraphQL
- You sweat the small stuff, but know how and when to ship it
- You are passionate about listening to users and building elegant web products
- You have worked on product teams and directly involved in releasing production, enterprise level code
- Ability to develop maintainable, scalable, quality, reusable, readable code
- Good understanding of: Airtable, Slack, Agile process, including Kanban and Scrum, TypeScript (future migration), AWS Lambda
Benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Short term disability, long term disability, life insurance, employee assistance program
- Wellness and meditation
- Employee rewards program
- 401k
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