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Teaching Strategies is an innovative edtech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all of the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is, teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.
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Position Overview
Teaching Strategies is looking for a highly talented, innovative, and creative Senior UI (React) Engineer to join its technology team. We are looking for engineers that want to make a real impact in early childhood education. Our platform is evolving, so you need to be someone who can build new functionality and learn new technologies quickly as well as be able to maintain and extend existing code to support organizational needs.
Our Software Engineering team is responsible for building out SaaS and mobile solutions used by educational organizations across the globe. The team works on a wide variety of projects, solving existing problems and enabling new business objectives. We are growing our group by extending our technology team to continue building and improving on underlining elements of our products: from 3rd party integration layers, to SSO, to shared service development and instrumentation, and brand-new product design and implementation. We believe that great technology experts are also software generalists who are unafraid to jump up and down the stack to solve the problems that come our way. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, working on software that supports millions of users daily, then you have an opportunity to join the technology group at Teaching Strategies.
Specific Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develops new features, components, and modules to support organizational growth
- Participates in planning, analysis, and design of new software solutions
- Works closely with Product and UX teams to translate business requirements into working products
- Investigates, troubleshoots, and remedies performance bottlenecks in the application flow
- Learns new technologies and keeps up with both traditional and emerging best practices
- Works independently and collaborates with other members of the team to ensure successful delivery of projects
- Occasional domestic travel required for in-person team, department, and company meetings
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of production experience in software engineering and application development
- Strong communication and listening skills; ability to communicate complex technical problems, root cause analysis, and propose solutions
- Strong experience with React (16 and above), React-Query, TypeScript, and JavaScript frameworks
- Familiarity with RESTful and GraphQL APIs to connect front-end applications to back-end services
- Experience developing and maintaining high-trafficked user-facing SaaS products
- Experience with writing unit tests using React Testing Library and Enzyme and/or Jest/Testing Library
- Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and Material UI V5 with Emotion
- Knowledge of UI design patterns with an emphasis on maximizing accessibility
- Excellent debugging and testing skills, and interest to quickly learn new technologies
- Understanding of high-level web concepts (media queries, accessibility, API consumption, responsiveness, etc.)
- Experience with Agile methodology and software development
- Commitment to following security, accessibility and performance best practices
- Self-starter with strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and accountability
- Working knowledge of AWS
Why Teaching Strategies
At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.
Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!
Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
- Competitive compensation package, including Employee Equity Appreciation Program
- Health insurance benefits
- 401k with employer match
- 100% remote work environment
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition assistance and Professional development and growth opportunities
- 100% paid life, short and long term disability insurance
- Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Voluntary life and critical illness insurance
Teaching Strategies, LLC is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.