Otus offers a seamless K-12 learning platform for administrators, teachers, students, and families.
We do this by implementing amazing ideas from awesome people and we need more awesomeness on our team. Are you passionate, collaborative, love to geek out on technology, and want to work for a mission-driven company that is shaping the way teachers, students and parents of students learn together? If so, we want to hear from you.
Our diverse team consists of talented designers, developers, coaches, and leaders who share a variety of interests. You'll find musicians, world travelers, beer enthusiasts, nerds, sports fans, and all-around great people who shape our positive culture.
Your Role
We are looking for a talented and highly motivated Full Stack Application Engineer to help bring the best possible software solutions to educators.
As an early member of a growing team, you must possess a strong work ethic and be upbeat, driven, intelligent, well-organized, articulate, share a passion for learning new technologies, and thrive in a fun, fast-paced environment.
You will have the opportunity to immediately contribute and see the results of your work in use by students, teachers, parents and district administrators across the country.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers, UI/UX designers, product owners and Client Services to build &ship new features and maintain/enhance existing ones
- Become and expert in broad areas of our application, building and extending on top of core services to improve the platform and customer experience
- Hands-on development, contributing in shipping working software and supporting it in production
- Collaborate with colleagues across teams in identifying and improving processes, product and platform
Qualifications
- 4+ years of development experience
- You have at least 1 project that has seen regular high amounts of traffic (>10K concurrent users)
- You have at least 1 project consisting of multiple Node.js microservice, Typescript is a plus
- You have at least 1 project consisting of an Angular 7+ SPA
- You have at least 1 project requiring modeling &querying in an RDMS (MySQL, Postgres)
- You have worked full-time remote, on a distributed/remote team
- You deliver your code to production and address production issues
Nice to Haves
- Experience with backend frameworks such as Nest, Koa or Sails
- Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with building &integrating CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with building &integrating CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with edtech products and services
Benefits and Perks
- Competitive salary, professional development spending, and a budget for home office setup
- 20 PTO days a year, plus a day off for your birthday (or a loved one’s), an interest day (to do something you love), and paid holidays
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave and great work/life balance
- Otus is a “remote first” company. Our team works remotely from the comfort of their homes (HQ in Chicago)
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life Insurance and disability benefits
- 401K with an employer match (up to 4%)
Otus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity of every kind. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Unfortunately, the company is unable to support sponsorships at this time.
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