closed vacancy Senior JavaScript Engineer - remote

Our growing team is looking for a senior JavaScript Ecosystem Engineer to help guide our software design and systems, and build a solid foundation for future development. If you're obsessed with software craftsmanship, automating everything, reusable components with style guides, and simple yet elegant architectures, then let’s talk.

Founded in 2003, Ocelot is higher education’s #1 SaaS provider of multilingual AI chatbots, serving over 6.5 million students at over 400 institutions. The Ocelot tech stack employs TypeScript, React, Node.js, and a Drupal CMS. Everything is deployed on AWS. Our agile engineering team is remote-first with staff working from home the majority of the time.

Responsibilities:

• Code new features 
• Always improving our development experience
• Participate in planning meetings, development activities, deployment, and monitoring
• Shape and guide our JavaScript ecosystem code and architecture 
• Maintain high standards of quality, velocity, and craftsmanship
• Recruit and mentor software engineers

Required skills: 

• React
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Automated testing

Preferred skills:

• HTML/CSS
• GraphQL, Apollo, REST, and RESTful APIs
• Jest, Karma, Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium
• AWS, Messaging Systems, Circleci, Sentry
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment

Experience as a Technical Lead, Architect, or Development Manager a plus