Thought Industries
Posted 2mo ago

JavaScript Application Engineer

Thought Industries
United States
RemoteFull Time
Responsibilities
  • Develop features
  • Fix issues
  • Collaborate team
Requirements
  • 1+ years of experience with Node.js and React
  • Strong JavaScript, HTML5, CSS
  • API development
  • SPA
  • Git
  • Familiarity with Ember.js, Koa, GraphQL
  • AWS Lambda (bonus)
  • TypeScript (future migration)
Technical tools mentioned
Node.jsReactHTML/CSSGraphQLEmber.jsKoaRESTfulTypeScriptAWS Lambda

Job description

JavaScript Application Engineer 

Thought Industries 



We're looking for a 100% remote JavaScript/Full-Stack Application Engineer to help us build out our SaaS Learning Business Platform. 


Your day to day would consist of improving existing functionality and building new functionality & integrations. We keep meetings to a minimum, so most of your day would be spent coding. 


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 & Qualifications
 
  • 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
Bonus Qualifications
  • 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
The development team is completely distributed across the US, and has been since the inception of Thought Industries — we haven't bolted on remote processes due to COVID-19, we've always done it this way, so you'll feel right at home. 

About Thought Industries 


Thought Industries is a startup in the Online Learning space. We enable training and software companies to launch and monetize external learning programs — think Shopify meets Udemy/Coursera. 


This is a full-time position that is based at our remote U.S. based office. No Recruiters, please. 


Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Thought Industries is one of the world’s fastest-growing online learning companies in the U.S. We are helping consumer brands and for-profit learning organizations change how they build, deploy and grow online learning businesses. Today, hundreds of customers and brands are using the Thought Industries’ Learning Business Platform to transform the way they reach, teach, and engage audiences. 

Benefits include:
  • 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
  • And more!



We are a growing, well-funded technology company, with a talented team and a clear vision. This is a unique opportunity to take a lead role at an exciting SaaS software company with a robust cloud-based platform. We hire talented people who are self-motivated and team orientated. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status.

About Thought Industries

A remote software providing an online learning platform.

Employees
123
Industries
Organization type
Private
Latest investment
Series A (2019) — led by Luminate Capital Partners
Headquarters
US