Senior Full Stack Engineer

Voxy is a leading web and mobile-based English learning platform that provides personalized language instruction to major educational institutions, corporations and governments in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Voxy’s proven approach draws on more than 30 years of academic research on second language acquisition. Every online course combines adaptive learning technology and authentic, real-world content to support learners’ unique needs in real time.

Voxy is looking for a talented Senior Full Stack Engineer who wants to dramatically improve the way millions of people around the world learn English. Our development environment is fast-paced, Agile, TDD driven, relies heavily on eXtreme Programming techniques for the bulk of the engineering work and you will be too! Have a GitHub account or a blog? Let us know!

Mentoring a distributed team of bright full stack developers building a great user experience using modern Javascript and Python tools Be the go-to person for engineering frameworks, patterns and best practice with the ability to explain the role anti-patterns play in the accretion of technical debt Collaborate with Designers and Product Managers to iteratively refine features Build code that is testable, and work with Ops to build code that is deployable and measurable Help solve one of the hardest problems in education with the smartest team in EdTech

* A strong track record building highly scalable and reliable systems * A record of defining end-to-end architectures that balance business requirements, scalability and are maintainable * Logical and intuitive with an ability to link “unlinkable” dots * 5+ years of experience working with a wide array of implementations across the backend, frontend and middleware (extra points for having worked with devops and hosting infrastructure!) * 2+ years at the architecture level * Excellent communication skills both verbal and writing * Our toolset is a mixture of coffeescript, backbone.js, underscore, LESS, Jade, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Django, Amazon Web Services * Humble, wise or funny (pick 2)