Engineering Lead

About the role

• As an Engineering Lead at BookNook, you will immediately play an integral role in building out, scaling, and optimizing our cloud-based learning platform. You will join our fast-growing team as an early employee that can build and shape the future direction of our services in delivering outstanding user experiences and learning tools. As an Engineering Lead, you will divide your time equally between writing software and leading the engineering team.

What you'll do

• Mentor a team of engineers, and help drive engineering culture within the organization.
• Build, test, scale, support, and frequently refine new products and services.
• Own what you build through the entire product lifecycle.
• Tackle a wide variety of coding challenges throughout the stack and contribute to all parts of our codebase.
• Build a platform that teaches reading to thousands of children every day.
• Be surrounded by a great team of highly talented professionals doing the best work of their lives, and having fun with it.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience of shipping high-quality web-based software
• Deep expertise in frontend technologies, including HTML/CSS, JavaScript, RESTful APIs, the React framework, UI testing, etc. We run a React/Redux based SPA, but we welcome experience with other frameworks and technology stacks.
• Deep expertise in backend technologies, including frameworks such as NodeJS or Django, relational databases, SQL, data modeling, API design, testing, performance optimization, etc. We run a Nodejs / Postgres stack that leverages Google Firebase for realtime sync.
• Experience deploying and maintaining software in cloud environments. We host our services on Heroku, AWS, and Google Cloud.
• Passion for learning and tackling new and exciting technical challenges.
• Someone who cares about the user experience and is driven by solving real-world problems.
• Someone who embraces the agile development process and lean startup approach, grounded in metrics and user data.
• A passion for teaching and our company mission. Many BookNook employees are former educators.