Front-end Engineer
Instructure
At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create something awesome. And that's where you come in:
We are looking for an experienced engineer to help us rasing our product development. This team is working on a course catalog platform that offers institutions an easy course enrollment flow with related analytics and provides a storefront for monetizing course content.
What you’ll do:
- Join the team who owns Canvas Catalog: it is a branded marketplace which allows teachers and institutes to share their learning materials with others
- Write maintainable, testable React code that follows best-practice and conforms modern accessibility standards
- Work with our UI/UX team to delight users with innovative experiences
- Help us improving system stability and providing outstanding uptime
- Learn and use AWS services like EC2, CloudFront, SQS, Lambda, S3, and RDS to provide world-class uptime and performance
- Lead initiatives that drastically improve the quality of the system you work with
- Provide guidance to other engineers in the latest frontend technologies
What We Look For:
- Demonstrated excellence in programming, debugging, and architecture — our engineers design, build, and deploy their own code
- Deep knowledge of JavaScript, including the latest features in ES6
- Established production experience with React
- Solid experience in unit testing to ensure application quality
- Capable communicators who are passionate about product development and user experience
- Speak English fluently
- A bias to action, desire for ownership, and love for problem-solving
- Experience with cloud-hosted, high-traffic applications and any exposure to Java, Spring are welcome
We’ve always believed in hiring the most awesome people and treating them right. We know that the more diverse we are, the more diverse our ideas will be and when we openly welcome those ideas, our environment is better and our business is stronger.
All Instructure employees are required to successfully pass a background check upon being hired.