Senior Software Engineer - Learner

EdX is looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our Learner

This is a full-stack engineering team that works mostly with Python and javascript, but the nature of the various projects offers opportunities to work in other languages as well!

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and provide mentorship for the Learner engineering team by leveraging your skills in technical direction, priority setting, and execution/delivery.
• Design, develop, deploy, and support scalable software systems.
• Evaluate and leverage different languages and software tools to effectively deliver learner value.
• Support the open source community.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5 years of experience with Python or other development languages.
• 1+ years of experience in a leadership role.
• Full stack experience, including standards compliant HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django and/or MySQL.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.

Preferred:

• Experience with React, Backbone, and webpack.
• Experience with Docker.
• BS in Computer Science or related experience.
• Familiarity with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Experience with RESTtful API design.

EdX is an MIT start-up company that offers a highly competitive benefits plan, a pension program, free lunches every day as well as a plethora of other fun perks and access to some of the smartest people on the planet! Are you ready to be a part of our Mission?

EdX, an open source educational software start-up venture between MIT and Harvard to build the world's leading learning destination site and platform so that everyone around the world has the opportunity and access to education.

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