Software Engineer - Learner Team

edX is an MIT startup 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 all working toward the mission of further education!

Our awesome team - focused on solving Learner’s needs - is looking for a Software Engineer to join us here in Cambridge. This will be a major focus for edX this year and we're looking for an eager engineer to help implement/invent new products.

We’re looking to hire an engineer that is eager to work on the full stack!

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the Learner engineering team by leveraging your skills in technical direction, priority setting, and execution/delivery.
• Design, develop, deploy, and support scalable software systems.
• Understand and leverage key aspects of building operationally viable solutions.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 0-1 years of professional experience required
• Experience with Python or other dynamic development languages. (We use Python, but we can ramp you up if you’re new to it. We're confident you'll love the stack after we train you up!)
• Exposure to multiple technologies, including but not limited to HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django, MySQL.
• Values teamwork, collaboration and an evolving start-up atmosphere.

Preferred:

• BS in Computer Science or related
• Experience with D3, Backbone, and RequireJS.
• Extra points if you share an active Github profile or a school project you’re proud of.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.
• Committed to documentation best practices - your code will be consumed in an open source environment!
• Familiarity with standards compliant front-end development and accessibility best practices.

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