Your Impact 

In this dynamic full stack role, you will make an immediate impact in modernizing edx.org, the “front door” to the edX platform. You will drive visible contributions to our design system and branding efforts, setting the stage for a personalized, high-impact user experience. Your work will open the door for more than 30 million users and will connect learners with the courses that will move their careers forward and change their lives.

Your Team

The Discovery Team’s work directly impacts our users, enabling them to find courses that are relevant to their needs. Working closely with Product, UX, and Marketing teams, this group leverages both industry research and insights from our own A/B testing to identify feature areas that can help learners engage with course content as effectively as possible. Dedicated to the success of the whole team, you will join a team of four engineers that value pair programming and a collaborative work environment. You will report directly to the Engineering Manager.

Headquartered in the heart of Cambridge’s Technology Square, we’re currently fully remote. 

You will

• Design, develop, and deploy software solutions in ReactJS
• Work with the engineering and product teams to refine project specs
• Work with UX/UI to create different user experiences for A/B testing
• Learn from your coworkers and share your knowledge with them through tech talks, interest groups, companywide demos, and hackathons
• Diagnose and fix bugs

You Have

• 2+ years working in a modern front-end framework, including at least 1 year in ReactJS
• Experience with REST APIs
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Willingness and desire to learn

Preferred

• 1+ year of full stack development experience
• Experience with Python/Django
• Enthusiasm for Agile/Scrum processes
• Experience with A/B testing 
• Basic understanding of UX design
• Background with website accessibility and performance
• Experience with pair programming
• Experience with (or interest in) infrastructure of software systems (DevOps / SRE work)

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. 

That’s why we provide new employees with:

• Employee onboarding and training sessions
• Personalized 30/60/90+ day plans
• Individual quarterly and annual goals 
• Career pathways 

And much more to support you in your personal journey at edX! That said, if this role looks like a great next step for you, please apply… even if you can’t “check every box.” We’d love to hear from you.

edX is the education movement for restless learners. Together with our founding partners Harvard and MIT, we’ve brought together over 30 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world, and industry-leading companies onto one online learning platform that supports learners at every stage. And we’re not stopping there—as a global nonprofit, we’re relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location.

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