Senior Backend Software Engineer

Think back to when you first learned to code. The magic of seeing the work you were doing bring ideas to life. The frustration of trying to track down a bug in your code that was making everything fall apart and the satisfaction of fixing it. The joy of proudly showing a friend or family member what you created.

At Codeverse, we're bringing that joy and magic and the tools to deal with that frustration to kids as young as 6 years old! We believe kids should have the tools to build anything they want and if they do they will invent an amazing future.

That's why we built Kidscript, a language designed for learning and for kids and the world's first fully interactive and integrated development platform built just for 6-13 year olds. How Codeverse works is parents sign their kids up for virtual 1:1 lessons with our expert coding guides and kids gain unlimited access to our kid friendly developer tools. Kids learn by building apps and games, earn badges and skill points to level up, and can even submit to our Codeverse App Store (codeverse.com/app-store). You can learn more about the company and our product in these videos:

About Codeverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Y34_k3Ztk

Our Brand Values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV06sZ8OKbI

How Kids Learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx0bjT-Uj4c

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll join our small, growing engineering team. You will shape both our culture and our systems and solve fascinating problems in our mission to teach 1 billion kids to code! Our product includes both the developer tools to teach kids coding and a marketplace system that matches parents and kids to our expert instructional guides for weekly 1:1 sessions. To do this we have a centralized platform and separate kid, parent and guide applications.These all use a React Javascript frontend and back end platform written in Ruby and conform to the JSON API standard. We also have our own programming language written in Javascript which uses peg.js and game engine which use the pixi.js and matter.js libraries.

As a Senior Software Engineer you will work across the stack helping us define the architecture for new product developments and implement product developments and coach, mentor and provide code reviews so others on the team can contribute.

You must also be comfortable building and organizing a large modular application and API. You understand the strengths and weaknesses of the languages and frameworks you use. You have a knack for understanding business or product needs and coming up with elegant solutions for modeling the real world. You care about the details and edge cases. You deliver high quality, well-tested work.

Responsibilities:

• Report directly to the SVP of Product
• Collaborate with CEO to design and implement architecture change to the platform for new product developments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to iterate on the design and implementation of our product
• Find and address performance issues
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Identify and communicate software development best practices
• Coordinate and communicate task dependencies, blockers, and timelines with the team
• Mentor and develop team members

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of modern languages and frameworks, with a preference for Ruby/Rails and Javascript
• Excellent technical, architectural, and process documentation skills
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in multi-functional teams with design, product, marketing etc.
• Experience with managing DevOps tasks for AWS deploy and server management a plus

Job Benefits

• Our company is 100% remote - work from anywhere in the USA on a flexible schedule
• We offer great healthcare/dental/vision plans, best in class parental leave and take what you need unlimited PTO
• Impact thousands of kids and create the next generation of inventors and creator