Who are we
WeSchool is the leading Italian EdTech Company. We are on a mission to ensure learning never stops, our goal is to empower educators and students, and encourage them to innovate learning by making it more inclusive, collaborative and engaging.
We provide a collaborative e-learning platform, developed in-house by our Tech team, that has enabled 1.7M (20% of) Italian students not to miss school during the outbreak of the pandemic and to amplify their learning experience by leveraging digital tools.
We are a young and fast-paced team that values collaboration and innovation as keys to reaching our mission. Our company is home to almost 70 full-time employees. And we plan to keep growing our team in 2023 to push on our international expansion with a full-remote first and objective-based approach.
What's in for you
As we are expanding our Engineering Team, we are looking for a passionate Senior Frontend & Mobile Developer who is excited about shaping the future of Education. WeSchool is creating a technical area that is capable of handling the technical needs of the entire company, both for the web platform and the mobile app. Together with the Product Team, our goal is to make the user experience increasingly user-centered and frictionless.
Some of the technological challenges we face at WeSchool are related to:
- Real time collaboration: development of highly interactive front-end components that allow students and teachers to work in groups and communicate
- Scalability: scale and optimize our software with 2 million registered users
- Big data analytics: AI-based features that suggest to the student and teacher what are the most effective contents and learning methods
About you
We expect you to be:
- An expert in designing scalable and maintainable interfaces that achieve high performance
- An expert in the technologies we use to develop our platform
- Capable of co-creating improvements with all team members and with the product area
- Able to communicate effectively with all team members
- Curious and passionate about software development
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of work experience as a software developer
- Excellent knowledge and experience with both React and Native React
- Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS / SASS
- Strong proficiency with Javascript ES5 / ES6
- Great understanding of SOLID principles, MVC development patterns and Functional Programming
- Good knowledge of typescript
- Experience and passion for testing
- Experience in pair programming and code review
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with free / open-source projects
- Experience with styled components
- Experience with both relational and non-relational documental and key / value databases
- Good knowledge of another object-oriented or functional programming language
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with asynchronous event programming
- Experience with AWS cloud services
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- +30 days of paid leave
- Full-remote (with availability to be in the office for the onboarding process and when needed during the collaboration)
- A learning environment where you can build upon your skills and interests, we support you with a yearly personal development budget (up to € 1200 / year)
- A diverse, inclusive, and multicultural working environment
