Classkick
More Tries For Kids
Staff Engineer, Frontend
About the role
About Classkick
Education is humanity’s most important asset.
The global education system will look drastically different in a few years, and we're here to lead that transformation.
We believe every student on the planet deserves to be happy and successful in their education. Classkick makes impactful, research-backed products easy and accessible for millions of students and teachers.
Our investors include YC, Kapor Capital, Mucker Capital, Lightbank, and angels from Google, YouTube, Linkedin, Dropbox, & SproutSocial.
About You
You are passionate about code, design, and most importantly, that feeling users get from incredible technology experiences. Working on beautiful, functional, and impactful engineering that serves millions of students and educators is your dream. With expertise in AngularJS and Next.js, you're eager to drive the growth, quality, and reach of our web products and modernize our tech stack. You will join a team that loves helping teachers and students, frequently visiting schools to see Classkick in action. We value work-life balance, collaboration, and empowering our team members.
What You May Work On Immediately
- Enhanced User Journey: Improve user activation and habit formation, making our already sticky platform even more engaging.
- Figma-Style Collaboration: We recently added co-teaching to the joy of our users and there’s a world of network effects to unleash to benefit our community.
- Prototyping AI Assists: Develop AI-enhanced features to significantly increase the value to learners, leveraging our current AI features and extensive data on student work and collaboration.
- Modernizing the Stack: Lead our migration from AngularJS to React with TypeScript (e.g., Next.js with TypeScript), ensuring a clean and maintainable codebase.
- Scaling with Confidence: Build and maintain scalable applications with robust observability, ensuring our platform supports millions of daily active users.
- Creating Fun! Design and implement enjoyable (even funny) front-end features that enhance the experience on web and mobile platforms.
- Championing Accessibility: Develop accessible UI components compliant with WCAG, ensuring our platform is usable by all students, including those using screen readers like JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver.
How We Work
- We believe in small, hard-working, talent-dense teams with a sense of urgency.
- We are customer-obsessed and iterate relentlessly with them.
- We're generalists who enjoy tackling new challenges and learning new technologies.
- We prototype broadly across technologies and UX, then make aggressive product plays.
Curent tech stack AngularJS, React, TypeScript, Scala, Springboot, MySQL, Firebase RTDB, PostgreSQL, GCP, Kubernetes
Apply Now
Are you excited about joining a team that values diversity, inclusion, and the autonomy and empowerment of all team members? Join us in our journey to make every student in the world happy and successful in their education.
We’re fully remote, with 15% in person, namely onboarding and 1-2 team onsites and school/district product visits each year. It’s a plus if located near or willing to move to Chicago (includes a generous and equitable moving bonus).
Required application deliverable: Please send us a public facing product that you have worked on that you will be able to show and speak to during the initial screen. If there currently is no such public facing product, please send us an alternative of your choosing.
About the interview
- Apply
- Screen
- Hiring Manager technical screen
- Take home project (2 hours)
- Team interview
- Offer
About Classkick
Everyday, kids come to class feeling engaged, supported and excited to learn because of Classkick. Our goal is that every student in the world is happy and successful in their education.
Join a rocket as it is getting to escape velocity. We are profitable, in 170 countries, have spent $0 on marketing, and are quickly growing into the millions of DAUs. Find out how (and why) we're achieving all this in the links on https://classkick.com/jobs
We are lucky to serve students all over the world, and we don't take that responsibility lightly. Our products will only benefit all students if built by people with a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences and opportunities. We work to create an inclusive, flexible, and supportive environment, and to hire people across lines of difference. We see it as one way to scale and nurture a positive culture on a quickly growing team. If you want to be a part of building a team that believes in diversity and creates the space for intentional inclusive practices, we'd love to hear from you! Please reach out if you have any questions.
