Senior front-end software engineer

Kognity is a successful EdTech startup located in Stockholm, Sweden. We deliver digital textbooks to schools in more than 50 countries, which improve teachers' and students' everyday life.

Our tech team now needs further reinforcement of a driven and experienced frontend software engineer.

About the role

You are a frontend engineer with some years of professional experience who likes get things done, and do them well. You are pragmatic, you like when things are moving fast and having fun while at it. You appreciate smart, dedicated colleagues that truly care about you, and about the product and the technical solutions. You know the value of simplicity, and you believe in code reviews and continuous integration for the purpose of deliver valuable stuff.

You will be part of a small team of engineers that develop the technical learning platform & infrastructure. You will work primarily with our frontend together with our Lead Front-end and the rest of the team, building great things for teachers & students. Since the team owns the full stack, you should expect to jump in on some back-end or other work occasionally in order for the team to progress. It's also important that you understand the whole chain in order for us to be efficient.

The team works across the full spectrum from infrastructure, deployment, database, back-end and front-end. The current stack contains python web apps & API's to pure javascript frontend apps using AngularJS & Webpack. We also contribute with our Product team to the ideation and solution stages of upcoming features and projects.

Who we are

We are all high-achieving individuals that love coming to work. We believe it's part of the job to learn new things and continuously improve our ways of working, while helping students achieve their ambitions and goals with their education through our platform.

Though growing very rapidly, Kognity is still a small company. You will be a very big part of what we are building. What you do will make a big difference to students and teachers throughout the globe. We keep meetings and hierarchy to a minimum, boosting speed and creativity. We believe in agile and lean ways of doing things, delivering end-user value continuously.

Skills & Requirements

Your background:
* University degree (Bachelor or higher) in computer science or IT

* 3+ years of frontend web development experience, working with client-based applications

Required skills:
* AngularJS

* RESTful API's, Websockets

* HTML5, Javascript ES6, Babel

* SASS, Responsive strategies & frameworks

* Grunt/Gulp/Webpack or similar tools

Other skills we value:
* Flux-pattern, React & Redux

* AMQP/Celery/RabbitMQ

* Automated testing (frontend, backend, full-stack) & testing strategies (selenium)

* Continuous integration (Jenkins, Teamcity), Deployments, Builds

* Experience of UX, graphical frameworks

* Working with AWS, Heroku, CDN, Memcached, Vagrant, Docker etc.

* Database knowledge, SQL (PostgreSQL), but non-sql knowledge valuable as well