Full Stack Engineer

Voxy is a leading web and mobile-based English learning platform that provides personalized language instruction to major educational institutions, corporations and governments in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Voxy’s proven approach draws on more than 30 years of academic research on second language acquisition. Every online course combines adaptive learning technology and authentic, real-world content to support learners’ unique needs in real time.

Voxy is looking for a talented Full Stack Engineer who wants to dramatically improve the way millions of people around the world learn English. Our development environment is fast-paced, Agile, TDD driven, relies heavily on eXtreme Programming techniques for the bulk of the engineering work and this developer will be too!

• Build great user experiences for students who speak different languages and live all over the planet
• Use modern Javascript and Python tools to build fluid, engaging front-end web applications in a SPA architecture
• Collaborate with Designers and Product Managers to iteratively refine features
• Build code that is testable, and work with Ops to build code that is deployable and measurable
• Help solve one of the hardest problems in education with the smartest team in EdTech

• Logical and intuitive with an ability to link “unlinkable” dots
• 3+ years of experience working with a wide array of implementations across the backend, frontend and middleware (extra points for having worked with devops and hosting infrastructure!)
• Familiar with modern front end tools such as coffeescript, backbone.js, underscore, LESS, Jade
• On the backend, familiar with tools like SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), Django, Amazon Web Services
• Curiosity and knowledge about the technologies and architectural patterns underlying the web
• Really enjoys the challenges unique to being truly “full stack”
• Humble, wise or funny (pick 2)