Showbie Inc. Looking for Senior Application Developer (NodeJS, React) at Edmonton, AB Full Time

About Us

At Showbie, we’re building tools to help teachers transform their classrooms by delivering faster, more engaging, and more impactful feedback and assessment to their students. Our apps, Showbie and Socrative, are used by millions of teachers and students in classrooms worldwide.

We are proudly based in Edmonton, Canada, but we have a growing global team located across Canada, the United Kingdom, and Norway.

We are comprised of people who are passionate about empowering educators as they use technology to redefine and improve their classrooms. Our values of tenacity, caring, and curiosity guide our attitudes and actions each day.

The Role

Showbie is looking for a Senior Web Application Developer to join our Socrative product team. Socrative is a companion app to Showbie that provides interactive classroom assessments to over a million teachers and tens of millions students each year. As a Senior Web Application Developer, you will help build and maintain the Socrative app built with NodeJS and ReactJS. You will be comfortable building front end code, back end services, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable cloud architectures.. You have a keen interest in writing clean code, following software development best practices, and are constantly learning innovative technologies. You will be a part of an empowered software development team that contributes to the full software development lifecycle. You will get to work closely with other technical experts (developers, DevOps, QA, etc.), designers and product managers on a truly inspired product team.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and implementing performant and scalable backend solutions using NodeJS
• Designing and developing code for single-page web applications using JavaScript/Typescript frameworks (we use ReactJS and Redux)
• Building API endpoints using REST and/or GraphQL
• Working closely with Designers and Product Managers to create responsive and accessible product experiences for teachers and students
• Refactoring older interfaces into modern user interfaces with an emphasis on UX
• Conducting code reviews, sharing of expertise, and mentoring of junior developers
• Maintaining a high standard of code quality, including a variety of test coverage
• Refactoring and modernizing legacy code/architecture into newer technologies (e.g. Docker, GraphQL, ElasticSearch)
• Planning and improving automation, workflows, and build processes (e.g. CI/CD, Webpack, Lerna, Babel, etc.)

You

You’ll need to be proficient with the following technologies and practices. We do this stuff all day long:

• 5+ years developing web applications
• 3+ years building scalable and performant back-end services (we use Node.js and some Python)
• 3+ years building web applications using JavaScript frameworks (we use ReactJS)
• Proficient writing clean, performant code using JavaScript/TypeScript
• Proficient working with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Up-to-date with the latest web standards, trends and technologies
• Expertise with source code best practices (Git and GitHub workflow)

What You Can Expect From Us

• At Showbie be 100% yourself. We like it that way. We welcome all team members (and candidates) and celebrate your diverse voice. Regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious belief, or status, we want to meet you!
• Remote-first forever; considering a big life change? Want to try working from another country? We will work with you to allow you to work from wherever.
• The autonomy to make decisions and execute them. We’re growing, but we’re a small team. Everything you do makes a difference and your input will always be celebrated.
• Transparency. You will always be kept up to date on the company strategy through monthly town halls.
• If you’re in the area, we have a beautiful comfy office located in central downtown Edmonton (close to great restaurants, cafes, and public transit). Includes weekly SPUD deliveries, a kick-ass espresso machine, ping-pong and foosball, and lots of board games.
• We offer a flexible work environment. Work from the office, or from home, or any combination of the two. Because sometimes you do your best work in your slippers.
• We value work-life balance. When we’re at work we’re excited and focused on building a great product. We also know that going “home” (or simply closing your laptop) and not working weekends or Holidays makes us even more excited to come to work and do great things.
• While we take government holidays off, if they aren’t ones that align with your personal or cultural beliefs, we have a swapping program that ensures you get the days that work best for you.
• Casual afternoon socials, monthly team events, hackathons, awesome Holiday parties, and a team that actually likes to hang out with one another.
• Extended health benefits (including eye care, massages, physiotherapy, and mental health supports) and a Health and Wellness Spending Account.
• Minimum three weeks vacation plus a week of flex time and time off during December Holidays.

Check out our Work at Showbie page to learn a little bit about our company culture and the benefits we offer to our team. We pride ourselves on a company culture that values the whole you. We like to have fun as much as we like to work.

This role is based in: Canada with the option to work 100% remotely.

The proposed salary range for this role is: $90,000-$110,000

Don’t meet all the expectations, or experience requirements listed here? Please apply anyways! We are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please just let us know.