Angular Developer

CK-12 is on the lookout for talented, creative, and dedicated people to join our mission to provide great education to students around the world. We are looking for candidates to join our office in Bangalore.

We have a strong education platform that has served over 265+ million users, has got over 2.33+ billion questions answered, and more than 290,000 customized Flexbooks. We have embarked on an exciting journey to build an AI-powered student tutor and Teacher Assistant to build the next generation of learning platforms.

About CK-12 Foundation:

CK-12’s mission is to provide free access to open-source content and technology tools that empower students as well as teachers to enhance and experiment with different learning styles, resources, levels of competence, and circumstances.

To achieve this noble and ambitious vision, we at CK-12 are challenging the traditional model of education to transform it dramatically. Technology has opened up lots of opportunities to revolutionize education for the benefit of students, teachers, and parents.

We have chosen to be non-profit so that we can effectively realize our mission and do the right thing! It also provides us with the ability to experiment with big and bold ideas. CK-12 is backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.

At CK-12, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative, and non-bureaucratic environment where you will get a lot of cool things done you never imagined! We are a small group of passionate folks who are determined to disrupt the current form of education.

Technology is key to scale education and we deeply believe in it. Come develop great solutions on our cloud-based (AWS) and AI-first platform delivering rich and interactive content.

Does our mission, people and technologies excite you? If the answer is YES! and you are a great technologist who will challenge status-quo (no order takers please!) by innovating, please come join us! Together, we will change the world!

Check out our latest product offering: Introducing Flexi 2.0

• Flexi, our AI-powered Student Tutor – https://www.flexi.org/
• AI-powered Teacher Assistant – https://www.ck12.org/pages/teacher-assistant/

Location: Bangalore Office

Position: Frontend UI Developer (React)

Basic:

• Passion for creating great user experiences that are simple and intuitive
• Good understanding of CS fundamental algorithms and Data Structures
• Great problem solver
• Understands and researches different front-end frameworks and patterns to implement great user interfaces
• Implements solutions keeping in mind the user experience, multi-devices, performance across devices, and bandwidths
• Ability to work in an Agile environment with rapid iterations
• Creates and reviews high-level designs
• Creates detailed designs from high-level designs and reviews designs of other team members
• A Code Craftsman who follows the best software development and coding practices delivering understandable and maintainable code with thorough unit test coverage

Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 2 years of experience
• Hands-on with frameworks like React, Redux, Backbone, Webpack, Lerna
• Expert knowledge of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), design, and development
• In-depth knowledge of browser internals and architecture
• Expert in JS (OOJS), HTML5, CSS3, JSON, REST, XML, W3C standards
• Experience with responsive web design & frameworks media queries
• Experience with UI patterns (security, performance, usability)
• Familiar with version control systems (Git/Subversion) & build tools like Grunt

Desired:

• Experience with ES6, Node.js
• Worked in distributed/agile environments
• Performance optimization for scalable web apps
• Familiarity with LLMs (Large Language Models)
• Familiarity with Storybook (React) or similar frameworks

• Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in front-end development with a strong focus on React.js.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries.
• React Expertise: Deep understanding of React.js and its core principles, including hooks, context API, and state management.
• Tools: Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), build tools (e.g., Webpack), and testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with: Knowledge of TypeScript, Redux, and modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Design: Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and responsive design.
• Blockchain: Understanding of blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency concepts is a plus.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Extreme CSS skills
• Experience with ReactJS or NextJS is a MUST
• Strong communication skills
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean and efficient code.
• Sound knowledge of clean code, no unused code, optimized code and more.
• Always starting with a document and then implementing in a systematic and organized manner
• Past experience as a frontend developer building modern JavaScript-based web applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 5 years experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Collaborate with engineering, design and product teams to build and ship new features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product using Agile methodologies.
• Maintain and improve web applications. Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Self-contribution & able to manage and execute work through team members.
• Developing features to enhance the user experience.
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Create proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility of proposed solution
• Continuously discover, evaluate and learn new technologies to stay at the forefront of technology innovation
• Write good quality, modular, reusable, well documented, unit-tested code.

• You have 4-8 years of experience  in Frontend for web based applications with strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Frameworks like Angular  or React
• You love building things, and have built complex consumer web applications in the past.
• You have a sound understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• You are an expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• You are an expert in at least one JavaScript framework, such as Angular 7+, React or Vue.
• You understand how website-backend interacts with frontend as well as external APIs.
• You enjoy mentoring others and helping them solve challenging problems.

JavaScript

- ReactJS

- Redux-Saga

- ES6 (or TypeScript) syntax

- Good problem-solving

- Good debugging

Good to have :

- TypeScript experience

- Material UI experience

- JEST knowledge

- Git and Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket experience