Fullstack Developer

🌟 Join Us as an Full Stack Developer at Tutcart! 🌟

About Tutcart:

At Tutcart, we're on a mission to revolutionize education with cutting-edge technology. As an innovative edtech startup, we believe in the power of learning and are passionate about making education accessible to all.

Why Join Us?

• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Team Unity: Be part of a nurturing team that values teamwork and personal development.
• 🚀 We Grow, You Grow: Be part of a startup where your career development is a priority.
• 🎯 Exciting Challenges: Tackle diverse projects and tasks that offer opportunities for learning and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Full Stack Development: Contribute to the development of our platform using the MERN stack, Next.js, Redux, TypeScript, and other cutting-edge technologies.
• Architecture and Design: Assist in architectural decisions, focusing on scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Deployment and Launch: Basic understanding of AWS services. Support effective deployment strategies and assist in managing the launch of new features and updates.
• Optimization: Collaborate on platform performance improvements, user experience enhancements, and codebase efficiency.
• Integration: Assist in integrating third-party services and APIs to enhance platform functionality.
• Mobile Development: Support the maintenance of mobile applications using React Native, ensuring integration with our web platform and a consistent user experience across devices.
• Security: Contribute to implementing security measures to protect user data and maintain platform integrity.
• Version Control: Proficiency with GitHub or Bitbucket for code versioning, collaboration, and pull request workflows.
• Project Management Tools: Experience using Trello or Jira for task tracking, sprint planning, and project coordination, ensuring timely delivery of milestones.
• Innovation: Stay informed about the latest technologies and trends to support innovation and competitiveness.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer with at least 2-3 years of hands-on experience in both frontend and backend development.
• Solid proficiency in the MERN stack, Next.js, Redux, TypeScript, and related technologies.
• Takes the initiative to identify and tackle challenges independently. Possesses the intelligence and resourcefulness to work effectively without constant guidance.
• Interest in education technology and a desire to make a meaningful impact.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to be part of a dynamic and innovative startup.
• A supportive and inclusive work environment where your contributions will be valued.
• Engaging projects that have the potential to transform education globally.

Who Should Not Apply:

If you're not genuinely interested in our mission or unable to make a commitment to our team, please reconsider applying. We're seeking someone who is responsible, eager to learn, embrace the challenges of startup life, and contribute to building something impactful.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

• Responsible for design and architecture of functional prototypes and production ready systems
• Uses open source frameworks as appropriate Django Preferred
• Develops Python and JavaScript code as necessary
• Python development to support middleware for REST API
• Communicate technical concepts with trade offs, risks, and benefits
• Evaluate and resolve product related issues

• Demonstrable experience writing clean, thoughtfully crafted Python or PHP that scales
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS3
• Good understanding of REST API's and experience in building them.
• Experience on asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git / Mercurial / SVN
• Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance