React Native Developer

About CK-12 Foundation:

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 Bangalore office.

We have a strong education platform that has served 265+ million users, answered 2.33+ billion questions, and created 290,000+ customized FlexBooks. We are on an exciting journey to build an AI-powered Student Tutor and Teacher Assistant, shaping the next generation of learning platforms.

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

To achieve this ambitious vision, we are challenging the traditional education model and transforming it through technology. CK-12 is a non-profit organization, enabling us to experiment with bold ideas and truly focus on doing what’s right. We are backed by Vinod Khosla, a renowned technology venture capitalist.

At CK-12, you’ll work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative, and non-bureaucratic environment, alongside a small group of passionate individuals determined to disrupt education as we know it.

Technology is key to scaling education, and we deeply believe in it. Join us to build impactful solutions on our cloud-based (AWS), AI-first platform, delivering rich and interactive learning experiences.

If our mission, people, and technologies excite you—and you’re someone who challenges the status quo (no order-takers!)—we’d love to hear from you.

Products:

Flexi 2.0 – AI-powered Student Tutor

https://www.flexi.org/

AI-powered Teacher Assistant

https://www.ck12.org/pages/teacher-assistant/

Location

Bangalore (Office-based)

Basic Qualifications:

• Passion for creating simple, intuitive, and delightful web / mobile user experiences
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to research and evaluate web and mobile frameworks and UI patterns
• Experience designing for multiple screen sizes, performance constraints, and varying network conditions
• Comfortable working in Agile environments with rapid iterations
• Ability to create and review high-level and detailed designs
• Strong focus on code quality, best practices, and maintainable code with solid unit test coverage

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of overall experience
• Strong hands-on experience with either React.js (or a similar frontend framework) or mobile app frameworks such as Flutter or React Native.
• Strong inclination toward product ownership, with a focus on nurturing features based on how users actually use the product.
• Experience building and maintaining production-grade web or mobile applications
• Expert knowledge of object-oriented programming, design, and development
• Solid understanding of mobile application architecture, performance, and memory management
• Proficiency in Dart / JavaScript / TypeScript
• Experience consuming REST APIs and handling JSON
• Experience with responsive layouts and adaptive UI design
• Familiarity with UI patterns related to security, performance, and usability
• Experience using Git and mobile build/release pipelines

Good to Have:

• Experience with native mobile development (Android / iOS)
• Familiarity with CI/CD for mobile apps and app store deployments
• Experience working in distributed and Agile teams
• Performance optimization for scalable mobile applications
• Familiarity with LLMs (Large Language Models)
• Experience creating or maintaining mobile UI documentation or component libraries

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the marketing team to build high conversion landing pages. Maintain and improve our marketing codebase
• Contribute ideas and efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of the marketing workflows
• Write code using agile methods and tools. Plan, create, and execute (manual and automated) frontend tests.
• Staying up to date with current technologies and providing insights on cutting-edge software approaches, architectures, and vendors

Required Skills:

• Minimum 2-4 years of experience in Front-end development.
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap
• Good knowledge of Node.js and Rest APIs
• Experience in page speed optimization 
• Experience in writing responsive and cross-browser compatible frontend code
• Good understanding of the modern frontend ecosystem.
• Strong problem-solving skills. Willingness to learn and ability to flourish in a dynamic, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment
• You are a self-starter, capable of working independently.
• True love for technology and what you do. 
• Maniacal attention to detail. 

Good to have:

• Experience in WordPress theme development
• Understanding of basic technical SEO principles
• Knowledge of a frontend framework like Angular

As a web application developer, your job is to program frontend modules and applications. We are looking for someone with expertise and experience in designing, developing and testing web applications including new developments, enhancements, maintenance and support. The role involves continuous collaboration with team, partners.

Responsibility

• Building interactive consumer data from multiple systems and RESTfully abstract to the UI using React JS ( javascript and typescript)  through a Node.js backend
• Create Unit and Integration tests to ensure the quality of code
• Address and improve any technical issues
• Ability to translate Wireframes and PSD Designs into functional web apps
• Be responsive to change requests and feature requests
• Write code that is cross-platform and cross-device compatible
• Strong commitment to quality and delivery
• Collaborate well with engineers, and specialists to design and create advanced, elegant and efficient system

Requirements: 

• Experience creating front end applications using HTML, React JS
• Database – MongoDB, SQL
• Fluent knowledge of latest HTML/CSS standards and best practices
• Experience building Responsive websites for web, tablet and mobile device
• Obsession with lean, clean and organized code
• Solid Understanding of HTTP protocol and how server-side code is processed on the client
• Knowledge of the following will be considered as an advantage

Consumer Web Development Experience for High-Traffic, Public Facing web applications

Experience with cloud technologies also a plus

Creating Unit test cases

Typescript

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages
• Optimize applications for maximum speed
• Design mobile-based features
• Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability
• Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
• Write functional requirement documents and guides
• Create quality mockups and prototypes
• Ensure high quality graphic standards and brand consistency
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

Requirements:

• Minimum 1 year of work experience as a front end developer.
• Positive attitude, great energy, and a desire to learn more about web development
• Skills in troubleshooting and debugging
• A desire to keep current and use the most up-to-date best practices
• An understanding of testing and quality control
• Has a strong interest in design and technology.

• Responsible for development of new highly responsive, web-based user interface
• Construct visualizations that can depict vast amounts of data
• Work and collaborate with the rest of the engineering team
• Work with product team and graphic designers
• Learn and understand user interactions
• Develop a flexible and well-structured front-end architecture, along with the APIs to support it

Requirements and qualifications

• B.S Degree in Computer Science
• Experience with JavaScript
• Experience with REACT
• Experience with HTML / CSS
• Experience with REST API's
• Git knowledge is a plus
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in full project life cycle (including requirement analysis, system design, development, and support if required).
• Partner with Project Managers, Business Analysts, and other developers to plan project work by providing estimates, risk analysis, technical options.
• Support and work collaboratively with teams across areas of design, development, quality assurance, and operations.
• Help define the vision for a product, identify dead ends and routes with untapped potential.
• Attend meetings to discuss and demonstrate solutions at both a technical and business level.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of web application development experience using at least one of the following: Javascript, Web Components, Angular, Polymer, ReactJS, Redux, LitElement, Svelte, VueJS, or knockout.js. Web Components is used and preferred.
• Experience with SPA (Single Page Application) design and implementation
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/ and AJAX
• Experience working with a variety of APIs and RESTful interfaces
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Experience with Git
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured
• Intellectual curiosity and drive; self-starters will thrive in this position
• Passion for Technology: excitement for new technology, bleeding edge applications, and a positive attitude towards solving real world challenges

Desirable Skills

• SQL experience. PostGreSQL a plus.
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud environments is a plus.
• Knowledge JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, or BitBucket a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience working with databases and web applications in analytics, reporting or Business Intelligence is a plus.