UI Software Engineer

Passionate about education? Join us at CK-12 !!

CK-12 (www.ck12.org) 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 352+ Million users, have got over 2.88+ Billion questions answered, and have more than 350 thousand 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 than you ever 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 offerings

• 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/

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Frontend UI Developer (React)

Location: Bangalore

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 to provide intuitive user experiences on multiple devices.
• 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 5 years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with front-end frameworks like React, Redux, Webpack, and Lerna.
• Expert knowledge of Object Oriented Programming, design, and development.
• In-depth knowledge of browser internals and architecture.
• Expert knowledge of Object Oriented JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, CSS3 transitions and transformations, JSON, Web Services (REST), XML, and W3C standards.
• Experience with responsive web design, media queries, and delivering functionality that works across a range of client devices/browsers from desktops and laptops to mobile platforms.
• Experience with UI design patterns, security, performance, and usability.
• Familiarity with standard development tools like version control systems (Git) and build tools like Grunt.
• Adept at AI coding assistants, leveraging them beyond prompting.
• Working experience in skill and tool development and usage in AI coding tools.

Desired

• Working experience with ES6 and Node.js.
• Experience in a driven, distributed, and agile development environment.
• Experience with performance optimizations to deliver a great website experience to all users.
• Familiarity with Storybook for React or similar frameworks.

Job Description

• • Collaborate with developers and UI/UX engineers to build scalable web apps
• • Design, implement and manage large applications with video streaming and complex state and high-frequency data
• • Experiment with large data sets to find interesting and valuable ways to visualize the data
• • Build reusable, testable React components that can be used between projects
• • Contribute towards building the company’s coding culture.
• • Mentor, groom junior developers and participate in code reviews

Requirements

• • 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• • A deep understanding of JavaScript
• • React, Redux or other JS framework experience
• • HTML5, CSS/SASS, Restful APIs, HTTP
• • JEST or other testing experience
• • Experience with android app development
• • Experience with CI/CD
• • Experience with Mathjax/Latex
• • Experience with large scale video streaming
• • Understanding of i18n, A11Y
• • Excellent understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
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Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience in java.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e. g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript/Typescript, XML, jQuery)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Micro Services based architecture
• Experience with Angular 5 Angular 8 and/or experience with React JS
• Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e. g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e. g. Angular, React, Node.js )Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with databases (e. g. MySQL, PostgreSQL), web servers (e. g. Tomcat, Apache).
• Excellent communication and ability to lead a 5-10 member team

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the entire development process for the Internal IP (e.g. Quality Fusion)
• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Analyzing user requirements, envisioning system features and functionality.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable codes by setting expectations and features priorities throughout the development life cycle.
• Working with Senior leadership and stakeholders to present ideas and solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIsTest software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency in troubleshooting, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings.

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React JS Developer 

• 0-1 years of experience as a React JS developer. 
• Good Communication skills must. 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles 
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux) ● Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Experience with HTML,CSS, Bootstrap and UI Design 
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs 
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token ● Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools 
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc. 
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements 
• Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git} 

• Build, extend, and maintain reusable UI components that will be used across many applications.
• Develop best practices and guidelines for contributing UI and reusable components to a central component library.
• Perform installation of code releases and patches and write scripts or programs for IT applications.
• Work closely with our UX design team to ensure usable designs with a consistent look and feel.
• Maintain high-quality code and ensure best practices for UI development.
• Ensure designs follow Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• Work in a fast-paced agile environment partnering with software engineering teams.

Role

• Work as part of a small team to build React Native iOS / Android applications.
• Design, build and maintain excellent React Native applications with clean code.
• Implement pixel perfect UI's that match designs.
• Implement clean, modern, smooth animations and transitions that provide an excellent user experience.
• Integrate third-party API's.
• Developing new user-facing features using React Native.
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
• Translating designs and wire-frames into high-quality code
• Optimising components for maximum performance across a vast array of android and ios devices.
• Release applications to IOS and Google Play stores.
• Work with native modules when required.

Skills

• Strong proficiency in React Js, React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, Object Oriented Programming - 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native
• Deep knowledge of component state management experience (specifically in React Native)
• Familiarity with native build tools, like XCode, Gradle
• Good understanding of Redux
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for bench-marking and optimisation