Senior Fullstack Developer at Litnerd

Litnerd Engineering Org Overview.

Eng topology chart: https://www.figma.com/file/6rFlomXiaKyE4pVQ9O7Qod/engineering-topology

Litnerd’s mission is to inspire young people to fall in love with reading. We provide programs for students and teachers that make reading (and learning in general) fun. We do this by bringing books to life by reenacting our books as if you are watching your favorite TV show. 1 in 8 children in America grow up without learning how to read. 41% of 4th grade students are reading at a grade 1 level. In other words we are failing nearly half of our nation’s students before they ever graduate elementary school. Furthermore decline in literacy and reading proficiency increases amongst Title 1 schools socio-economically disadvantaged communities. By joining our team you will be part of our mission to change that!

Litnerd is a contracted vendor with the largest education district in America. Our program is part of in-classroom education and designated school reading time. We have been growing aggressively at 60% MoM and have served over 30000 students across schools.

Technology

As a member of the Engineering team you'll be at the center of product innovation empowering the next generation of readers. We embrace software design best practices taking code quality and web standards seriously. Litnerd runs a modern fully-typed stack using technologies like Typescript React Node.js Postgres Redis and GraphQL.

What you’ll do:Build and improve on user-facing products such as our Book Reader Live Interaction and other classroom management toolsBuild reliable backend services that power our web application and mobile appsCreate admin tools to help us scale managing processes and workflows including onboarding schools and scheduling live sessionsIntegrate with cloud services/APIs (Zoom Auth0)Ensure a low-friction experience for our users

Build and maintain platform features such as:Engineering infrastructure (databases servers data pipelines) to keep up with our growing userbaseCI/CD pipelines to ensure product development moves at a rapid paceAutomate and scale notifications such as email and SMS

What we’re looking for:Experience with React Node.JS NestJS Typescript (or other typed languages)Experience building testing and deploying web applications in production environmentsUnderstanding of systems-level programs (bash git)Experience with functional programming domain-driven designA passion for thoughtful engineering thorough testing and a deep sense of ownership over products and code shippedSelf-starters who excel in a fast-paced startup environment

Front-endUnderstanding of modern browser features (web workers local storage)Understanding of web best practices including accessibilityExperience testing code via unit tests and integration tests both locally and in CI/CD environments

BackendUnderstanding of relational databases (Postgres) and migrations in production environmentsUnderstanding of in-memory and document-based data stores e.g. Redis DynamoDBExperience building and scaling low latency APIs

Platform / Dev-ops

Experience with monitoring and logging in production applicationsExperience with serverless concepts FaaS k8sExperience developing and maintaining data processing pipelines

Data / BI

Data modeling experience with relational and non-relational databasesWork with stakeholders to create analytics charts dashboardsCollect and process analytics data from web propertiesDeep understanding of SQL PythonExperience developing and maintaining data processing pipelines