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Are you passionate about improving educational opportunities for students everywhere? Are you curious about new technologies and do you experiment with them constantly? Do you like start-up and fast-growing environments?
Our well-funded, fast growing education technology start-up is looking for a front-end developer to help create beautiful, functional, and intuitive experiences for our users. This is an excellent opportunity if you are a software engineer who wants to be part of a small flexible team, takes total ownership of your code, and wants to make a difference. You will play a key role in building LearnZillion’s technology platform and shaping its future. You will also work closely with founders and senior members.
You should be creative, focused and technically skilled. You should learn new technologies fast and write clean object-oriented code regardless of the programming language you use.
The Company
LearnZillion is a social enterprise founded by two former teachers. We provide a learning platform that helps teachers and parents meet the educational needs of every student. We are building an online, collaborative, curricular platform with lessons, resources, assessments, and activities created by some of the country’s best teachers.
LearnZillion raised its initial funding through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Learn Capital, and others. LearnZillion is used by more than 100,000 teachers in school districts across the country.
Some of our mentions:
Our products
Our first generation product provides lessons, assessments and assignments aligned to Common Core Standards for teachers and students. These are offered via the web and native iOS & Android mobile applications. Our plan is to further develop the product with a vision of multi-tenant Software-as-service (SaaS) model for schools and organizations. We will also be creating premium offerings and new channels.
We presently use: Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.2, Postgres, Bootstrap CSS, jQuery, Backbone.js, Haml, HTML5 and other open source technologies for the web application and native iOS and Android development platforms for Mobile.
Key responsibilities
- Design and develop software for LearnZillion’s platform
- Create and improve user experience through jQuery, Javascript, SCSS/Compass CSS and HTML5 technologies
- Work on respective back-end to integrate your code seamlessly to the application
Qualifications
- Experience with and interest in developing highly interactive applications using Javascript, jQuery, HTML5, and CSS
- Strong knowledge or project experience in object-oriented technologies, particularly in web development frameworks like MVC
- Experience in developing end-to-end web applications
- Mobile applications development highly desired
- Bachelor’s degree (a master’s is a plus)
- Back-end experience in Ruby, Java, or PHP is a plus
- Experience in using design tools like Adobe CS is a plus
We encourage recent graduates and graduating seniors to apply. Please email techjobs at learnzillion dot com with your resume and a cover letter (one page maximum) describing your interest in the position and your best technology accomplishments to-date.
LearnZillion is an equal opportunity employer.
Are you passionate about improving educational opportunities for students everywhere? Are you curious about new technologies and do you experiment with them constantly? Do you like start-up and fast-growing environments?
Our well-funded, fast growing education technology start-up is looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to help us create essential tools for teachers, parents, and students. This is an excellent opportunity if you are a software engineer who wants to be part of a small flexible team, takes total ownership of your code, and wants to make a difference. You will play a key role in building LearnZillion’s technology platform and shaping its future. You will also work closely with founders and senior members.
You should be creative, focused and technically skilled. You should learn new technologies fast and write clean object-oriented code regardless of the programming language you use.
The Company
LearnZillion is a social enterprise founded by two former teachers. We provide a learning platform that helps teachers and parents meet the educational needs of every student. We are building an online, collaborative, curricular platform with lessons, resources, assessments, and activities created by some of the country’s best teachers.
LearnZillion raised its initial funding through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Learn Capital, and others. LearnZillion is used by more than 100,000 teachers in school districts across the country.
Some of our mentions:
Our products
Our first generation product provides lessons, assessments and assignments aligned to Common Core Standards for teachers and students. These are offered via the web and native iOS & Android mobile applications. Our plan is to further develop the product with a vision of multi-tenant Software-as-service (SaaS) model for schools and organizations. We will also be creating premium offerings and new channels.
We presently use: Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.2, Postgres, Bootstrap CSS, jQuery, Backbone.js, Haml, HTML5 and other open source technologies for the web application and native iOS and Android development platforms for Mobile.
Key responsibilities
- Design and develop software for LearnZillion’s platform
- Design and develop software to add impactful new features, scale our platform using Ruby, Rails, Postgres and Open Source technologies
- Work on some front-end development to integrate your code seamlessly to the application
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (a master’s is a plus)
- Strong knowledge or project experience in object-oriented technologies, particularly in MVC framework
- Experience in developing web applications using Ruby, Java, C++, or PHP-frameworks and databases MySQL, or Postgres in a Linux type environment
- Experience in API-centric, Web service, or Component based application development
- Interest in and experiment with Open Source technologies
- Experience in developing end-to-end web applications
- Experience in front-end development in jQuery, HTML5, CSS a plus
We encourage recent graduates and graduating seniors to apply. Please email techjobs at learnzillion dot com with your resume and a cover letter (one page maximum) describing your interest in the position and your best technology accomplishments to-date.
LearnZillion is an equal opportunity employer.
Are you passionate about improving educational opportunities for students everywhere? Are you curious about new technologies and do you experiment with them constantly? Do you like start-up and fast-growing environments?
Our well-funded, fast growing education technology start-up is looking for a mobile application developer (iOS or Android) to help us create essential tools for teachers, parents, and students. This is an excellent opportunity if you are a software engineer who wants to be part of a small flexible team, takes total ownership of your code, and wants to make a difference. You will play a key role in building LearnZillion’s technology platform and shaping its future. You will also work closely with founders and senior members.
You should be creative, focused and technically skilled. You should learn new technologies fast and write clean object-oriented code regardless of the programming language you use.
The Company
LearnZillion is a social enterprise founded by two former teachers. We provide a learning platform that helps teachers and parents meet the educational needs of every student. We are building an online, collaborative, curricular platform with lessons, resources, assessments, and activities created by some of the country’s best teachers.
LearnZillion raised its initial funding through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Learn Capital, and others. LearnZillion is used by more than 100,000 teachers in school districts across the country.
Some of our mentions:
Our products
Our first generation product provides lessons, assessments and assignments aligned to Common Core Standards for teachers and students. These are offered via the web and native iOS & Android mobile applications. Our plan is to further develop the product with a vision of multi-tenant Software-as-service (SaaS) model for schools and organizations. We will also be creating premium offerings and new channels.
We presently use: Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.2, Postgres, Bootstrap CSS, jQuery, Backbone.js, Haml, HTML5 and other open source technologies for the web application and native iOS and Android development platforms for Mobile.
Key responsibilities
- Design and develop software for iOS or Android
- Create and improve user experience on mobile devices
- Work with LearnZillion APIs to integrate with our backend for seamless user experiences
Qualifications
- Experience in developing highly interactive applications using Xcode/iOS or Android SDK
- Proficient in SDK language (Java/Objective C), CSS and JS
- Strong knowledge or project experience in object-oriented technologies, particularly in MVC framework
- Experience using other Mobile frameworks like PhoneGap, Appcelerator, SensaTouch, etc. is a plus
We encourage recent graduates and graduating seniors to apply. Please email techjobs at learnzillion dot com with your resume and a cover letter (one page maximum) describing your interest in the position and your best technology accomplishments to-date.
LearnZillion is an equal opportunity employer.
Are you passionate about improving educational opportunities for students everywhere? Are you curious about new technologies and do you experiment with them constantly? Do you like start-up and fast-growing environments?
Our well-funded, fast growing education technology start-up is looking for interns to help us create essential tools for teachers, parents, and students. This is an excellent opportunity if you are an undergraduate senior or junior who wants to be part of a small flexible team, takes total ownership of your code, and wants to make a difference. You will play a key role in building LearnZillion’s technology platform and shaping its future. You will also work closely with founders and senior members.
You should be creative, focused and technically skilled. You should learn new technologies fast and write clean object-oriented code regardless of the programming language you use.
The Company
LearnZillion is a social enterprise founded by two former teachers. We provide a learning platform that helps teachers and parents meet the educational needs of every student. We are building an online, collaborative, curricular platform with lessons, resources, assessments, and activities created by some of the country’s best teachers.
LearnZillion raised its initial funding through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Learn Capital, and others. LearnZillion is used by more than 100,000 teachers in school districts across the country.
Some of our mentions:
Our products
Our first generation product provides lessons, assessments and assignments aligned to Common Core Standards for teachers and students. These are offered via the web and native iOS & Android mobile applications. Our plan is to further develop the product with a vision of multi-tenant Software-as-service (SaaS) model for schools and organizations. We will also be creating premium offerings and new channels.
We presently use: Ruby 1.9.3, Rails 3.2, Postgres, Bootstrap CSS, jQuery, Backbone.js, Haml, HTML5 and other open source technologies for the web application and native iOS and Android development platforms for Mobile.
Key responsibilities
- Design and develop software for front-end (Haml, HTML5, CSS, Javascript) OR back-end (Ruby, Rails, Postgres)
- Learn new technologies and software development process
- Test-driven development and test automation
Qualifications
- Senior or junior in Computer Science or another technical field with a strong interest and coursework history in application development
- Familiarity with object-oriented concepts and programming
- Web development experience (or coursework) in any framework such as: Ruby, Java, PHP, etc.
We encourage recent graduates and graduating seniors to apply. Please email techjobs at learnzillion dot com with your resume and a cover letter (one page maximum) describing your interest in the position and your best technology accomplishments to-date.
LearnZillion is an equal opportunity employer.