Job Description

SMART is helping educators and businesses succeed all over the world. Our technology empowers teachers, students and teams to learn and collaborate in innovative ways, inspiring breakthroughs – from improved learning outcomes to moving businesses forward. Purpose of the position You will work with your front-end teammates to combine the art of design and the science of software development to improve our world-class applications with a focus on education. What would you be doing?

• Designing and building web products for use in classrooms around the world.
• Working closely with the User Experience team to design the User Experience and Interface.
• Working with other developers to architect and design the technical structure of our distributed highly available products.
• Evaluating and choosing new technologies and libraries to incorporate into our products.
• Writing and maintaining unit and integration tests to ensure our products meet our quality standards.
• Working closely with our test team to ensure automated testing has appropriate coverage.

Core Skills

• 4+ years using JavaScript and/or TypeScript to build interactive HTML interfaces using frameworks like Vue, React or Ember for distributed high availability web applications.
• 3+ years developing software using a cross-functional Agile approach.
• 2+ years building and releasing software using a continuous deployment pipeline to Google AppEngine and/or Amazon Web Services.
• An understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• A strong foundation in computer science, particularly data structures, concurrent programming, algorithms and distributed systems.
• Experience with Firebase is an asset.

Education and work experience

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience in software development.
• 2+ years experience as a senior or lead on a team.

Supervision

• This position has no direct reports.

Working conditions

• Can be fully remote within Canada or the United States.
• Candidates in Calgary, AB can optionally work in the office based. on SMART’s COVID-19 protocol.
• Collaborative working experience.
• Occasional travel may be required.

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