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We at StudyPad are a team of passionate, hard working and slightly nerdy people who are going to change the way an entire generation of kids learns. We believe that satisfaction comes down to being passionate about your work and teaming up with like minded people in a high octane work environment. Working at StudyPad offers you a chance to think about innovative, out-of-the-box and cutting edge challenges every day. Everyone has a voice and a chance to innovate. If you’d like to be a part of our mission, join us. We’ve only just begun.
Current Openings
Engineering
- Implement and test our core client experience on iOS
- Push the limits of WebKit on mobile devices with HTML5 and other new/emerging web technologies
- Interface with the design team to bring their user experience designs to life
Skills & Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field
- iPhone/Mac development experience: you’ve built some really great apps
- Proficiency programming in C/C++
- Experience with WebKit development would be a plus
- Design, prototype and implement web frontend using JavaScript and HTML5 technologies
- Design and develop libraries and frameworks for web applications
- Ensure the reliability, scalability and efficiency of the web frontend
- Code primarily in JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Conduct design and code reviews
- Work in a dynamic team oriented environment using agile methodologies
Skills & Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
- Strong interest in product and user interface design
- Experience developing in JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Experience developing with HTML5, CSS3 and related extensions a plus
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new ideas
Young vivacious company seeks passionate coders with demonstrable experience in Ruby on Rails & Amazon web services. You should have incredible development skills and the ability to translate them in to elegant, scalable code. Most importantly you should have a mind-set to work well in a small, highly agile, highly motivated, fast-growth start-up environment. We prefer interviewing young, self-made geeks who are pro-active and passionate about RoR & web in general.
Desired Skills & Experience
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering
- At least 2-4 years relevant work experience.
Technical Skills
- Excellent knowledge of Ruby & Ruby on Rails
- Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
- Expert level experience with Database schema design, and SQL (Replication, monitoring etc.)
- Good knowledge of Javascript and jQuery or other JS frameworks
- Knowledge of HTML5 , CSS3.
- Knowledge of software development best practices (TDD / BDD etc.)
- Expert level of experience in RoR-testing frameworks (Cucumber, RSpec, Selenium)
- Passion for troubleshooting, performance and benchmarking.
- Experience of Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3 etc.)
- Knowledge of Web Servers (Apache, Nginx, Passenger etc.)
- Knowledge of Deployment tools like (Chef, Capistrano, Moonshine)
- Experience in managing high traffic websites & scaling them (Load balancers, memcached, Nagios, Monit etc.)
- Web Site Optimizations (CSS Sprites, Running tools like YSlow, CDN, Firebug etc.)
- Cron, Background Daemons
- Good knowledge of Unix based systems
Additional Skills
- Proficiency with Node.js
- Experience building social products (FB Connect, twitter/Google+/LinkedIn APIs)
- Involvement in and contributions to the Rails community; references and coding samples are necessary
- Ability to blog about our work, developments, latest web technologies.
- Experience in Sending emails on a large scale & managing replies / bounces. (preferably through Amazon SES)
Educational Content
- Develop content modules through scoping, proofing reading and working closely with US State Standards
- Developing atomic content modules, which can be mastered individually
- Finding opportunities to build interactive manipulative(s) enhancing understanding
Skills & Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree
- Subject matter expertise in Math or English
- Excellent attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Experience in instructional design or pedagogy
Design
- Design easy-to-use, beautiful user experiences and interfaces for mobile apps
- Contribute to the visualization of innovative apps through white boarding, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes and GUI elements with frequent iteration and evolution of design solutions
- Engage with our team of developers to collaborate and iterate in fast-paced design-build cycles—experience w/version control systems a plus
- Work closely with management and design to gauge the feasibility of proposed designs and ensure that they support the business requirements
Skills & Requirements
- Real world design experience—mobile user experience designer, or similar role designing mobile device or web apps
- Strong design background with samples of work demonstrating experience creating exceptional user-centered mobile applications or rich internet
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and ability to gracefully defend your design decisions
- Experience with design tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. to create interactions flows, wireframes, low-fidelity mockups and high-fidelity screen level design
- Bonus: Bachelor’s degree in CS, design, human-computer interaction (HCI)
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