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ABOUT THIS POSITION
We build great learning experiences and we need more creators! Join us in developing the next generation of our APIs that will allow us to achieve aggressive growth while providing stellar educational moments to all of our students. You’ll jump in immediately and be designing solutions to meet the needs of our growing infrastructure.
ABOUT ACEABLE
Aceable is a mobile education platform that focuses on creating affordable, engaging and convenient educational content across all devices. Built by former teachers, NASA engineers, and those passionate about education, the Austin-based team is obsessed with helping people with life’s certification challenges. After launching its first mobile app to provide accredited driver’s ed courses, Aceable is now expanding into other verticals for required education. To date, Aceable touts more than 300,000 users and counting, as it continues to expand nationwide.
ABOUT YOUR NEW TEAM
Our Engineering Team tackles complex operational problems as a team. They’re proven developers, both from their pre-Aceable careers and from having created the “clean” code we use for our current platforms. At Aceable, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with a tight-knit group and help lay the framework for the expansion of our Engineering Department. We value programmers who get excited about the latest concepts but realize the importance of a stable and scalable environment. The team prides themselves on continually helping each other achieve their goals, both inside and outside of Aceable.
WHAT YOU'LL DO- Immediately, you’ll jump in and be designing solutions to meet the needs of our growing infrastructure. Here are some tasks you might achieve during a day at Aceable:
- Work with project managers, designers, and architects to build the best experiences for our students, while being confident enough to raise a flag when goals seem misaligned with technical opportunities.
- Spearhead key engineering features for both our core API and our internal tools API, collaborating with your teammates to deliver a well-documented and unit tested experience for our QA, Android, iOS, and Angular JS developers.
- Perform frequent refactors to improve the performance of our codebase, whether through new libraries or by gaining a deeper understanding of our business logic.
- Join in quarterly web development summits to keep our codebase relevant, well tested, and scalable as we add new learning verticals to our expanding app.
- Lead future junior developers on how to be an excellent programmer who can balance the challenges of large codebases while remaining humble and driven.
- Challenge new ideas and be open to being challenged.
- At Aceable, you are not your code.
- 5+ years of API Development
- 5+ years of Javascript
- 2+ years of Node.JS and Express
- 2+ years of MongoDB or other Document-Oriented Data Models
- Experience with JS Web Frameworks, HTML5, and Templating
- Strong background in RESTful APIs, form validation, user ACLs and API Security
- Working knowledge of document data model design and performance tuning
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment - no egos or lone wolves
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Passionate, high-achieving teammates excited to help you succeed and learn
- Our own space on the top floor of a downtown building
- A team meal every week and access to our fully stocked kitchen
- Transportation stipend
- Education stipend
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