Tynker is the #1 kids coding platform on the market, designed to teach children computational learning and programming skills and to become Makers in a fun and imaginative way. Tynker’s solutions have reached over 60 million kids to date and are used for fun learning at home, as standardized curriculum in over 100,000 K-12 schools and for STEM and coding camps and after-school programs. Tynker’s range of offerings serve early learners all the way through advanced high school programmers. We are looking for a strong full-stack developer to lead the development of our educational platform that revolutionizes the way schools use technology. As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer you’ll be responsible for building reusable frameworks, creating scalable district-level tools, refining our metrics and data-collection architecture, and constantly scaling our services to support growth. Join a dynamic team of developers to come up with new and stimulating ways to engage young learners to get creative with code! Primary Tasks - Create awesome experiences for young coders - Write efficient back-end code that handles millions of users - Define data models to support the user experience across multiple platforms - Design elegant APIs to power our suite of apps - Iterate and improve experiences periodically based on feedback - Perform data engineering tasks to support our machine learning efforts Requirements - BS/MS degree in Computer Science - 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining large scale web applications (100K+ users) - Full grasp of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX-based JSON/XML web services - Must be comfortable using frameworks like Angular, Foundation, Bootstrap, React and modern design patterns such as - Must be comfortable with using PHP, Mongo, and other back-end technologies on LAMP and MEAN stacks - Must be able to quickly adapt and learn to work within an unfamiliar codebase - Must be familiar with various design and architectural patterns - Should have experience consuming and designing creating RESTful APIs - Should understand modern front-end architectures and be able to modify JavaScript code - Demonstrated ability to be self-driven and work with minimal supervision - Strong object oriented fundamentals preferred If interested, please send your resume to jobs AT tynker.com.