Senior Backend Engineer

About Us:

MarcoPolo Learning is an award-winning developer of content, technology, and instructional support for early childhood education. Founded in 2013, MarcoPolo blends innovation with research and best-in-class service for schools across North America to promote classroom quality and family engagement.  MarcoPolo's World School is an Emmy-nominated app and is one of the top-rated educational apps in the app stores. The Polos, MarcoPolo's animated preschool TV series, teaches STEM and introduces children to the wonders of the world. MarcoPolo is backed by a number of prominent venture capital firms, family offices, strategic and private investors.

The Role:

We’re seeking a Full Stack Engineer to help us build the next major brand in early childhood education. You’ll join a small and nimble team to shape and grow our engineering culture and launch products that help early child teachers learn best practices in the profession and deliver fun and impactful educational content and experiences to children ages 3-7. 

As a full stack, you’ll touch everything in our stack: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Typescript, Angular, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Kibana, MySQL. 

This is a full-time, remote position. Preference given to candidates in a timezone within +/- 3 hours of San Francisco. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Develop and maintain clean, scalable, testable, and reusable code 
• Collaborate with product, marketing, educators, and leadership to design new features and tools
• Help create a culture of excellence by testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and participating in code reviews

You Have: 

• 3+ years of experience with most of the tools used in our stack (and the ability and interest to quickly pick up what you’ve never used before)
• Experience shipping in a production environment to end-users
• Preference to build and ship quickly to get customer feedback (no waterfalls, here)
• Comfortable learning new technologies and trying new things
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• A love for beautiful, delightful, and usable user experiences 
• Excited about building in children’s education and media

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401K plan with matching
• 15 days of paid vacation 
• Paid holidays and parental leave
• Family-friendly environment and culture that values work-life balance
• Access to learning and growth opportunities 
• Team and company off-sites and retreats in fun locations

The base salary range for this full-time position is $125,000 to $175,000 USD + stock options. Actual compensation offered will depend on location, work experience, education, and skill level. 

MarcoPolo Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.