# The short version ⏳{linebreak}{linebreak}**Mission:** Enhance the way the world learns.{linebreak}{linebreak}**Why:** Learning infrastructure should focus on community, collaboration, conversation - not on being a digital file cabinet 🗄️. {linebreak}{linebreak}**Who:** Humble, curious and builder-mentality. 7+ years of full-stack development.{linebreak}{linebreak}**How:** React, React-Native, microservices in Node.js, Docker, AWS, Redux, Mongo.{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}# What is [Aula](https://aula.education)? 🐝{linebreak}{linebreak}Aula is a remote-first 40-person team from 12 nationalities building a communication platform for education. Think ‘Slack for Education’.{linebreak}{linebreak}Powered by an ecosystem of integrations, Aula is the foundational layer in the university tech stack that shapes a whole industry.{linebreak}{linebreak}We built Aula because we believe digital infrastructure should encourage community and participation-based learning.{linebreak}{linebreak}We’re backed by people like the founder of Unity, CTO at Eventbrite, a co-founder of Zendesk, a co-founder of JustEat and world-class VCs like Project A, BrightEye and Sunstone.{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}# Engineering @ Aula 🏔️{linebreak}{linebreak}## What we're building{linebreak}{linebreak}Aula is a conversational platform for education.{linebreak}To get a deeper sense of what that means and how that can foster engaging learning experiences, read more here:{linebreak}[Education starts with conversation: how we designed Aula](https://blog.aula.education/education-starts-with-conversation-how-we-designed-aula-126bc1fa8706){linebreak}{linebreak}## Our tech stack{linebreak}{linebreak}A 10 min read from our CTO Oliver: [Bringing educational infrastructure into the 21st century - the stack](https://blog.aula.education/bringing-educational-infrastructure-into-the-21st-century-the-stack-be66b1a743c0){linebreak}{linebreak}## Engineering challenges we're working on{linebreak}- Building frontend applications that deliver a seamless campus experience across devices (web, mobile, desktop){linebreak}- Creating and maintaining the best infrastructure to deliver educational content and communication in real time.{linebreak}- Developing a powerful editor perfectly tailored for the creation of educational material and in-campus communication {linebreak}{linebreak}## [Product principles](https://blog.aula.education/product-principles-at-aula-398d1a2aa23f?source=collection_home---4------0---------------------){linebreak}- Engagement first.{linebreak}- Enable educators to create the most engaging learning experiences.{linebreak}- Never more than 1 click away from human interaction.{linebreak}{linebreak}## Who we're building for {linebreak}We're currently building for educators and students at universities. See what that means here:{linebreak}[Aula Personas](https://www.notion.so/e94ea2d2ca974d40ba4ae07638dcd459){linebreak}{linebreak}## How our users benefit{linebreak}{linebreak}-**Students:**Aula means less one-way communication from the teacher, more collaboration with fellow students and easier access to student services like the welfare team. We aim to give every single student the sense of being part of their university’s community.{linebreak}{linebreak}-**Educators**: Aula means connecting with every student in your class and creating a truly engaging learning experience in a welcoming atmosphere.{linebreak}{linebreak}-**Universities**: Aula is a digital campus where the sense of belonging lowers student dropout rates and enables a move of focus from physical building to crafting distributed student experiences. {linebreak}{linebreak}[Here are some educators describing Aula in one word](https://cl.ly/b56b4d0ab0dd){linebreak}{linebreak}## How our development team will look in 12 months{linebreak}Each product area will be led by a duo of a tech lead and a product manager, supported by full-stack contributors and tech leads on cross-platform areas like UI.{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}# Responsibilities{linebreak} We’re looking for a seasoned full-stack engineer to build features across the entire stack (front-end, back-end, mobile) and challenge our thinking on architecture. {linebreak}{linebreak}**Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll be working on:**{linebreak}{linebreak}- Be part of leading a high-performing and inclusive team: inspiring team members, set priorities and own results{linebreak}- Building backend microservices{linebreak}- Pushing our thinking on core architecture choices{linebreak}- Working directly with Adrian, CPO and product designers, to build, maintain and improve slick user interfaces across devices{linebreak}- Switching between different apps and devices (web, desktop, iOS, Android){linebreak}- Improving and maintaining our distributed architecture{linebreak}- Contributing to building a collaborative, productive and friendly remote workplace. {linebreak}{linebreak}# Requirements{linebreak}## We’d love to hear from you if… 🔍{linebreak}{linebreak}**You’re are the kind of person who**{linebreak}{linebreak}- Wants to foster a culture of no-ego team players who put the product first.{linebreak}- Adds another perspective to our team - for example, engineers who are women, transgender or identify as non-binary.{linebreak}- Thrives in caring and direct feedback environments.{linebreak}- Appreciates the value of diverse and inclusive teams.{linebreak}- Can arrange a working day with 4 hours of overlap with the workday in GMT.{linebreak}- Is excited to explore the world of remote working.{linebreak}- Consider yourself transparent, reliable and considerate.{linebreak}- Wants to join a 40-person startup journey with all the ups and downs.{linebreak}{linebreak}**You’ve done some of these things…**{linebreak}{linebreak}- Worked on both front-end and back-end, ideally 7+ years.{linebreak}- You have experience with React - unless you have significant Javascript experience with other libraries.{linebreak}- You have experience iterating on products from end-to-end (full feature).{linebreak}- Been part of excellent engineering teams as they scaled beyond 10 people.{linebreak}{linebreak}## Why join Aula? 🥕{linebreak}{linebreak}### Who we are 👋{linebreak}{linebreak}We are a bunch of curious and silly-ambitious people who have set out to do our lives’ work. {linebreak}{linebreak}.png){linebreak}{linebreak}### How we work remotely{linebreak}{linebreak}We put a lot of care and thought into building a remote workplace full of collaboration, belonging and feedback.{linebreak}{linebreak}**We are building a product that fosters community and knowledge sharing in education, so we, of course ,eat our own dog food. 🐶**{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}### Remote lunch 🍕{linebreak}{linebreak}Every fortnight, we all grab a meal and meet on a Zoom link. Someone on the team volunteers to talk about something outside of work that they care about - from board games, to being a classroom teacher to bio-hacking. {linebreak}{linebreak}### Onboarding 👋{linebreak}{linebreak}Thinking carefully about onboarding is crucial in distributed teams. We've carefully planned and iterated on an onboarding that quickly equips you with the technical knowledge, remote friendships and tips and tricks you need to feel at home and do your best work at Aula.{linebreak}{linebreak}### How we think about remote 📱{linebreak}{linebreak}We see remote work as a creative constraint that forces us to think about what the ideal workplace looks like:{linebreak}{linebreak}> When 'mobile' became important, their small screens forced product managers, designers and engineers to rethink user interfaces - to remove clutter. This ended up affecting how people built desktop web pages. In the same way, remote work forces us to rethink work in a way that we think many standard office-based workplace could benefit from.{linebreak}{linebreak}### Benefits{linebreak}-**Personal development is part of being 'a high performer'.**You're supported in, and accountable for, your personal growth. You set the direction.{linebreak}-**Shared ownership:**Joining the Aula journey means you will own part of the company.{linebreak}-**Workspace**: Remote doesn't mean you have to work at home.{linebreak}-**Technology:**Get hooked up with the technology you need to do your best work.{linebreak}-**Free books:**Whatever you want to read.{linebreak}-**Family leave:**We offer enhanced family leave and pay - and a commitment to open, continuous communication.{linebreak}-**Travel stipends:**Go meet your colleagues.{linebreak}-**Flexible working:**We’re flexible about when and where you work as long as you have 4 hours of overlap with the workday in GMT.{linebreak}-**Company retreats**: Every 6 months, we meet up to connect, talk about big ideas and have fun.

# Company Description{linebreak}Alacrity is a well funded early-stage startup founded by seasoned legal, finance and procurement professionals. Our mission is to create technologies which enhance the relationship between corporates and law firms to improve service delivery, reduce costs and manage relationships more efficiently. The legal industry is changing rapidly and we’re excited to help.{linebreak}{linebreak}This is both a remote or a local opportunity, we are located in Moorgate, London.{linebreak}{linebreak}**Recruiters, Agents and agencies**: Please do not email us to pitch your services, we are not interested. We mark all such emails as**SPAM**on google email for business.{linebreak}{linebreak}# Job Description{linebreak}{linebreak}Alacrity is looking to hire a senior, self-driven engineer on a permanent, full-time basis. We are at the first stages of building our product, about to release the first iteration of our MVP so this is a unique opportunity to join early on and impact the direction of the product. You will be working with our seasoned CTO, getting well defined and sourced tasks on state of the art technologies and methodologies.{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}# Responsibilities{linebreak} At Alacrity, our primary concern in engineering is security. We go to great lengths to provide a secure and robust product to our clients. Therefore the candidate must have a strong understanding of how security applies to every aspect of implementation and how we operate.{linebreak}{linebreak}We are looking for an engineer to primarily work on product but there are a lot to be done on the infrastructure as well so if you are not already up to speed with working with AWS you need to have a big appetite to learn about it. {linebreak}{linebreak}# Requirements{linebreak}# About you{linebreak}* You get your kicks from getting things done and deployed to users.{linebreak}* You honor your craft and are hungry to learn new skills and improve your existing ones.{linebreak}* You know and appreciate automated testing, clean code, and continuous deployment.{linebreak}* You understand that documentation is doing your future self a favor and you love helping yourself.{linebreak}* You are fluent with devops and can create and manage clusters of services on most cloud platforms.{linebreak}* You want to work at a startup with a reasonable and sane working environment.{linebreak}* You are in a timezone with a maximum difference of 3 hours from UK.{linebreak}{linebreak}# The Recruitment Process{linebreak}{linebreak}1. Send us your application. We will do our best to respond within 48 hours.{linebreak}2. Have a 30-minute initial call. This interview is non-technical in nature.{linebreak}3. Solve a small offline exercise at your convenience.{linebreak}4. Have a technical interview with our lead platform engineer and CTO discussing your exercise and chatting about your ambitions and motivations.{linebreak}5. Have a final chat with our co-founders.{linebreak}{linebreak}{linebreak}# Alacrity’s Stack{linebreak}{linebreak}* Node.js{linebreak}* GraphQL with Apollo{linebreak}* ReactJS with Apollo{linebreak}* Postgres{linebreak}* AWS{linebreak} {linebreak}{linebreak}#Location{linebreak}- ±3 hours from London (GMT)

SUPERFORMULA is a modern digital product studio. We craft world-class products through experience, design, and engineering for top brands around the world. {linebreak}{linebreak}We are seeking a full-time NodeJS engineer with experience building high-volume and production ready applications. This is a high visibility product team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience in the hospitality industry. You will be managing existing production services as well as working to create new products in this space. {linebreak}{linebreak}Job can be remote or in Portland, Seattle, or LA.{linebreak}{linebreak}# Responsibilities{linebreak} * Bachelors / Master’s Degree in Computer Science or real-world experience{linebreak}* 3-7 years professional experience in software development{linebreak}* Strong proficiency with JavaScript{linebreak}* Strong and proven experience with NodeJS{linebreak}* Experience building serverless API's using NodeJS{linebreak}* Track record of being tream player and performing peer code reviews{linebreak}* Applied knowledge of event-driven and microservices architectures; understanding asynchronous programming environments{linebreak}* Experience with implementing run-time architecture services(caching,logging, etc.){linebreak}* Experience runtime debugging in production environments{linebreak}* Strong proficiency working with NoSQL data stores and RDMS{linebreak}* Experience using Docker containers{linebreak}* Experience working in AWS is a bonus {linebreak}{linebreak}#Location{linebreak}- United States *West Coast preferred*

Digication is looking for a motivated and experienced QA engineer to help grow our test automation efforts (using NodeJs, React & Puppeteer) across the entire Digication platform. This is a new key position, so your efforts will have a noticeable impact to our product which makes a difference for students at thousands of schools and colleges.{linebreak}# About your skills{linebreak}* 5+ years experience in QA automation and creation of test data sets{linebreak}* 5+ years experience in testing Restful APIs and frontend UIs, ideally implemented with React & Redux{linebreak}* familiar with test runners like Jest or mocha, and testing utilities like chai, Enzyme or React's TestUtils{linebreak}* write End-To-End tests in Node.js with any Webdriver-based UI framework, like Puppeteer, WebdriverIO or nightwatch{linebreak}* first experience with cloud testing providers such as Browerstack or SauceLabs{linebreak}* Excellent knowledge of how web applications work including usability, accessibility and security{linebreak}* Strong problem solving skills with a creative approach{linebreak}* Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse QA and testing techniques{linebreak}# About your responsibilities:{linebreak}* Automate, Automate, Automate!{linebreak}* Ensure that all feature deliverables meet quality objectives{linebreak}* Build effective test cases that are used for manual and automation testing{linebreak}* Diagnose, track and clearly document defects found{linebreak}* Work together with engineers, product owners and customer service to identify risks, understand how new features should be tested, and then engage them in contributing automated tests{linebreak}# Perks at Digication{linebreak}* Work wherever you want. If you want to move, travel, experience the world, do it while having a full time job with us.{linebreak}* There is one group meeting a day and one once a week. Otherwise you work at your own pace. We connect via Slack and Zoom, and use github pull requests for code review.{linebreak}* We will get you whatever computer / phone / tablet you see fit.{linebreak}* Health / Dental / 401k (depends on your location){linebreak}* Last and not least, you get to work on a product that makes a difference for students at thousands of schools and colleges. See what students say about us: [Student Voices](https://www.digication.com/index.html#studentvoices)