Position: Full-Stack Engineer (React/Redux/Python)
Company: Virtido
Experience required: 1y
Category: JavaScript
English level: upper
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

**About Virtido**
Virtido is an entrepreneurial and innovative IT company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. We realize ideas and projects - from strategic concept to technical implementation closely alongside our dynamic clients with a strong focus on start-up or fast-growing companies. Since inception in 2015, we have grown rapidly to currently 120+ professionals in Switzerland and Western-Ukraine.


**Job Description**
We are looking for a full-stack developer that will help our client to bring their educational web technology to the next level. You'll be working with a distributed team (US, Switzerland, and Ukraine; we have an office in Kyiv, and you’re encouraged to come by!). We're looking for somebody to start immediately.


**About Product**
Our client enables teachers to create questions on an internet-connected device (mobile phone, tablet, PC/notebook), push it to all student devices and track the performance of a class immediately in a class session. The teacher receives valuable information about the individual student's performance and can intervene as deemed appropriate, thereby improving the overall learning progress of the class. By answering the questions, all students are fully engaged, which can also be analyzed after class and even over time to measure a single student's or the entire class's development. The product is trusted by more than 95,000 teachers and various clients (schools / businesses) globally.


**Responsibilities**
- Implement new features and user interfaces of the client's Apps for students and teachers;
- Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications;
- Create data models and implement business logic in the backend;
- Collaborate with Product and Graphic Designers to deliver compelling user-facing products;
- Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of our SCRUM team;
- Launch, iterate and make a difference. Provide full-stack coding expertise, and be ready to make the product better for our users.


**Must-Haves**
- Experience with React, Redux, REST APIs;
- 1+ years of JavaScript experience and strong knowledge of ES6 or Typescript;
- 1+ years of Python experience.


**Nice to have**
- Experience in building responsive mobile-first web application;
- Strong sense of web design and fundamentals of user experience;
- Experience with implementing REST APIs in django;
- Interest in running scalable and reliable web applications.


**Stack**
- React, Redux, Redux Saga, TypeScript;
- HTML, SCSS, JSS;
- Webpack;
- Python, Django (templates, rest framework), Postgres;
- Third-parties: Auth0, Pusher, Algolia, Cloudinary, Kubernetes.



**Compensation & Location**
Market-oriented salary. Choice of work place (office, home) according to the need and situation (taking into account the pandemic). We have several teammates in Kyiv partly working from home and our office.


**Values**
Curiosity - Always continue to experiment and learn. We have to focus on our client, the teacher. We question critically, we listen carefully and experiment creatively with new ideas. If you love to understand the unknown, then continue, because you now know 25% of our values.

Impact - Always focus on generating value for society. We don't pride ourselves with large employee numbers, but rather with exceptional impact per team member. We expect exceptional ownership and responsibility, not only for your tasks, but for our impact on society. Don't go improve the next ad platform, help us in our attempt to shape the future of education. If you can throw a punch with impact, then use both fists, not only 50%.

Perseverance - Always keep pushing yourself. We are a distributed team, working across several time zones. Just l ike us, you can live in Los Angeles, Kyiv, Zurich, or anywhere you want. Our home has many names: Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Github, InVision, Slack, etc. We don't excel through pressure, but through alignment and discipline. We don't require you to run with us forever, but don't expect a half-marathon either. Just keep in mind: pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Persevere. You're already at 75%.

Honor - Act with integrity, always help a friend or rival. Education is not a battle against each other, but for each other. Technology is already having a great impact on education. Why do we care? Because we believe that creative, curious people will honor future generations and learn to solve the world's biggest challenges for the long-term.


**What we offer**
- Medical insurance
- Flexible working hours
- Ability to work from home 20% of your time (100% during the pandemic period)
- 25 business days of fully paid annual leave, 10 business days of fully paid sick leave (annual)
- Courses of English and German
- Comfortable and friendly environment at the office.
 

Does this resonate well with you? Then we look forward to receiving your application!