Position: Senior WebApp Engineer for Education Startup
Company: Classtime
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Join our development team which is lead by a former Google engineer and extend your skills!

Classtime saves teachers time and gives every student a clear path to success! With more than 200'000 teachers worldwide, we need you to shape education with us!

Are you ready for the next step in your career and on the search for a new challenge? Do you want to grow with an innovative company and team? Then keep on reading!

Classtime is looking for you as Senior Software Engineer to strengthen the EdTech start-up in Zurich with flexible home-office options. It is Classtime's vision to shape learners into critical thinkers. This is why - based on the foundational values of curiosity, impact, perseverance, and honor - the team has set out to build the most advanced platform for learning and feedback. In your position, you will play a critical role in assuring that they can sustainably scale their existing engineering team, complement and strengthen the leadership and development organization with your skills and competencies, and assuring that Classtime continues to innovate fast and reliably and that quality of the product and code base remains high. 

**We are looking for someone to work with the CTO in the office in Zurich min 2/days per week. Other days can be work from home**

What You Will Be Doing
- Lead development of features, experiments, technical projects and complex systems
- Be a technical architect, mentor, and driver towards the right technology
- Build user-friendly web applications with current technologies including Typescript, Java, Python, Kotlin and C++
- Continue to evolve the architecture and build better software
- Be a major contributor to the agile and scrum practices

What You Bring To The Job
- Degree in computer science
- You have several years of experience in developing software
- You are very familiar with at least three of following programming languages: Typescript, Java, Python, Kotlin, C++
- You are an expert in writing unit tests, in refactoring code to improve readability, abstractions and reduce redundancy
- You have good communication skills

english: C1 – Advanced

Nice-to-Haves
- Experience leading a developer team
- Experience with micro-services, kubernetes and writing web-apps (React, HTML, CSS)
- You have experience in working with agile project management

Team
The development team consists of 13 people, divided into 2 teams. You will work with an outstanding, extremely motivated, young and collegial team that is pursuing ambitious growth goals together. The culture is based on an inspiring and motivating work environment that welcomes your own ideas. Your colleagues are highly collaborative, supportive and focus on advancement and learning, they are enthusiastic and deeply passionate about innovation and technology leadership. So are you? Join Classtime!

-  Reports to: CTO
-  Colleagues: 13
-  Team Language: English