Senior Front-End Engineer (Canvas Data)

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At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their educations and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in:

We are looking for a Senior/Lead Front-End Engineer with deep experience in front-end application logic and modern Javascript frameworks to help build data centric features into our Canvas platform. We look for engineers passionate about using data to gain insight, drive behavior and improve our products. Our software helps millions of users learn and grow. Come help accelerate the learning process by developing data centric features for K-12, higher education and corporate users.

Culturally our team will look and feel very much like a highly collaborative start-up. We value innovation, so much so that we have quarterly Hackweeks; a week each quarter to work on relevant pet projects and features.

Most of our work is open source, even our primary product (Canvas). Check us out on Github: www.github.com/instructure.

Our Seattle office is located in the Pacific Building, 720 3rd Avenue, 15th Floor

Seattle, WA 98104.

What We Do:

  • The Instructure suite of SaaS applications produces terabytes of events and student information weekly. Your challenge will be to create the systems that organize this data and return insights to students, teachers and administrators. This team engineers the data and analytics platform for the entire Instructure application portfolio.
  • This is a growing team at Instructure with the opportunity to provide tangible positive impact to the business and end users. We are looking for creative, self-motivated, highly collaborative, extremely technical people who can drive a vision to reality.
  • We’re building innovative web applications. By leveraging single page application design, ES6, CSS3, and other cutting edge technologies, we hope to bring the richness of native desktop and mobile apps to the web.
  • We use the latest tools to support progressive browsers and companies: you can leave your IE6 hacks at home.
  • We are cloud native. For this job, that means bringing the fault-tolerant and high availability principles that power the cloud to the front-end to deliver lightning fast, ultra-reliable applications that delight our users.

What We Look For:

  • Breadth of experience across languages and frameworks.
  • Deep knowledge of JavaScript, including the latest features in ES6.
  • Production experience with modern JS frameworks like React.
  • Demonstrated experience unit testing JavaScript applications to ensure application quality.
  • Capable communicators passionate about product development and user experience.
  • Autodidacts who love continual learning and exploration.
  • Engineering leaders who care about coding standards and writing lean, maintainable software.
  • 5+ plus years of professional software development experience.
  • BS or greater in Computer Science preferred.

GET IN ON ALL THE AWESOME AT INSTRUCTURE:

  • Competitive salary, equity, and 401k 
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • 100% paid medical, dental, disability, and life insurance 
  • HSA program, vision, voluntary life, and AD&D 
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid time off, 9 paid holidays, and flexible work schedules 
  • Gym club reimbursements and rewards-based fitness tracking
  • Latest software and tools with top of the line equipment

We’ve always believed in hiring the most awesome people and treating them right. We know that the more diverse we are, the more diverse our ideas will be and when we openly welcome those ideas, our environment is better and our business is stronger.

At Instructure we participate in E-Verify and yes, in case you didn't catch it from the above, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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