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Lessonspace Engineer (Job Description)

[NOTE: This is a rough and general application form to complete if you are interested in any engineering role at Lessonspace. While we don't have an active opening at the moment, this application is used to keep a look out for interesting applicants.] Lessonspace is here to make teaching easier. We’re a fast-growing software company that provides tools for live, collaborative online learning. Thousands of hours of lessons are taught around the world every day using Lessonspace. Founded in South Africa, Lessonspace now operates globally, with Europe and North America as our biggest markets. During Covid, we grew 10X and we’re looking for a talented and ambitious engineer to help us accelerate the release of education tools and features. Lessonspace also helps to power products like Code4Kids. At Lessonspace, you'll get to work with cutting edge technologies (including things like WebRTC, CRDTs, Rust and Vue) across a globally networked system to provide reliable audio, video and collaborative tools to enable education worldwide. A big focus of yours will be focusing on our core interactive software stack - Holodeck. You'll be working closely with the technical co-founders of the company, and have full access to business metrics. Our ideal candidate for this role is an engineer with proven aptitude and experience looking to take their development to the next level in a fast growing team.

As an Engineer, you will be required to:

• Work closely with the engineering team to release features on the product roadmap.
• Be able to take full ownership of your feature releases, testing and reliability.
• Gain a holistic understanding of the Lessonspace stack, infrastructure, internal development requirements, resources as well as customer facing features.
• You will be working in a team of engineers and sales and will play a role engaging with larger customers and helping them onboard onto Lessonspace.

Requirements of the role:

• A University degree is not needed, but would be ideal. 5+ years of experience in the industry
• Experience working in an engineering team and engaging with clients.
• Experience with Python, Javascript (Node.js) and testing frameworks.
• Experience in the usual frontend stack; HTML, CSS, Javascript, a reactive framework like Vue or React and frontend testing frameworks like Jest and Cypress.
• An added extra if you have experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure)
• An added extra if you have experience with Rust or WebRTC.
• An added extra if you have devops knowledge - Nomad (or Kubernetes) and Docker, as well as knowledge of standard Linux networking and shell scripting.

Realities of the Role

Working in a remote role with high-paced feature release requirements will result in some days feeling challenging while others will be very high energy. Oftentimes, you will need to be managing multiple projects of different sizes, in various stages of the development. Working at Lessonspace is exciting and we are treading new territory in the Education technology industry. You will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the company’s growth during this pivotal time.

What will help you to find success in this role:

• A good time keeper with the ability to project manage yourself and clearly communicate progress, difficulties or lack of clarity.
• Be able to break large projects into small frequent releases.
• Able to spend days or hours working through problems yourself, often without frequent contact, balanced with the enjoyment of small-group team meetings and creative discussions.

Remuneration and work environment:

• Lessonspace is a fully-remote team, from time-to-time we might ask you to join us at our office in Cape Town should it be practical.
• Ideally for our 3 month on-boarding, you'll be joining us in our Cape Town office (WeWork on Strand)
• You will report directly to the Head of Engineering. Competitive remuneration.

If interested, please apply here or email engineering@thelessonspace.com . We look forward to hearing from you! Apply Now #J-18808-Ljbffr