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Posted almost 3 years ago

We’re looking for talented individuals interested in joining a new and growing global company. At Slang, you’ll be an early team member of a well-funded startup spun out from MIT. We’re building a world-class team to revolutionize language learning with cutting-edge technology and beautiful design.
 
 
What we’re working on at Slang
 
Slang started at MIT as a research project on using AI and NLP to make learning a new language as efficient as possible. Our technology powers a highly adaptive e-learning platform that offers an unprecedented variety of specialized English courses and proficiency tests for career development in over 80 fields like Sales, Finance, Logistics, Medicine, and Law. We already have the largest professional English offering in the world.
 
Learn more about our unique approach at slangapp.com.
 
 
What this role is about
 
If you’re interested in pioneering a way to apply cutting-edge technologies to online education — and having a strong hand in shaping our front-end development culture and practices — we would love to tell you more about our opportunity.
 
In this role, you’ll be involved in both product development and company strategy and execution — you’ll own the research, design, and development of the front ends of new features and you’ll help us refine our product roadmap. In particular, our front end presents two main responsibilities: architecting, developing, documenting, and maintaining an internal design system and component library alongside our Design Team; and building our user-facing products, complete with rich front-end logic and state management, using that design system. You will own both halves of this process!
 
As a senior-level member of the team, you will also have the opportunity to step into a technological leadership role as our Engineering Team grows. There is room at Slang for both technology-focused and management-focused senior-level engineers; a career path that best suits your own professional goals will be established.
 
In addition to day-to-day engineering needs, technology-focused senior engineers will be responsible for architecting full solutions to complex technological problems and establishing best practices for our engineering processes. Management-focused senior engineers will be responsible for mentorship of junior engineers, recruitment, and structuring the growth of Slang’s Engineering Team. All senior-level engineers play a strong role in code review and coaching.
 
Our codebase is built with best practices in mind and our product is designed with proper UI/UX at the forefront of development. The work we face encompasses both desktop and mobile UI implementation, a diverse population of end-users, and unique interface problems.
 
Some of our technology comes from the open-source community, so be prepared to contribute back!
 
 
Some interesting problems we’re tackling:
  • How can we build a front-end engineering culture which enables efficient communication between designers and engineers, and enables all front-end engineers on the team to efficiently make use of our component library?
  • How can we design the learning experience to communicate the power of advanced data science deciding the particular sequence of activities a user sees while maintaining simplicity and intuitiveness?
  • How should we structure our web and mobile UIs to maintain consistency across platforms and our various applications?
 
Skills and technologies:
  • Five or more years of experience with modern web UI stacks and related technologies, with a preference for React and TypeScript experience (our current codebase is entirely React/TypeScript, using hooks/context for state management and styled-components for styling).
  • A plus: explicit experience planning, developing,  and documenting a design system or component library.
  • Experience in engineering leadership roles, perhaps in a position like “tech lead” or “engineering manager.”
  • A strong desire to maintain a clean, reliable, maintainable, and efficient codebase.
  • An eye for design. We’re big on UI/UX here, so a good aesthetic sense is important.
  • Excellent discipline and focus, especially in autonomous environments. You’ll be working directly with the CTO to research and make key front-end engineering decisions.
  • A plus: interest or experience with mobile application design and development, language-learning, or data visualization.
  • Strong English communication skills. Our team is global and speaks many languages, but our day-to-day communication is in English.
 
What Slang can offer you
 
Our compensation package includes a competitive salary and unique benefits.
 
Most importantly, we offer the special experience of being part of a fast-moving and quickly growing international company within the entrepreneurial ecosystems of Boston and MIT.
 
 
Where we're located
 
Our team is currently split between Boston, Ciudad de México, São Paulo, Bogotá and Medellín. We are recruiting great people in these locations and around the world.
 
Our US headquarters is located in the Cambridge Innovation Center in the heart of downtown Boston, easily accessible by public transportation and alongside other innovative companies. Our Colombia office is located in the Rosales neighborhood of Bogotá and in the Ruta N Innovation district of Medellín. Our México City office is located in Montes Urales WeWork.
 
Interested?
 
We'd love to hear from you — apply below!
 
Slang is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are excited about creating an inclusive and healthy environment.
 
For further information related to Slang, check out recent pieces profiling us in Expansión and Portafolio; the portfolios of our investors, Social Capital, ALLVP and Positive Ventures (also investors in startups like Slack, Intercom, and Cornershop); our Crunchbase profile; and the profiles of our founders, Diego and Kamran.