Penji helps universities scale up student support programs (eg. tutoring, mentoring, advising). We’ve signed deals at 25 top universities like Rutgers, Georgia, and Vanderbilt within 12 months and have a large and growing pipeline. We are looking for a full stack developer to join our small remote team.

You’ll be working alongside our CTO, contributing across our whole stack including:
- A React Native app (iOS, Android, Web) that students and tutors use to schedule, manage interactions, and chat
- A React admin app for visualizing and managing a center’s activity
- Our backend systems that integrate with university systems

You’ll also help in experimenting with innovative tutoring modes while expanding existing features like appointments, drop-in, and kiosk.

**How you’ll be interviewed**
- You’ll send us your GitHub or other profile and any material about your skills
- We’ll review some tech questions related to your experience and also areas in our stack
- You can ask us any questions or things you’re curious about
- We’ll do some hands-on coding especially with React

**We want to learn more about:**
- A React Native app you helped release
- Or your contribution to an open source project
- Or how you earned your StackOverflow reputation
- Or a presentation, article, or demo you made
- Or some cool tech you worked with recently

**How you’ll work:**
- Ship features each week across all our apps and platform
- Participate in daily standups and weekly prioritization meetings
- Work with our university partners to improve and expand their programs with new modes and features
- Meet up in VR for a round of minigolf!

**The stack you’ll work with:**
- Language - JavaScript & TypeScript
- Frontend - React, React Native, React Native Web, Redux, Parse
- Backend - Node, Parse Server, Cube JS, Heroku
- Data - MongoDB, Firebase, BigQuery
- Testing - Appium, Jest
- Tools - Slack, Trello, GitHub, Loggly, JupyterLab, Azure DevOps, Docker

**Within 1 week you’ll:**
- Set up your local environment
- Work on a good first issue and ship it

**Within 1-2 months you’ll:**
- Work together on at least one large project released to production
- Understand overview of systems and integrations
- Help debug and triage user-facing issues
- Propose ideas for our roadmap

**Within 3-6 months you’ll:**
- Own large features and new integrations in production
- Sketch out and review new products and get feedback from university partners
- Collaborate on defining priorities and have deep understanding of student and partner needs

**What we offer:**
- Stock options available, up to 2% for the right candidate
- 401K with 100% match up to 3%, and another 50% match up to 5%
- Health Insurance Reimbursement
- 15 Days Vacation, Unlimited Sick Days

The higher education system is entering a major state of change. Schools are feeling intense pressure to modernize, and Penji has found a customer-base that is motivated and excited to collaborate on building the future. It’s been a really great year and we’re just getting started. We’d love to welcome you to the team!

#Salary or Compensation
$60,000 — $90,000/year


#Location
🌏 Worldwide