We are a Copenhagen-based tech start-up with an award-winning book-creation web app for young elementary students. The Danish version, “Skriv og læs,” is reaching 75% of the Danish public schools – with documented results of enhancing children’s learning. For over 200 years schools have used basically the same methods to teach children to write and read. Still, every fifth child today is functionally illiterate. We have a mission to change that and fight illiteracy worldwide!

About you

You are a skilled backend developer and a passionate coder that want to have fun while taking part in changing the way our next generation learns. We imagine you can see yourself in many of these traits:

• 3+ year experience as a Backend Developer.
• You make good decisions that support maintenance of a codebase.
• You write good, well-documented code.
• You utilize relevant programming principles and patterns, to ensure code quality (e.g. Programming Principles).
• Experience with SQL.
• You have the ability and drive to learn new tech/tools when needed.
• Experience with (or knowledge of):
  • Development of RESTful services.
  • Continuous Integration.
  • Building products on a cloud platform.

Personal:

• You are positive and engage in finding good solutions with your colleagues.
  
• You are focused on making the best experience for our end-users.
• You are motivated by working on a product that aims to let kids succeed in life.
• Proficient in written and spoken English. 

Tech

The WriteReader Web App is 100% API-driven, meaning the frontend and backend is completely separated and deployed/maintained separately. The following are important elements in our backend stack, but you do not necessarily need experience with every specific framework/service. The important thing is that you are bringing experience that enables you to become skilled in this environment.

• C# + .NET
• ASP.NET Web API
• Swagger (documenting APIs)
• .NET Entity Framework
• Amazon Cloud Services: Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Aurora, Cloudfront, Lambda and more.
• Microsoft SQL Server (we will plan to migrate to other SQL database).
• AppVeyor (Continuous Integration + deployment) 

The backend role

• Work closely together with the rest of the dev team, especially our existing Backend Dev and Tech Lead.
• Develop APIs for new features on our platform.
• Integrate with DB and external services (login providers, image search, speech synthesis, etc.)
• Maintain the backend part of our build/deploy setup.
• Ensure scalability: optimizing code + DB, configure load-balancing, etc.