Brilliant (https://brilliant.org/) is a tight-knit team of scientists, educators, engineers, designers, storytellers, and illustrators who are redesigning education at scale.

They believe that math and science are fascinating and beautiful, but that the tools widely used to teach it are dry and ineffective. Brilliant makes learning STEM fun, through problem solving and interactive explorations – from foundational math and science to cutting-edge computer science and professional topics. 

Brilliant helps over 9 million students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world cultivate problem solving skills, build intuition, and master concepts rather than memorize them. To understand more about their approach, see their learning principles (http://brilliant.org/principles/).

The Role

Brilliant is a team of fun, motivated, and experienced product and engineering entrepreneurs who are working to make an actual and meaningful impact in the world. As a Frontend engineer on their team, you'll write TypeScript, Elm, and Django templates. As a senior member of the client team, you'll be helping people across Brilliant teach topics from the basics of arrays to vector calculus in an interactive way.

Brilliant's Engineering Team

Their engineers are extraordinary programmers without big egos. They love to share knowledge and support each other. They work together as an interdependent team to accomplish a common goal, and they know how to get things done. They maintain high personal standards, and possess an ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge.

Why join Brilliant? 

Brilliant has a mission you can get behind. They’re a company that’s helping to bring learners from all over the world together and create a platform on which they can excel, learn, and contribute. 

They also offer:

•   Competitive compensation

•   Medical, dental, and vision benefits – we pay 100% of the premiums

•   Equipment budget for computer and peripherals

•   Free lunch

•   Weekly happy hour

•   Flexible vacation time

•   Fully-stocked pantry and refrigerator with snacks and drinks

•   Sponsorship for conferences and professional development

•   A stimulating work environment and a chance to change the world  

What you'll be doing at Brilliant:

• Building the frontend for new features using Vue.js, TypeScript, and SCSS -- writing clean code and making smart design decisions, all with minimal guidance.

• Work closely with passionate education experts to grow a suite of tools for expressing concepts in an interactive way – built primarily in Elm. These tools are essential to the future of Brilliant and under rapid development.

• Refactoring and converting legacy features built with Django templates, JS/ES6, and Less. Brilliant is actively working to replace all of their legacy code, so this type of work will gradually decrease.

• Identifying technical debt and offering recommendations on improving the quality of the frontend codebase.

• Staying well-informed of new technologies as they come up in the ever-evolving frontend world, and recognizing the difference between a game changing technology and a passing fad.

Things that make you a good fit:

• Have 3 years of relevant software experience.

• You feel great joy when problem solving (or perhaps after successfully solving a problem). You're able to break a problem down into its component parts, understand it completely, and brainstorm with others on multiple solutions – weighing solutions against each other within the constraints of the situation at hand. You can effectively translate a solution from thought to clean, idiomatic code.

• You've worked professionally for at least three years as a frontend engineer. You're more than comfortable with JavaScript – its quirks, best practices, and why this way is better than that way. You already know, or are interested in, TypeScript and Elm. You are familiar with a modern frontend framework like React or Vue. You understand how to write concise and reusable CSS. Lastly, you're proud of how you solved a frontend problem recently, and you're excited to tell us about it.

Mandatory:

• To be eligible to apply for this position through Startuplifers you must be currently studying towards a degree or have graduated from a Finnish or a Swedish university

Send your applications by 27 July 2020.

Startuplifers is a not-for-profit organization connecting the top Nordic talent with San Francisco Bay Area startups. We guarantee a free flight ticket, a hassle-free visa process, and a supportive community, making your transition to San Francisco seamless and fun. Together we will secure the job of your dreams.