Back-End Software Engineer

★ IMPORTANT: MUST have 4+ years of working experience as a developer

ABOUT US

★ AngelPad #10 - Spring 2016 ★ All-Star Company

NexGenT is on a mission to provide affordable IT education through an innovative approach that combines the best of online learning with the best of in person learning. The company is striving to spark a change in the educational system, which is currently leaving people in high amounts of debt and not giving them the skills they need to succeed in the workforce.

★ RESPONSIBILITIES

CS Bachelors or Masters degree from a top school (or equivalent experience and talent). A strong background in CS fundamentals is a must for this position.

• Build out a beautiful, scalable, cross-platform IT cloud education platform
• Collaborate and work closely with engineers, UI/UX designers and PMs
• Iterate quickly on new feature requests

★ QUALIFICATIONS

You must be incredibly smart and a fantastic engineer. Bonus points if your friends have ever described you as a "beast" and you have super hard work ethics.

• At least 5 years of working experience as a software engineer.
• At least 1 year of working experience with
  • Managing AWS resources with automation tools
  • RDBMS, preferably MySQL or Aurora on RDS
  • NoSQL Database, preferably DyanmoDB
  • Node.js
  • Microservices or Serverless Architecture.
  • Another language as a back-end engineer.
• Ability to choose right technologies and/or tools.
• Strong knowledge about CS and our stack such as design patterns, how RDBMS works, writing performant code, etc... rather than just being able to write code which just works.
• Services and/or apps built by you and published to somehwere publicly available and/or GitHub profile.

★ Bonus

• Experience with React.js
• Experience with Serverless Framework
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Golang
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

★ BENEFITS

Medical, Dental & Vision, Life Health Plans For You and Your Dependents Very Cool Startup Office in Downtown Silicon Valley San Jose Full Gym and Shower On-site Included

★★ Stock Options/Equity with HUGE upside as employee #6-10. Come join the next Silicon Valley Unicorn and help us disrupt tech education once and for all!