Udacity's mission is to
democratize education. We're an online learning platform offering
groundbreaking education in fields such as artificial intelligence,
machine learning, robotics, virtual reality, and more. Focused on
self-empowerment through learning, Udacity is making innovative
technologies such as self-driving cars available to a global community
of aspiring technologists, while also enabling learners at all levels to
skill up with essentials like programming, web and app development.
Udacity is looking for people to join our Engineering team. If you love a
challenge, and truly want to make a difference in the world, read on!
As
an engineer on our Admissions team, you will be working to support our
mission to democratize education and help make sure students are
prepared for successful outcomes in our most advanced Nanodegree
programs like Self Driving Car Engineer and Artificial Intelligence. You
will be working in an isomorphic Javascript stack (React and Node) with
a true full stack focus, to create a fair and delightful admissions
experience that provides valuable feedback for hundreds of thousands of
applicants across the world.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Drive new feature development and help to refine the admissions process that gates our most advanced programs.
- Ship code for an extremely high visibility product, every day.
- Write high-performance code designed to scale.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience.
- A love of Javascript.
- Experience with Node.
- Experience with front end JS frameworks, React is strongly preferred.
- Experience with relational databases, Postgres preferred.
- Experience with distributed systems and Docker.
- An engineering mindset.
- A user-centric mentality for building products.
- Passionate about education.
- Empathy for our students.
We
are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
Women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, individuals with
disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.