Frontend Engineer

The award-winning global tech nonprofit CareerVillage.org is at an exciting moment: we’re rapidly growing, expanding our service offerings, and looking to grow our team with a full-time Frontend Software Engineer. If you’re mission-driven, passionate about developing socially impactful technology, and have a personal understanding of the challenges our learners face, we’d love to hear from you!

CareerVillage.org is dedicated to democratizing access to career information and advice for underrepresented people. As an Engineer at CareerVillage.org, you’ll be helping build the technology to execute on our mission reliably and at scale. You’ll be contributing to two products: (1) our flagship crowdsourcing platform, which supports millions of learners, over 150,000 professionals, and thousands of teachers who have joined our movement and (2) our new product, Coach, an AI Career Coach (read about it in Fast Company and Forbes). 

• →Write code using modern web technologies with a special focus on accessibility and responsiveness to build interfaces that are intuitive, polished, and provide a great user experience.
• →Collaborate with product designers, product managers, and backend engineers to shape the design, experience, and functionality of our products.
• →Draft documentation outlining technical approaches to complex problems and discuss their merits with colleagues to align on the best solution. 
• →Review code from team members, considering readability, maintainability, performance, and testability.
• →Write automated end-to-end tests to confirm the functionality of existing products before and after new feature development.
• →Participate in design reviews of other engineers’ proposals for solutions to complex problems.
• →Help investigate bug reports and engineering requests from end users and internal stakeholders.

We know that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. The ideal candidate will have many of the following:

• 4+ years of experience developing world-class digital products, with a particular emphasis on developing complex, high-quality frontend user interfaces.
• Experience with some combination of the following: React, JavaScript, Next.js, Tailwind, TanStack Query, and Cypress.
• A mission-driven mindset and commitment to developing transformational social impact technology.
• An interest in AI-driven products and a desire to stay current with how AI capabilities are evolving.
• Openness to giving and receiving constructive feedback; when you see something that can be improved, you act on it.
• Ability to build consensus on issues involving multiple stakeholders through your empathy, thoughtfulness, and trust-building skills.
• A professional attitude, strong communication skills, and reliability.
• Ability to thrive in a team of dedicated high performers.
• A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice through continued learning, consistently practicing inclusive behaviors, and actively countering bias.

We are a remote-first organization. Hybrid optional in NYC. CareerVillage.org has team members worldwide, with our HQ in Palo Alto, CA.

CareerVillage is an equal opportunity organization that celebrates diversity (for more information about our approach, check out our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Guidelines). Diversity includes race, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, size, religion, sexual orientation, parental status, socioeconomic background, and many other parts of an individual’s identity. We are a fair choice employer: qualified applicants with a history of arrest or conviction are welcome to apply and will be considered for this role. Each team member’s perspective is integral to our success, and fostering an inclusive environment is everyone’s responsibility. At this time, we can only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States on a permanent, full-time basis; unfortunately, we cannot provide visa sponsorship. 

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