JavaScript/Full Stack Engineer

Our growing team is looking for a JavaScript Ecosystem Engineer to help guide our software design and systems and build a solid foundation for future development. If you are obsessed with software craftsmanship, automating everything, reusable components with style guides, and simple yet elegant architectures, then let's talk.

Founded in 2003, Ocelot is higher education's #1 SaaS provider of multilingual AI chatbots, serving over 6.5 million students at over 400 institutions. The Ocelot tech stack employs TypeScript, React, Node.js, and a Drupal CMS. Everything is deployed on AWS. Our agile engineering team is remote-first with staff working from home most of the time.

Responsibilities:

• Code new features
• Always improving our development experience
• Participate in planning meetings, development activities, deployment, and monitoring
• Shape and guide our JavaScript ecosystem code and architecture
• Maintain high standards of quality, velocity, and craftsmanship
• Recruit and mentor software engineers

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience
• 3+ years of JavaScript development experience
• 3+ years of experience with Node.js
• 3+ years of React.js experience
• Proficient with Docker, React.js, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB technologies
• Skilled with AWS, Linux and web server administration
• Familiar with Typescript, Redux, Jest
• Experienced with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular
• Strong working knowledge with development tools including Git and JIRA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Next.js or other server-side rendered JavaScript framework
• Experience with AI and Machine Learning
• Experience with MQ including ActiveMQ
• Experience with ElasticSearch and solr
• Experience as a Technical Lead, Architect, or Scrum Master is a plus