About Us

At Showbie, were building tools to help teachers transform their classrooms by delivering faster, more engaging, and more impactful feedback and assessment to their students. Our apps,ShowbieandSocrative, are used by millions of teachers and students in classrooms worldwide.

We are proudly based in Edmonton, Canada, but we have a growing global team located across Canada and Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom and Norway.

We are comprised of people who are passionate about empowering educators as they use technology to redefine and improve their classrooms. Our values of leading with care, seek perspectives, and being driven by purpose, guide our attitudes and actions each day.

The Role

Showbie is looking for a Web Application Developer to join our Socrative product team. Socrative is a companion app to Showbie that provides interactive classroom assessments to over a million teachers and tens of millions students each year. As a Web Application Developer, you will help build and maintain the Socrative app built with NodeJS and ReactJS. You have expertise in building front end code and are comfortable with back end services, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable cloud architectures.. You have a keen interest in writing clean code, following software development best practices, and are constantly learning innovative technologies. You will be a part of an empowered software development team that contributes to the full software development lifecycle. You will work closely with other technical experts, including developers, DevOps, QA, designers, and product managers, as part of a truly inspired product team.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with Designers and Product Managers to create responsive and accessible product experiences for teachers and students
• Designing and developing code for single-page web applications using JavaScript/Typescript frameworks (we use ReactJS)
• Building API endpoints using REST and/or GraphQL
• Comfortable reviewing backend code using NodeJS
  
• Refactoring older interfaces into modern user interfaces with an emphasis on UX
• Conducting code reviews, sharing of expertise, and collaborating with other technical experts
• Maintaining a high standard of code quality, including a variety of test coverage
• Refactoring and modernizing legacy code/architecture into newer technologies (e.g. Docker, GraphQL, ElasticSearch)
• Planning and improving automation, workflows, and build processes (e.g. CI/CD, Webpack, Lerna, Babel, etc.)

You

Youll need to be proficient with the following technologies and practices. We do this stuff all day long:

• 2+ years building web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Vue.js, Svelte, React)
• Good understanding of back-end services (we use Node.js and some Python)
• Proficient writing clean, performant code using JavaScript/TypeScript
• Expertise in building web components with HTML and CSS
• Proficientworking with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, Redis)
  
• Up-to-date with the latest web standards, trends and technologies
• Expertise with source code best practices (Git and GitHub workflow)

What You Can Expect From Us

• At Showbie be 100% yourself. We like it that way. We welcome all team members (and candidates) and celebrate your diverse voice. Regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious belief, or status, we want to meet you!
• Remote-first forever; considering a big life change? Want to try working from another country? We will work with you to allow you to work from wherever.
• The autonomy to make decisions and execute them. Were growing, but were a small team. Everything you do makes a difference and your input will always be celebrated.
• Transparency. You will always be kept up to date on the company strategy through monthly town halls.
• While our head office is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, we'll help to ensure you are set up for success in your remote work environment.
• We offer a flexible work environment. Work from the office, or from home, or any combination of the two. Because sometimes you do your best work in your slippers.
• We value work-life balance. When we're at work we're excited and focused on building a great product. We also know that going home (or simply closing your laptop) and not working weekends or Christmas makes us even more excited to come to work and do great things.
  
• While we take government holidays off, if they aren't ones that align with your personal or cultural beliefs, we have a swapping program that ensures you get the days that work best for you.
• Casual afternoon socials, monthly team events, hackathons, awesome Holiday parties, and a team that actually likes to hang out with one another.
  
• Generous flex time and time off during December Holidays.
  

Check out ourWork at Showbiepage to learn a little bit about our company culture and the benefits we offer to our team. We pride ourselves on a company culture that values the whole you. We like to have fun as much as we like to work.

This role is based in: Edmonton, AB, Canada with the option to work 100% remotely (in Canada).

The proposed salary range for this role is: $55,000-$75,000

Don't meet all the expectations, or experience requirements listed here? Please apply anyways! We are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please just let us know.

Please be advised that, due to the holiday break, we will not be contacting applicants for interviews until after Monday, January 6th.