Software Engineer

Who you are: 

• You think kids are smart and funny. You want to learn from them and build tools to help them reach their potential. 

• You go deep into hard problems and persist to find the solution. 

• You’re never done learning. 

• You ask lots of questions and pride yourself on coming up with good ones. 

• You care about the product you’re building and want to make it better. You see yourself as a guardian of the user experience, not just the code. 

• You’re a student of programming language history and want to help realize the dreams of the early computing pioneers. 

• Learning how to write high-performing graphics code sounds exciting rather than daunting. 

• You write tests and try to make your code easy to change. You hold yourself and your team to rigorous standards of code quality. 

• You having processes for how you work and are always trying to make them better. 

• You believe diversity makes stronger teams. You want to learn from and collaborate with people who bring multiple perspectives to the table. 

• You want a job that isn’t limited by your title, you can pitch in wherever you see a need. 

• You bring your whole self to your job and believe this is essential for doing great work.

What you’ll do: 

• Write code for the Hopscotch runtime in Javascript (Typescript) with WebGL and PixiJS. 

• Write code in Swift and Objective-C for the Hopscotch iOS editor and app. 

• Occasionally write code for with the backend server in Ruby on Rails. 

• Pair-program with the co-founder and CTO. 

• Run the QA process to ensure that the app ships bug-free. 

• Interact with kids on our forum to get bug reports and solicit testers.