Software Engineer, Top Hat
Interactive software for higher education
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Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- 2-4 years of experience in frontend web development, ideally with React and Typescript, but similar experience with other frameworks is welcome
- Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA) and inclusive design
- Familiarity with building and maintaining design systems or component libraries
- Understanding of code quality and best practices, testing frameworks (we use React Testing Library), frontend performance, and CI/CD workflows
- A proactive problem-solver: Navigate ambiguity confidently by asking the right questions, making informed decisions, and aligning with stakeholders
- Innovation-focused mindset: Excited by experimentation, eager to propose ideas that enhance both technology and product design
- Strong communication skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication, active listening, and the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences
- A commitment to quality: You take pride in writing reliable, accessible, tested code and embrace full ownership of your work’s quality
What the job involves
- We’re searching for an Intermediate Frontend Developer to join our Core Frontend Team!
- As part of the Core Frontend team, you’ll work at the intersection of design, development, and infrastructure
- Our team is responsible for building and maintaining the components, standards, and tools that enable product teams to quickly and efficiently ship high quality, accessible user experiences at scale
- We care deeply about accessibility and continually seek ways to optimize performance and enhance the experiences of both the developers who build our products and our customers
- You will leverage data-driven insights to deliver impactful improvements to our frontend systems and tooling
- You’ll play a critical role in the quality and reliability of our products that drive success for both students and educators
- Join this talented group that is dedicated to solving at-scale challenges, and help us to fulfill our mission to spark better teaching and learning for a brighter world
- As part of our growing Engineering team, you’ll help design and build the next generation of features that will shape classrooms worldwide
- Drive impactful projects: Take ownership of key initiatives, leading the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) from discovery and planning to development and release, in collaboration with Product, Design, and Engineering peers
- Experiment and innovate: Propose bold ideas, experiment with solutions, and iterate to improve both our technology and the products we build
- Advocate for and model best practices: Help define and enforce coding standards and best practices; create documentation and tooling to support developers working in our frontend
- Collaborate in a dynamic environment: Work with teams across Product, Design, and Engineering to find creative solutions to new challenges
- Contribute across the board: Support team goals by resolving bugs, tackling individual tickets, and ensuring the continuous improvement of our products and systems
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those quality materials into digitally distributed versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company HQ
Downtown Toronto, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO & CMO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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