Senior Software Engineer, Age of Learning
$140-160k
Digital educational materials
Job no longer available
Digital educational materials
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$140-160k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help children everywhere build a strong foundation for academic success and a lifelong love of learning.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer
- You have 5+ years proven experience building software (games or apps), ideally, that are consumer-facing and content-driven
- You are familiar with a varied software design paradigms and design patterns
- You have a solid understanding of the full software development life cycle, from ideation to release
- You are experienced with performance tuning and optimization techniques for front-end systems
- You write documented, unit-testable code that is compliant with our company coding conventions and standards
Desirable
- You earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or related subject
- You have worked in a recent version of Flutter or Unity
- You have experience working with game frameworks like Phaser, Pixi, or Unity
- You have worked with Dart, C#, or similar statically typed C-like languages
- You have experience working in an Agile development framework
- You have educational and/or puzzle game development experience
What the job involves
- You will help us build high-performance web and mobile applications using existing standards and conventions, and you will also contribute to the product architecture
- Identify, design, and develop features and functionality within applications for deployment to Android, iOS, and web
- Develop extensible, dynamic game templates
- Solve complex problems with concise and straightforward architectural solutions
- Ensure code quality through unit testing and code reviews
- Participate in new technology and technical solution evaluation and provide recommendations
- Perform hands-on development within existing code/products as well as new projects
- Coordinate with your team to define development timeframes, dependencies, and areas of risk to be considered in project planning
- Collaborate with design and production teams to ensure layouts, animations, audios, and graphical assets are efficiently integrated into application features while preserving artistic integrity and performance
Our take
Age of Learning creates and distributes digital educational material to schools, educators, and families. The company's programs have been used worldwide to educate millions of children through a range of stories and games, many of which feature its main character ABCmouse.
As with many trends, the move to digitize education was accelerated by the global pandemic, with how children are taught reshaped by at-home classes and remote learning. Age of Learning has capitalized on the eagerness of parents and schools to continue embracing new technologies, launching its Personalized Mastery Learning Ecosystem for schools, which enables teachers, families, and administrators to focus on the individual learning needs of students, and accelerate literacy and maths skills through technology and learning science.
And this approach to education hasn't gone unnoticed, with the company named one of TIME's Top EdTech Companies of 2024 alongside making the GSV 150 list of Most Transformational Growth Companies in Digital Learning and Workforce Skills. Strengthening the companies reputation, Age of Learning is ready for continued growth and to shape the future of digital learning.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2021
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Aug 2020
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $500m
Company benefits
- 90% of employee health and welfare benefits premiums & 65% of dependent benefits premiums
- A 401(k) program with employer match
- 15 paid vacation days (increases to 20 days on your 3-year anniversary), 12 observed national paid holidays plus 9 sick days
- Our flexible work culture means 2 or more days in the office (hybrid) or 100% fully remote options available for most positions
Company HQ
Downtown, Glendale, CA
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Leadership
Alex Galvagni
(CEO & CPO)Initially joined Age of Learning in 2016 as CPO in 2016 and became CEO in 2023. Prior to this, they were a General Manager at Warner Gros. Entertainment Group of Companies, Head of Studios at Crowdstar, and President & COO at Transpera.
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