We’re looking for Javascript Engineer to join our growing engineering team.
What will you be working on?
We're building a single page web app to bring the busuu language learning experience to millions of people. It's built with Grunt, Google's AngularJS, and SASS. We're open minded about trying new tools and technologies. It's very JavaScript focused, built around our rapidly growing API suite, and we're out to make a fast, reliable web app that feels part of the modern web.
While it's obviously simplest for someone who knows JavaScript and AngularJS already, if you don't but love picking up new technologies we'd like to hear from you.
Why busuu?
If you want to change the world by providing language learning around the globe and join an amazing team that is already developing a great platform for 35+ million users with 20 million app downloads and 40k+ new users every day than we are the company for you. In addition everyone gets big screens and fast computers, Linux, OSX or PC, up to you but most people have a fully spec'd MacBook Pro. We are sociable company with Friday cocktails and regular team lunches. We have a brand new bright office on the 3rd floor next to Old Street roundabout. We have free private healthcare, pay for your Gym membership and a generous bonus scheme. And most importantly we have free breakfast every morning and snacks throughout the day!
The role will involve the following responsibilities:
- Develop features for the busuu.com web application, turning high level descriptions into things our users will love
- Collaborate on wireframes and design drafts and turn these into well-implemented, functional user interfaces
- Work with the back-end engineering team to design and implement new API methods to deliver new functionality
Something about you…
- You fit the bill of an innovative developer, with deep interest in Internet Technologies and a passion for building ground-breaking online tools.
- You are able to give accurate estimations of development times for projects, and organise your time to meet project deliverables and deadlines.
- You have excellent knowledge and understanding of the DOM, HTML, CSS and cross-browser support. You are proficient in object-oriented JavaScript, and skilled in debugging and problem solving.
- You will love to code, think of it as recreation rather than work, and have a number of your own projects you have done just for fun.
- You have a sense of humour, are ambitious, and love the thrill and madness of working in a start-up environment
…and something about us
We are the largest social network for language learning, with more than 35 million users worldwide. We offer free and premium paid-for access to audio-visual courses for 12 languages: Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and English.
The company is named after the Busuu language of Cameroon. According to an ethnological study from the 1980s, Busuu is spoken by only 8 people!
We are a young team committed to making this start-up company a global hit! If you value the exciting, varied and fast-paced environment so often created within a company in its early days, and are excited at the prospect to bring your skill-sets and do whatever it takes to continually deliver excellent customer experiences, apply now!