Senior Backend Developer

Are you an expert on high performance and request responsiveness to and from the front-end? Do you take pride in managing the interchange of data between the server and users? Is your focus a fast and error-free experience?

We are putting together a new team for a project that aims to speed up the development of our simulations and exciting features to achieve our mission of reaching 100 million STEM students globally. We are looking for an experienced Node.js backend developer to help us deliver a fast and error-free experience. This is your chance to join an early stage project within a successful startup and shape the project's future.

We're using a modern microservice architecture with a Node.js (TypeScript, Nest.js) / Vue.js / MongoDB stack. If this all sounds exciting, then maybe you are our next Senior Backend Developer!

What you’ll be doing

  • Implement and maintain solutions to integrate with the learning management systems of major universities across the globe reaching millions of students and teachers with a team of passionate professionals.

  • Alongside a team of domain experts and software engineers, you’ll develop high-quality products, fully compliant with industry standards (e.g. LTI) and tailored to the teachers’ and students’ needs globally.

  • Collaborate with developers to improve the quality of our backend solutions

  • Review other developers’ code and contribute to the active developer community at Labster.

We’d love to hear from you if...

  • You’re a committed, highly competent backend developer, particularly Node.js.

  • Big bonus points for TypeScript,Vue.js and MongoDB experience.

  • You care deeply about good code quality and software design.

  • You’re a can-do and will-do, proactive person, motivated by delivering value through amazing user experience development.

  • Learning is everything. You’re an advocate of constantly learning new technologies and skills.

  • BSc in Computer Science is desirable but not a deal breaker. We know that equivalent education or practical experience counts just as much.

  • Fully proficient in verbal and written English.

Why Labster.

We are Labster. Creators of virtual science lab software that makes learning engaging, effective and accessible, to as many students as possible. We exist to empower the next generation of scientists to change the world. It’s our mission to support 100 million science learners globally by 2025.

In the same way our technology empowers students, we thrive on an autonomous and innovative culture based on Holacracy, and ensuring that your work fits into your lifestyle.

We encourage individual expression, boldly challenge how it’s always been done, and foster learning, creativity and growth. How you work is in your control, balanced by the comfort of access to like-minded, inspiring people, when you need it.

What’s in it for you?

  • Be a part of making science accessible and engaging to the world’s future scientists

  • Generous parental leave policy with a phased return to work program

  • Embrace the autonomy of Holacracy, and work that fits into your lifestyle; self-development, family-work balance, and mental wellbeing are highly valued by Labster's engineering team

  • Fair and attractive salaries

  • Unlimited paid vacation (which we encourage you to actually take!)

  • Learning budget & freedom to decide what you learn!

  • Company-wide equity program

  • Opportunities to travel and meet your colleagues from around the world! (Covid permitting)