Software Engineer

Progummy provides a visual programming service that connects children around the world who will be the future leaders and fosters their smiles and creativity in the age of COVID-19. We are looking for a web application developer who has a passion for children's education and wants to lead the ambitious development of remote collaborative IDE using real-time databases and other web technologies as a core member of Progummy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use Firebase APIs/TypeScript/JavaScript/React/SCSS to create a real-time visual programming IDE.
• Set up and deploy, manage our services on Firebase instances via Firebase console and CLIs.
• Learn the data structure of Scratch and how it works for the development.

Additional / Optional Responsibilities:

If you'd like just to code, we understand that.  

It would be awesome though if you could also support our team with additional automated testing, if that's your thing.

• Plan testing strategy to improve the quality of real-time visual programming IDE.

• Automate tests based on the strategy with testing tools like puppeteer and JavaScript. 

Sometimes manually do them if necessary. For the tests, learn how to make complicated large-scale Scratch programs with extensions to getting tests done.

Project management:

• Agile task-based work with sprint-based iterations but it is not so strict at this moment.
• Daily online standup.
• Two planning meetings a week.
• Bi-weekly sprint review.
• Bi-weekly retrospective.

Qualifications

Required Skills

• 3+ years of professional web application development experience in Front-end development using languages such as React, or Server-side development using languages such as Python.
• Experience in development using cloud services such as Azure, GCP
• Experience in Git, JavaScript, React, Typescript, and its debugging/testing.
• Experience in real-time database services like Firebase Realtime Database, Firestore, or AWS DynamoDB.

Nice to have

• Experience in maintaining a CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) environment.
• Experience in architecting, building, and operating entire web systems.
• Experience in building and operating infrastructure environments using containers and terraform.
• Experience in developing test plans, prioritization/triage of bugs, e2e test automation and can execute them by oneself.
• Experience in automation and scripting tools like puppeteer and JavaScript APIs.

Soft skills

• Be able to handle early morning and late-night meetings if necessary due to the time difference between Japan and the U.S. (weekly standup).
• Be able to communicate positively with non-native customers and colleagues globally.
• Be willing to communicate in plain English.
• Be creative in conversation, writing, and visual expression.
• Be willing to learn the Japanese culture if necessary.
• Be able to respect the way of thinking of people with diverse cultures, backgrounds, and values, without being rigidly bound by your own common sense.
• Be willing to work proactively with existing members to grow Progummy and realize a world where Progummy exists.
• Be able to think in user-centered terms, targeting children and educators.
• Be motivated to learn new technologies to solve problems and improve our services for the better customer experience.