Lessonspace is here to make teaching easier. We're a fast-growing EdTech software company that provides tools for live, collaborative online learning. Thousands of hours of lessons are taught around the world every day using Lessonspace. Founded in South Africa, Lessonspace now operates globally, with Europe and North America as our biggest markets. We're looking for a talented and ambitious engineer to help us accelerate the release of education tools and features.
At Lessonspace, you'll get to design and build new and interesting features, using cutting edge web technologies (including things like WebRTC, CRDTs, TailwindCSS, Vue 3 and Vite) across a globally networked system to provide reliable audio, video and collaborative education tools to enable high-quality education worldwide. A big focus of yours will be on building new, and improving existing features in our core collaborative application.
You'll be working closely with the technical co-founders of the company, and have full access to business metrics. Our ideal candidate for this role is a senior-level frontend design engineer with a portfolio that demonstrates experience working on complex frontend projects, looking to take their development to the next level in small specialist team.
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Requirements
As a senior frontend design/UI engineer, you will be required to:
- Work with the product and engineering team leads to design and implement features on the product roadmap, collaborating with engineers to provide design feedback during iteration
- Be able to take full ownership of your feature releases, testing and reliability, with an impeccable attention to detail to make sure the features you ship are top quality
- Occasionally produce product-related marketing material for blogs/changelogs/social media posts etc
- Gain a holistic understanding of our stack, infrastructure, internal development requirements, resources as well as customer-facing features so that you can make informed design decisions
Requirements for the role:
- UI/UX design skills with a good sense of aesthetics and a portfolio of work demonstrating your ability. This could be your Github profile, or a personal website
- Fundamental understanding of the frontend stack - HTML, CSS, JavaScript - as well as working knowledge of Git and the command line
- Experience building complex SPAs with a reactive JavaScript framework (e.g. Vue, React, Angular, Svelte etc.)
The following are not required, but any experience with these would make you a great fit:
- Utility-first CSS frameworks like TailwindCSS
- TypeScript and type systems
- Building realtime collaborative interfaces, with CRDTs, or WebRTC
- HTML APIs or libraries focusing on their usage
- Node.js backend stacks
- End-to-end testing frameworks like Cypress or Playwright
- A relevant university degree is not needed, but is a plus
Benefits
- Work fully remote, or join us in our Cape Town office if you prefer an office environment
- Flat organisation structure. You will work directly with the Head of Product
- Flexibility to work when you want, outside of needing to be available for 3 or 4 weekly meetings
- Unlimited leave
