Front-End Web Developer

About Kahoot! DragonBox

Kahoot! DragonBox is the world-renowned pedagogical studio that has earned global fame for its innovative math learning apps for children. In 2012, its first learning game –DragonBox Algebra– became an instant hit. Children, teachers, parents and press hailed it as a radically new way to learn math. In 2018, the company launched DragonBox School: a full-curriculum solution for mathematics that is currently showing great growth in schools in Norway, Finland and France.

We champion a positive culture of collaborative learning and innovation. With a team of more than 500 employees representing 45 different nationalities, we’re a diverse and fun bunch of people! The values guiding us are: we are playful, curious and inclusive!

Job description

Dragonbox is in an exciting transitional moment as we explore deeper integrations of our innovative, learning software into the Web. We're looking for someone with a broad range of practical experience to work across teams and take ownership for the design and implementation of our next generation of web solutions. You should be comfortable working in a collaborative environment, facile with various web technologies and their use cases, and motivated by our mission to deliver the best learning experiences to children.

The position is based in our Paris office and will report to the Kahoot! DragonBox Lead Commercial Developer.

• Your tasks will be as follows
• Collaborate with multiple teams and implement features for public-facing websites
• Provide the technical leadership and expertise to scale and mature new and existing web properties.
• Lead the project to replace our current CMS'es, including requirements, design, and build phases.
• Maintain and develop various websites, from public CMS'es to internal tools, static to dynamic sites, and server to client-rendered code (and everything in-between).
• Understand and advise on trade-offs to various front-end integration techniques (e.g. iFrames, Web Components, Portal Element).

Preferred experience

• We are looking for someone who has:
• Experience implementing various web design/layout methodologies, for various form factors, and can speak to their tradeoffs.
• Experience integrating with CDNs.
• Worked with media and animations on the web.
• Experience implementing WCAG-compliant designs.
• Knowledge of existing and emerging Web Standards.
• Expertise with JavaScript/TypeScript and DOM
• The ability to work autonomously and prioritize based on the larger needs of the organization. You should be self-motivated, an effective communicator, and enjoy working with people from diverse backgrounds.

Ideally you would also have experience with:

• One or more CMSes and Information Architecture Concepts
• Node.js Experience
• A statically-typed non-JavaScript language

Concerned that your CV doesn't contain the right tech buzzwords? We'd still like to hear from you! We're not obsessed with the specific web technologies you've worked with considering the entire web space is in perpetual revolution. Learning is at the core of our company philosophy and it's important that our hiring process reflects this!

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Share option plan
• Holiday bonus
• Flexible working hours
• 50% public transport or bike-sharing services coverage
• 100% health insurance coverage
• Immerse yourself in a collaborative, fun and agile working culture