SpanishDict

What You’ll Be Doing

Building interactive learning features to help SpanishDict become the primary learning product for Spanish-English learners
Improving the performance and reliability of high-profile features
Collaborating with your team to shape the technical requirements of new initiatives
Full stack web development using technologies like TypeScript, Node.js, React, SQL, AWS, and Docker

What We’re Looking For

BA/BS or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Thoughtful problem-solving: You can decompose complex problems and work towards a clean and practical solution, by yourself or with teammates. You know what resources to use when you have questions, and you know when to ask for help when you get stuck
Shipping quality user interfaces: You can work with others to build and maintain quality user interfaces for a big audience, using Web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React
Familiarity with the backend: You understand all levels of the stack and understand how they work together. Candidates should have experience building APIs and data models and working with SQL. Familiarity with AWS is a bonus
Put users first: You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes our Spanish and English learners
Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you are explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed
Team player: You understand when work is better, together. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same

WHAT TYPES OF PROJECTS DO WE WORK ON?

We developed a pipeline for authoring pronunciations, recording videos, and displaying them on the website using React, AWS Lambda, and AWS S3
We built conjugation drills that provide unlimited Spanish conjugation practice for every verb in every tense using React, Node.js, and MySQL
We built our own classroom learning management system, which allows teachers to assign lessons and track student progress
We built SpanishDict Premium, which offers exclusive content to tens of thousands of our most dedicated learners
We deploy a high-availability, automated, and scalable server infrastructure on AWS with an uptime of more than 99.999%

WHAT’S THE CULTURE LIKE?

We’ve brought together a talented team that is down-to-earth, friendly, and driven to build products that people use and love
Our technology stack is state-of-the-art, and we pride ourselves on an engineering culture committed to data-informed decisions, focus on value, rapid iteration, broad test coverage, extensive automation, peer-reviewed code, and fast deployments
Software drives our business, and we understand the value of having time for engineers to focus on technical priorities
Curiosity Media is a division of IXL learning. We have a small team dedicated to SpanishDict, which means every engineer on the team has a huge impact across millions of users and very low barriers to getting things done