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Polar
Front-end engineer
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Polar | Front-end engineer | SF or Boulder | onsite preferred, fulltime
We are looking for a co-founder. Equity-based until funding raised. If you join after fundraising, role would be founding engineer with cash / equity comp
About the platform:
Early stage EdTech platform with existing user base and very high retention vs signups. Platform has been live for about a year.
Our platform has seen increased growth since the coronavirus lockdown, since a lot of students use it for remote / collaborative studying
Two co-founders:
- one with technical background. One of the inventors of RSS, spent lifetime in startups
- one with education / business background. PhD in chemistry from Yale, subsequently in consulting / startups
Requirements for role:
- Experienced front end engineer (preferably 5+ years)
- At least few years of React + Javascript experience
- Decent understanding of developing for phone, tablet, desktop
- Strong preference for previous startup experience
- Strong interest in growth, ideally SEO
- Analytical thinking. Deep respect for the scientific method and objective data analysis
Ideal candidate also has experience with react-native, typescript, NodeJS, PDFs or epubs, and Firebase
If interested, msg me at jonathan@getpolarized.io
Please include resume, github, projects you've worked on before