Sr. JavaScript/Full Stack Engineer

Job description
Our growing team is looking for a JavaScript Ecosystem Engineer to help guide our software design and systems and build a solid foundation for future development. If you are obsessed with software craftsmanship, automating everything, reusable components with style guides, and simple yet elegant architectures, then let’s talk.

Founded in 2003, Ocelot is higher education’s #1 SaaS provider of multilingual AI chatbots, serving over 6.5 million students at over 400 institutions. The Ocelot tech stack employs TypeScript, React, Node.js, and a Drupal CMS. Everything is deployed on AWS. Our agile engineering team is remote-first with staff working from home most of the time.

Responsibilities:

Code new features
Always improving our development experience
Participate in planning meetings, development activities, deployment, and monitoring
Shape and guide our JavaScript ecosystem code and architecture
Maintain high standards of quality, velocity, and craftsmanship
Recruit and mentor software engineers
Required Qualifications:

10+ years of relevant software development experience
5+ years of JavaScript development experience
5+ years of experience with Node.js
5+ years of React.js experience
Proficient with Docker, React.js, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB technologies
Skilled with AWS, Linux and web server administration
Skilled with Typescript, Redux, Jest
Experienced with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular
Strong working knowledge with development tools including Git and JIRA
Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Next.js or other server-side rendered JavaScript framework
Experience with AI and Machine Learning
Experience with MQ including ActiveMQ
Experience with ElasticSearch and solr
Experience as a Technical Lead, Architect, or Scrum Master is a plus