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About YaizY

YaizY is a US-based edtech startup transforming K12 education as the leader in the "passion-to-profession" category. We prepare students with hard and soft skills to pursue digital careers in fast-growing fields. With our proven, hands-on learning model, we bridge the widening digital divide between traditional education and the future of work.

Our courses aim not only at helping kids explore their passions - be it in animation, design or entrepreneurship - they also help them chart pathways to their future careers and enable them with the most relevant digital tools.

YaizY was launched in mid-2020, and since then has raised $4M+ in investments from prominent VC funds, and established operations in the US, UK and Israel. We have served over 25,000 students, and partnered with more than 100 leading educational organizations in countries of presence.

The Role

We are looking for a bright, energetic fullstack developer who will be responsible for the development of our digital platform.

YaizY platform consists of 3 main elements:

• Main website (yaizy.io) with Student's dashboard
• Backoffice with proprietary LMS
• Live lesson interface with the video conference, chat and interactive mechanics.
  

Stack

• Vue/Nuxt.js + Typescript (vue-property-decorator), Lerna
• PHP7 / Symfony.
• Strapi CMS
• Gitlab CI
• Websockets (socket.io);
• Docker, docker-compose
  

Requirements

• Full time, remote
• Minimum qualifications: Excellent Vue (vue / vuex / vue -router)
• Preferred qualifications: PHP7, Symfony, Nuxt.js, Typescript
• Decisive advantage: Understanding of relational databases and understanding principles of good architecture (SOLID, KISS, DRY)
  

Benefits

• Competitive compensation (in USD)
• Remote working environment and flexible working hours
• Passionate and experienced team, zero bureaucracy
• Variable and interesting tasks
• Possibility to grow and develop quickly
  

Key Responsibilities

• 3+ years of experience with Node.js building services using REST APIs;
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases;
• An end-to-end understanding of software life cycle;
• Experience designing and leading software projects;
• Degree in Computer Science or related technology field;
• Ability to listen, communicate, evaluate, problem solve, multi-task, and prioritize in a high-pressure, mission-critical, and rewarding team environment.
  

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience with NestJS/Express;
• Experience with queues, streams, and functions;
• Experience with distributed systems;
• Experience with AWS Cloud Services (EKS/RDS/SQS/etc);
• Experience with Laravel/Lumen Framework.
  

Benefits

• Flexible office policy - You can work from wherever you want or from our cozy office in Tashkent. You can even combine both - few days in the office and few days remote;
• 5/2 work week, 8 hours a day;
• Official employment in accordance with Uzbekistan's Labor Laws;
• You are expected to be available for communication between 18:00 to 23:00 Tashkent time (because you'll be working with the US team located in New York);
• Frequent team-building activities and internal hackathons;
• Health insurance;
• Group exercises;
• Reimbursement for sport.

What you'll do:

• Development of fintech services
• Interaction with a feature-team for the successful implementation of tasks
• Development of technical solutions from MVP to industrial infrastructure that ensures reliable operation and load scaling

What you will need in order to be successful:

• Fluency in Swift language
• Good knowledge of the UIKit framework, ability to write layout in code
• Understanding of the MVP or VIPER architecture. Experience with UDF-architectures (TCA)
• Experience with a multi-module project
• Multithreading, including async/await
• SwiftUI knowledge
• Swift Package Manager

Nice to have:

• Reactive Programming skills
• Experience with Unit and UI tests

What we offer:

• Opportunity to participate in the creation of a new and innovative company
• Great working atmosphere in a strong, motivated and dynamic team!
• ESOP motivation program
• Healthcare benefits, Language courses
• A Vivid prime subscription for free
• Work remotely or relocation allowance to Cyprus and Kazakhstan

Future challenges:

• Participation in the product development for the financial sector;
• Participation in the design of the product architecture's billing part;
• Participation in the backlog formation of the product's financial part;
• Participation in the formation of technical solutions for sprint tasks;
• Work in the feature team using LeSS.
  

We expect:

• Good knowledge of PHP7, 7.4, 8;
• Experience with mvc frameworks;
• Good knowledge of Symfony;
• Experience writing Unit tests (PHPUnit);
• OOP understanding;
• Experience working with relational databases (MySQL/Percona) and NOSQL(redis);
• SOLID, DRY, KISS, YAGNI understanding and the ability to apply them in practice;
• Synchronization primitives (mutex) understanding;
• Finding performance weaknesses and ways to eliminate them (logging, monitoring);
• Experience with application and usage of design patterns;
• *nix user-level experience;
• Experience with message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
  

As an advantage:

• Knowledge of DevOps (SRE) practices, have had experience with Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes;
• Experience working with microservices;
• Experience working with DDD;
• Practical experience with Golang;
• Experience building dashboards using ELK;
• Knowledge in the Crypto Currencies field (general understanding of blockchain);
• Knowledge in writing code with OWASP in mind;
• Desire to develop additional competencies (T-shaped skills).
  

We offer:

• Relocation package;
• Lack of bureaucracy in the implementation of your ideas;
• High level of professionalism of the team members;
• Work on international markets;
• Support and assistance in professional growth (seminars, courses, trainings, internal training);
• Health Insurance with dentistry (including spouse and children);
• Flexible start time;
• Free lunches;
• Free English lessons;
• Partial compensation for wellness activities (sports, yoga, swimming pool, etc.)/ sessions with a psychologist;
• Cosy office in the Centre Of Tbilisi (Georgia).

Responsibilities:

• Build high-performance databases, and improve data models;
• Machine learning algorithm deployment;
• Manage data and meta-data;
• Set standards for data transformation/processing;
• Perform data analysis and implement solutions to improve processes;
• Development of data-related instruments/instances;
• Write unit/integration tests to maintain accuracy in the data models;
• Track pipeline stability;
• Drive the collaboration process with other team members.

Required qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in designing and developing Python-based solutions;
• Technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques;
• Experience with algorithms/data structures;
• Hands-on experience with SQL database design;
• Good knowledge of Python standard library (multiprocessing, threading, and asyncio);
• Good knowledge of python libraries for data analytics- NumPy, pandas, numba, dask, scikit-learn;
• Knowledge of Python web frameworks- flask, tornado, FastAPI;
• Familiarity with deployment tools such as Docker, Anaconda;  Cloud platforms such as Google or AWS and their data-related services;
• Familiarity with web scraping libraries: scrappy, selenium, beautiful soup;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams;
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques;
  Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar field; a Master’s is a plus;

Benefits & Perks:

• Health Insurance;
• Company stock options;
• Individual Benefit package (serves for your work and life balance)
• "Work From Home" Days;
• Individual KPI (Key Performance Indicator);
• Access to advisers including advisory board member at NASA Health Institute and serial founders to help us grow, personally and professionally;
• Weekly team events;
• Technical and soft-skills trainings;
• Variety of knowledge-sharing and self-development opportunities.