Prodigy Education is a global leader in game-based learning and is one of the fastest-growing EdTech companies in North America. Our mission is to help every student in the world love learning, motivating millions worldwide via fun, secure and accessible curriculum-aligned gameplay experiences. Visit
www.prodigygame.com to learn more.
The Engineering team builds and operates a high performance, scalable, reliable, and secure technology platform that will allow us to transform education and deliver effective learning experiences to every student in the world. We do this by building for tomorrow, failing fast and early, and empowering each other to make things better. Interested in learning more about what we're working on? Visit the Prodigy Engineering blog at
https://medium.com/prodigy-engineering
Your impact at Prodigy will be focused on achieving our mission to help every student in the world love learning. Together, we will build world class mobile applications for every student to play on, and for every parent to participate in their child’s learning journey. By applying your mobile design, development, and testing methodologies, you will play an integral role in building a trusting relationship with hundreds of thousands of Prodigy users.
Your Impact
- Take ownership of project components and processes, guiding them from inception through completion in a timely manner.
- Design solutions to medium complexity problems, managing simplicity, completeness, performance, and risk tolerance.
- Seek and incorporate feedback; handle testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Provide thoughtful and constructive code reviews.
- You will mentor junior engineers, highlight their accomplishments, and help them find their way in the organization.
- Take the initiative and pitch in. You jump into areas that need your help, you leave code better than when you found it, and you actively contribute to your team’s or the engineering organization's priorities.
- Applying your expertise to solve problems where you’re familiar, or helping to find the right person to solve problems where you’re not.
About You
- A React / React Native developer with 2+ years experience building mobile applications using JavaScript, or TypeScript
- Experience creating client facing Android and iOS applications and deploying them to the Apple App Store or Google Play Store
- A Communicator: You write and speak clearly, concisely, and confidently, breaking down complex concepts into layman’s terms for your customer
- A People Person: You’re empathetic and energized by talking to and helping people
- Quality-minded: You have excellent attention to detail and high quality standards, challenging the status quo to get the most effective results
- A Problem Solver: You ask the right questions and use all resources at your disposal to get to the root of a problem
- An Ambassador of Prodigy’s values: You’re driven to do what’s most beneficial for the User, to lead with a radically candid mentality, you seek out learning experiences and demonstrate accountability on every task
Core Technologies
- Backend: Node.js, GraphQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, AWS, Python/Django
- Frontend: React / React Native, Typescript
Working at Prodigy
- Why Prodigy? Here at Prodigy, our employees are the foundation of our organization - an asset that transforms our mission into a reality! For this reason, we offer our employees a Total Rewards Program that is geared towards their financial, physical and mental well-being.
Benefits
- Employees receive full health benefits from day one! Including separate allocation for mental health.
- Employee stock options and savings plan
- $500.00 to create your own work from home set-up
- We pride ourselves on constant learning, which is why we offer our employees an annual learning fund of $1200.00
- Prodigy Savings Program (RRSP, TFSA)
- We value wellness, so in addition to wellness classes and benefits, we also offer an additional $720.00 fund to all employees
Prodigy Perks
- Flexibility to choose whether you work from home or in-office, based on what works best on any given day
- Flexible working hours
- Monthly “no meeting day” Tuesdays
- Extended long weekends throughout the year!
- Want to work from anywhere in the world? We offer 4 weeks of "work from anywhere" per year!
Please note: the privacy and security of our users are of the utmost importance to us, and all employees will be expected to act in accordance with Prodigy’s stringent security policies.
- Follow us @ProdigyCareers and Instagram to learn more, or visit our website at www.prodigygame.com to view additional benefits and perks and our Culture Blog. #LI-SM1, #LI-Hybrid
Come as you are. We believe the power of our collective potential will transform education. We are building towards a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to empower and create access and opportunity for all. We welcome applications from people from all underrepresented groups, including (but not limited to) people of any gender, age, or religion, members of the LGBTQIA2+ community, BIPOC and other underrepresented races and nationalities, people with disabilities, veterans, and anyone who may contribute to the further diversification of Prodigy Education. If you feel like you don’t have all the qualifications for this position and are willing to use your initiative to learn the rest, we’d still love for you to apply!
We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA). Prodigy Education will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation, please notify us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.
