Full Stack Engineer

Our Mission
The single factor which has the highest impact on the prosperity and well-being of humankind is education. Still, technology has not yet delivered on any of its promises for better learning. At Kognity, we have set out to change this. Our Vision is to radically improve learning for the world’s school students.
Kognity is an all-in-one curriculum-aligned teaching and learning platform with interactive textbooks, analytics, and assessment support. We are experts at combining pedagogy and technology. We offer comprehensive digital teaching and learning resources for the secondary school programs IBDP, IGCSE, and NGSS.
This is just the beginning of our journey. We are looking for global top talent to help us build a significant impact on the world’s young people.
What you'll get to do...
Enhance the entire learning experience for school children and teachers all over the world.
Work in small and autonomous cross-functional teams, alongside experienced Product Managers and UX Designers.
Build new features and functionality into our platform, including glossaries, dictionaries, localisation, teacher customisation, accessibility and 3rd party integrations.
Conduct regular code reviews with continuous integration and agile and lean practices.

Our tech stack
Python, Django
Javascript, Vue.js
Heroku
PostgreSQL

What we can offer you
Flexible working - you can work from anywhere in Sweden or our Stockholm office, your choice.
Healthy work-life balance - we don't have a long work hours culture, we value results over hours worked.
Home office allowance of 5000 SEK
Culture - 20 nationalities, with a shared passion for improving learning for the world’s schoolchildren
A yearly budget to spend on health-related services - gym memberships and exercise classes
30 days of paid vacation every year, with the option to exchange part of your salary for more vacation days
MacBook, mobile phone and regular company swag

How we work
We have a no-blame culture. Mistakes happen. We don’t shame or blame. We look at issues from a process perspective.
We work in squads; each squad has full ownership over one area of our product. Each squad consists of a Product Manager, a UX Designer and 3 to 5 engineers
A clear connection between company vision and daily work, through the use of OKRs
Merge checks on tests and linting rules. This makes it easy to not merge or deploy broken code
Automatic test environments & releases to production, to avoid any human errors
Zero-downtime migration strategy & tools. This allows us to carry out database migrations and changes without any downtime for teachers, and without any unpredictable one-off scripts
A clear process of clarified code review & testing steps before releasing any ticket, making it easy to get things right
Post-mortems. Every major incident is followed by a post-mortem to both share learnings with the whole team, but also to take actions that will prevent it from happening again – strengthening our safety net.



Our hiring process
30 minute introductory chat with a Recruiter; we're pretty friendly :)
Collaborative coding session
A systems design session
A discussion around some of your previous projects and company values




























































































































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