Golang / Go Job: Full-stack developer

Full-stack developer at CottageClass

New York, New York, United States 🇺🇸   (Posted Oct 4 2017)
About the company
CottageClass is a community marketplace for childhood education. We offer independent teachers the opportunity to build and sustain microschools, extracurricular enrichment, summer camps, and other community based programs for children ages 0-18. We use a data-driven approach to source supply to fill unmet demand in early childhood, afterschool (with 50% unmet demand) and homeschooling (an industry growing at 15% annually) At CottageClass learning experiences are diverse and reflect local and global priorities. We select our teachers based on their particular expertise and on the needs and values of our diverse populations.

To explore learning opportunities for your child, visit http://www.cottageclass.com

To become a teacher on CottageClass, visit

http://www.cottageclass.com/teach

Job position
Permanent / Freelance - Remote work possible
Relocation compensation available

Job description
CottageClass (Techstars '17) is an early stage startup based in NYC. As a teacher for 15 years, I founded CottageClass to empower independent teachers to start their own schools, classes and camps to fill specific unmet educational needs in their communities. In little over a year, we've generated 1MM in GMV and served 400 families in NYC. Our investors/advisors include Learn Capital and the co/founder of Airbnb. We need a lead engineer to take over our current platform and help us scale, Architect, develop, manage and maintain entire CottageClass software platform. This is an exciting opportunity to to help build an early stage startup at the seed stage as we start expanding to new geographies. We are looking for someone who is excited about using customer discovery to develop a custom platform for teachers running microschools.

Skills & requirements
Full stack developer, go lang, product expertise, experience leading technical teams a plus, but not required. -

ability to develop two-sided marketplace platform utilizing microservice architecture

MongoDB, Go for the 9 backend microservices, and ReactJS/Flux for the web client

develop customized payment processing system, built on top of Stripe, to facilitate flexible payment plans for parents and unique payment schedules for teachers (specific to the platform's domain).

Instructions how to apply
Email manisha@cottageclass.com
Company website: CottageClass

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