Kiron Open Higher Education gGmbH is hiring a Software Engineer - React, GraphQL in Berlin

Kiron Open Higher Education is a non-profit organization offering free online learning opportunities to refugees and underserved communities worldwide since 2015. Through the platform, Kiron Campus, students receive access to high-quality higher education and a large online student community. Kiron’s innovative model consists of free, tailor-made study programs by clustering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from renowned educational providers and Open Educational Resources (OERs) for academic, professional and personal growth.

How you can contribute to our mission:

• Join one of our product development teams and commit to working with a strong user-focus so that we can build products that help a wide range of refugee students
• Help us improve Kiron Campus – a web application for online learning built with React + GraphQL (‘Express’ implementation)
• Join us to implement a 1st-class offline and low-network learning experience through our apps, serving an atypical set of user devices and bandwidth problems
• Contribute to building better Open Educational Resources by creating new web applications for students and staff to build new lessons and online learning materials. Our current tooling for this is React + Laravel + OctoberCMS.
• Collaborate with your wildly cross-functional team from engineering, product and design, instructional and educational design
• Take ownership and help set direction for the functionalities you are building for the Kiron applications

What you need to make an impact:

• You share our vision of free and democratic access to education for refugees and disadvantaged communities worldwide
• You possess strong experience working with Javascript (2+ years) and a strong familiarity with modern frontend JS frameworks such as React
• You have experience working in an agile delivery team
• You are fluent in English

How we will enable you to do your best work:

• The chance to be part of a fun, dynamic, international, interdisciplinary, and highly committed team
• The chance to shape a fast-growing social startup with your initiative and creative input
• A (mostly) bleeding edge tech stack. Keywords: React, Flow, GraphQL (Apollo), PWA, TWA, Laravel, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
• Flexible working hours, 30 vacation days and a generous home office policy
• A dog-friendly and spacious office in Lichtenberg with beautiful sunset views