Skritter was founded by 3 college friends and language learners to make learning characters a fast, fun, and easy process. Today it’s the #1 character writing application on the market; providing a completely digital experience for learning to read and write characters. We are a small team with a big, but focused vision of what digital language learning can become.
“Skritter is the big innovation in online Chinese writing practice.”
John Pasden, ChinesePod, AllSet Learning
Upcoming Projects:
- Create a Cordova-based JavaScript application that will unify our web, Android and iOS clients and directly impact thousands of paying Chinese and Japanese language learners.
- Work with cutting edge HTML5 tech: choose your tools and implement your own solutions -- you won't be implementing Stack Overflow responses here.
- Optimize database performance between clients and existing database layer (Google App Engine) with the possibility of migrating to MongoDB.
- Instrument 3rd party libraries to better track and record conversion data.
- Parse and help us derive meaning from our 1.8 terabytes of user engagement information.
- Build internal analytics dashboards to improve our marketing and sales efforts.
- Develop our cross-platform html5 client using modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks (https://github.com/skritter/skritter-html5).
What you bring to the table:
- Strong understanding of modern JavaScript applications including Jade, jQuery, Node and Sass.
- Experience working with BDD testing frameworks like Jasmine or Mocha.
- Located in or able to work for a period of time in Wisconsin to get up to speed with the team.
- (Bonus) Experience working with the Google Cloud Platform services App Engine and Datastore.
Exceptional Candidates Will Have:
- Knowledge of Skritter
- Knowledge of Chinese and/or Japanese
- A BS in Computer Science
Benefits:
- Flexible Schedule
- Small Team Dynamic
- Paid Vacation
- Medical Stipend
- Competitive Salary
Interested?
To apply, send an email to team@skritter.com and let us know why you're the right person for the job. Include your CV/resume and any other information you want. We'll do Google Hangout interviews with qualified candidates. We'll process applications on a rolling basis and will update this post when we've hired someone. Feel free to pass this on to friends who may be interested!
