[Job-Listings] Employment Opportunity: Software Engineer - Remote (USA) | Desmos Studio

[David Andrews]

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>Desmos Studio is on a mission to help everyone 
>learn math, love math, and grow with math. We do 
>this by building a free suite of math tools that 
>help people represent their ideas 
>mathematically, connect different 
>representations dynamically, and then conceive 
>entirely new ideas. Our tools are now used by 
>more than 75 million people around the world.
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>As a Public Benefit Corporation, we’re committed 
>to keeping our core products freely available 
>for individual use, not relying on external 
>funding, never allowing 3rd party advertising, 
>and never selling our users’ data. We’re able to 
>stand behind those commitments on the back of 
>being healthily profitable with a transparent 
>business model: we license our software to other 
>companies to enhance their work and incorporate into their products.
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>Our tools engineering team is focused on 
>building best-in-class math tools across 
>graphing, geometry, our new 3d calculator, and 
>more. Our platform engineering team is focused 
>on developing the other aspects of creating a 
>great web and mobile platform including 
>supporting first time users, product-led growth 
>of community, and partnerships. Both teams are 
>hiring new team members as we work to expand our 
>general reach and improve every user’s experience.
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>Our engineering team builds elegant and flexible 
>systems that can quickly respond to design and 
>pedagogy demands. We are often tasked with 
>coming up with creative solutions to get an 
>interaction feeling just right. We empower our 
>users to create delightful and meaningful math experiences.
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>What to Expect from the Role
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>What you should show up ready to teach anyone on your first day:
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>    * How a healthy engineering culture helps 
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>    * A 5-minute summary of any basic computer science topic.
>    * Design decisions in a piece of code you 
> wrote, including alternatives and trade offs you made.
>    * How would you improve 
> <https://jsbin.com/zutoquv/edit?html,js,output>this piece of code?
>    * Comfort with jumping into multiple areas 
> of a codebase such as Typescript, Postgres, dev tools, and HTML/CSS.
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>What you’ll learn more about after you’re hired:
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>    * Our commitment to 
> <http://learn.desmos.com/accessibility>accessibility 
> and how to keep accessibility in mind during the development process.
>    * Our approach to building software that 
> works every time - scoping, design, 
> architecture, code review, testing, automation, monitoring, etc.
>    * Our 1-year goals, long term aspirations, 
> and how being a Public Benefit Corporation 
> manifests in our work as a profitable business.
>    * Our communities of users, including on 
> <https://discord.me/unofficialdesmos>Discord 
> and <https://www.reddit.com/r/desmos/>Reddit, 
> and how we learn from and with them.
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>Within your first week, you’ll:
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>    * Introduce yourself on Slack to your new co-workers!
>    * Learn about our process for writing, testing, and deploying code.
>    * Ship your first piece of code to production!
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>Within your first month, you’ll:
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>    * Familiarize yourself with Typescript and 
> our in-house, front-end framework.
>    * Complete your first user-facing feature in 
> collaboration with other teams (product, design, business).
>    * Start reviewing code from other engineers 
> on the team, bringing your keen eye for 
> pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems.
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>Within your first three months, you’ll:
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>    * Be the technical lead on your first 
> project, guiding it from design to implementation.
>    * Participate in experimentation and review 
> data to help inform product features
>    * Get to know our users and better 
> understand the role that Desmos plays inside and outside of the classroom.
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>Within your first year, you’ll:
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>    * Help the team enter a promising new market outside of K-12 education.
>    * Become the company’s expert on one or more areas of the code base.
>    * Help hire and onboard new members of the engineering team.
>    * Take a vacation to recharge. We do our 
> best work when we’re happy and well-rested.
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>As part of the team, you’ll receive:
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>    * Competitive compensation. Every full-time 
> member of the team receives generous stock and 
> salary compensation as well as a 401(k) match of up to 5% of annual salary.
>    * Great benefits. We offer medical, vision, 
> dental, short-term disability, long term 
> disability, and life insurance. We also offer 
> Medical and Dependent Care FSAs, a minimum of 
> 30 days off (including 19 full-company holidays), and more!
>    * Flexible hours. We’re a fully remote team, 
> and everyone sets their own hours.
>    * Work-life balance. We value results over 
> hours and sustainable, long-term success over short-term wins.
>    * Ownership and influence. As a member of a 
> small team with few external stakeholders, each 
> person here plays a major role in defining our 
> policies, goals, culture, and benefits.
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>Does this sound like a role you could see 
>yourself in? Submit an application which 
>includes your resume and thoughts on why you’d like to work at Desmos Studio.
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>About Desmos Studio PBC
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>Desmos Studio is a Public Benefit Corporation 
>with a goal of helping everyone learn math, love 
>math, and grow with math. We believe that 
>everyone has an inner mathematician and that 
>some people haven’t been given the opportunity, 
>encouragement, or tools to discover theirs. So 
>we prioritize equity and accessibility at every level of our work.
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>Our free suite of math tools, including our 
>Graphing Calculator, is used annually by over 75 
>million people around the world. Those tools 
>help people represent their ideas 
>mathematically, connect different 
>representations dynamically, make conjectures, 
>and then develop entirely new ideas. They also 
>result in some pretty spectacular art.
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>We partner with the world's most popular 
>curricula and learning software, and with the 
>majority of U.S. state-level assessments and digital college entrance exams.
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>Our Hiring Process
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>Final Interviews
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>References
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>Phone Call with Hiring Manager
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>Project Interview
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>Final Interviews
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