Job location: San Mateo, CA

Employer: IXL Learning

Employment Type: Full-Time Job

Job Description

We are currently seeking to hire highly motivated iOS Software Engineers who will lead in the creation of a breakthrough user experience by developing the primary features of a new iPhone and iPad application.

Mobile Apps Engineer | Requirements:

• 1 to 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Familiarity with back-end development.
• A good understanding of managing limited resources (memory, network, CPU) efficiently. 
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical-reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate in a small team.
• Passion for improving education through technology.
• Knowledge of iOS app development (familiarity with Core Data, Quartz Core, and OCUnit/SenTestKit) is a plus.

Company Description 

IXL Learning is an educational technology company like no other. We develop dramatically innovative, first-of-their-kind products used by millions of learners, from children to adults. Our IXL product (located at IXL.com) is the world’s most popular subscription-based learning site for K-12. Our other products include Quia Web, the original ‘create-your-own’ website for teachers, and Quia Books, the leading online platform for world-languages courses.

Job location: San Francisco, CA

Employer: Quizlet

Employment Type: Full-Time Job

Job Description

Lead iOS Developer

Want to be the lead iOS developer building incredibly beautiful and usable apps for one of the top education sites in the world with a top education app in the iTunes App Store?  Join a small team on a rapidly scaling site that directly impacts people’s lives!

The Role

Millions of students and teachers around the world rely on Quizlet’s web-based tools, but our mobile reach is just getting started.  You will own the Quizlet experience on iOS, building out new features for our iPhone app with a pre-existing user base of 1.5 million and imagining an iPad app from scratch.

You must care passionately about design and user experience, and develop a deep understanding of how users interact with Quizlet.  The intuitive UI features you build will drive user engagement and thus directly affect the magnitude of Quizlet’s impact on education.  

Quizlet’s Team Culture

We are extremely proud of and attentive to the powerful impact our software is having on people’s lives across the U.S. and the world.  Quality, speed, and usability across all platforms is our obsession and have helped Quizlet grow organically to a top 200 U.S. website.  We believe quality and impact arises directly from our close proximity to users and product.  All team members regularly visit classrooms across the Bay Area to see Quizlet used live by real users.  We believe in each other—every member has the confidence and flexibility to take a stab at new problems across the web stack and actively drive key product design and functionality decisions.  We love technology and we love helping people.  Come join us!

See some of our user testimonials at http://quizlet.com/stories for a taste of the feedback we receive on a daily basis, driving us to make even better products.

iOS Developer | Requirements

The ideal iOS team member for Quizlet should:

• Have proven experience building his or her own high quality iOS apps, ideally in the iTunes App Store
• Have deep background in Objective-C and and understand iOS at a deep level

• Be obsessed with Apple-level, quality product
• Be deeply excited about the impact his or her work could have in the lives of students and teachers every day

Company Description

Quizlet is a pioneer in education technology with proven traction and HUGE growth ahead.  We’re seeking talented and experienced developers who want to build tools that redesign education for users globally.  We’re a bootstrapped, cash-flow positive startup with a successful business model.  Come join a team of just a handful of engineers building and deploying new products to over 1 million users a day.  While Quizlet has already reached an astounding 15 million uniques a month, this is only the beginning.  Our opportunity is to tackle ambitious new projects that enable novel study experiences for hundreds of millions of students moving forward.