You will be joining our full stack team as a Budapest-based engineer to develop and maintain the Python/Django backend and React frontend of our educational marketplace.
You will have 1-2 calls per week typically at 17:00-18:00 CET with our California-based team, including the Hungarian CEO. You'll have flexible hours, huge independence and will help us in building our developer culture.
An ideal candidate has a few years of experience with production-grade web application development with the ability and motivation to work on both the backend and frontend part of the application. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are also highly prized.
Maintaining existing features, Designing and developing new features based on tasks descriptions, Integrating third party applications, like Stripe, Zoom and Google Calendar, Improving code quality, Building our developer culture together
Websocket, Git, Slack, Jira, Python, Django, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Heroku, AWS, Stripe, HubSpot, Google Drive, Zoom, TypeScript, React, Next.js
Online marketplace for research mentorship
Polygence is a Stanford- and MIT-founded online academy that pairs intellectually curious high school students with PhD and postdoctoral researcher-mentors to pursue tailor-made research projects in the students' field of interest. Polygence's gives motivated students around the world access and exposure to cutting edge research in their chosen areas of interest.
Polygence's goal is to give motivated students around the world access and exposure to cutting edge research in their chosen areas of interest in both the humanities and in STEM. For many of our students this is their first time doing research and they find this experience both intellectually very rewarding and especially beneficial to their academic advancement.