Careers at Tynker

Senior Product Designer (UX/UI)

Tynker is looking for a senior level strategic thinker who will turn ideas into amazing interactive products that engage our primary customers – kids! You will be responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from defining customer needs to delivering prototypes and UI specifications.

Tynker is the #1 Kids Coding platform and helps millions of students learn coding. Our self-paced courses and creativity tools guide them from block coding to JavaScript, Swift and and Python. Tynker's mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in STEM, programming and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Expand Tynker’s creativity suite with art and music extensions
• Improve coding IDE functionality and ease of use
• Identify interaction needs across all user states and ages
• Deliver user flows, prototypes, and user interactions
• Define and document experiences across all of our supported mediums – web, touch tablets, and phone
• Collaborate with executive team on strategy, roadmap and direction
• Incorporate feedback from customers, developers and design team members
• Produce detailed dev specifications and handoff deliverables to developers
• Run user testing sessions and surveys

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years experience in interaction and product interface design
• 3+ years experience for touch-based mobile interfaces
• Experience building digital tools and documenting app interactions
• Strong visual and iconography skills
• Ability to drive the entire design process from ideation to implementation
• Strong self-management skills and product delivery ownership
• Well-versed in user-centered design methods and best practices
• Expertise using wireframe tools and generating interactive hi-fi prototypes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment without sacrificing quality
• Ability to negotiate and articulate the "why" of design decisions. You'll need to convince, to disagree confidently, take and give straightforward criticism.
• Strong portfolio with examples of functional tool designs across web and mobile platforms
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or Graphic Design

Bonus Points for the Following:

• Experience working with children’s products and services
• Technical background with knowledge of Web standards - HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Experience with game and level design
• Deep familiarity with iOS, Android, and/or Windows 8 design standards
• Other visual design experience

All candidates must send a portfolio or work samples along with their inquiries, these should include examples of amazing visually rich interfaces and UX processes.

If interested, please send your resume with a link to your portfolio to jobs.

Senior User Interface (UI)/Visual Designer

We are looking for a detail-oriented, pixel perfect User Interface designer to help us take our products to the next level! You will be responsible for defining and maintaining the look and feel for our web experiences.

Ideal candidate has exceptional visual design skills and experience defining a visual brand language. You’ll be responsible for creating breathtaking designs that include delivering the concept, theme, color, typography and style for web and mobile platforms. Even more important, our visual designer needs to be able to make these designs a reality and bring them to life through creating and helping identify the code behind the designs. You will work closely with the executive team, interaction designers, and customers to iterate with an agile developer team to define the user interface. Success will be measured by your ability to create delightful experiences that engage our primary audience – kids!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design stunning dashboard interfaces that are easy to use, easy to understand, and reflect our brand
• Design and maintain design pattern libraries across all of Tynker's platforms
• Engage students to progress in their coding courses and support course assets
• Help parents understand the importance of coding and what Tynker has to offer
• Captivate audiences across website, app, and integrated marketing channels
• Help shape brand positioning, landing pages, and promotional material for international coding events
• Collaborate with UX designers on end-to-end experiences for screen designs
• Explore visual ideations and prototype motion design for digital interfaces
• Support illustration iconography design
• Identify the stylistic changes needed across the various age ranges
• Work with developers to hand off deliverables

Requirements:

• At least 5 years experience as a visual interface designer
• At least 2 years designing touch-optimized layouts for web or mobile applications
• Experience designing for product dashboards, progression-based goals, and multiple user states.
• Expertise in branding through visual communication
• BA, BFA or higher degree in HCI, computer science, design or related studies
• Need to stand out as an exceptional visual thinker with a great sense of aesthetics and a deep understanding of composition, grid, typography, and high fidelity creations
• Proven track record and a passion for designing compelling user interfaces with a fluency in current design practices and expertise with tools such as Sketch, XD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Comfort/ passion for working through complex information architectures and abstracting into a powerful UI and obsessed with good user-centered design practices and have an eye for detail
• Able to work under pressure in a timely manner without sacrificing quality
• Ability to negotiate and articulate the "why" of design decisions. You'll need to convince, to disagree confidently, take and give straightforward criticism.
• Strong portfolio with examples of of unique and original designs for web and mobile platforms and understanding the coding of the designs is a must

Bonus Points for the Following:

• Game design experience of any kind a plus
• Experience working with children’s products and services is a plus
• Experience in creation of logos, identity, and corporate branding materials
• Excellent Icon design
• Front-end development skills and a command of interactive web technologies (HTML5, CSS/SCSS, Java Script, Ajax)
• Deep familiarity with iOS, Android, and/or Windows 8 GUI standards

All candidates must send a portfolio or work samples along with their inquiries, these should include examples of amazing visually rich interfaces.

If interested, please send your resume with a link to your portfolio to jobs.

Part-Time Coding Tutor

Tynker is looking for part-time tutors who share our passion in preparing kids for the next millennium. The ideal candidate is a college graduate, comfortable with teaching students, and an expert in the subject. We’ve designed the role to be flexible, remote, and part-time so that you can work on your schedule, from the comfort of home. You will love to thrive in this rewarding atmosphere where you’ll make a positive difference every day!

Tynker’s highly successful coding curriculum has been used by one in three U.S. K-8 schools, 90,000 schools globally, and over 60 million kids across 150 countries. Tynker enables students of all ages to develop the coding skills to design and power animations, games, music, robots and drones, smart devices, virtual worlds like Minecraft, and more.

If you are passionate about working with kids, and love a career in education, your job search stops right here. Get in on the ground floor of an innovative new company that is changing the way kids learn and leverage technology.

Responsibilities:

• Learn Tynker’s fun and easy coding curriculum
• Conduct live virtual tutoring sessions using our platform
• Teach 1-on-1 or work with small groups of students
• Make your sessions fun and engaging for our eager learners
• Create a positive environment where all students can grow
• Answer student questions and help them when they are stuck on a problem
• Maintain a high quality of education in every session
• Be enthusiastic and positive!

Qualifications:

• Background in programming, Computer Science or similar technical field.
• 2+ years working history teaching kids aged 7 and up.
• Comfortable programming one or more languages: Scratch, Tynker, Python, JavaScript
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to handle a class with many students
• A passion for education and helping kids
• A high level of energy and motivation

Subjects:

• Game Design - Block Programming
• Minecraft Modding using Block Programming
• Creative Coding - Block Programming
• Python
• JavaScript
• HTML and CSS
• AP Computer Science Principles
• AP Computer Science A

If interested, please send your resume to jobs.

USA Applicants Only

Software Engineer - Back-End Development - Porto

We are looking for a strong back-end developer to lead the development of our educational platform that revolutionizes the way schools use technology. As a Senior Web Developer you’ll be responsible for building reusable frameworks, creating scalable district-level tools, refining our metrics and data-collection architecture, and constantly scaling our services to support growth. Join a dynamic team of developers to come up with new and stimulating ways to engage young learners to get creative with code!

Tynker is used by over 90,000 schools and is the leading Kids Coding platform helping millions of students learn coding. Our learning platform delivers courses that teach block coding students in kindergarten to high school where they learn JavaScript and Python. Tynker’s mission is to provide every child with solid foundations in STEM, programming and critical thinking skills to prepare them to become better architects of their future world.

Primary Tasks

• Write efficient back-end code that handles millions of users
• Define data models to support the user experience across multiple platforms
• Design elegant APIs to power our suite of apps
• Iterate and improve experiences periodically based on feedback
• Perform data engineering tasks to support our machine learning efforts

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years of professional experience building and maintaining large scale web applications (100K+ users)
• Full grasp of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX-based JSON/XML web services
• Must be comfortable with using PHP 7+, Mongo, and other back-end technologies
• Must be able to quickly adapt and learn to work within an unfamiliar codebase
• Must be familiar with various design and architectural patterns
• Should have experience consuming and designing creating RESTful APIs
• Should understand modern front-end architectures and be able to modify JavaScript code
• Demonstrated ability to be self-driven and work with minimal supervision
• Strong object oriented fundamentals preferred
• Experience with LMS, Google Classroom, Clever Secure Sync or Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), is a big plus
• Familiarity with AWS EC2 is a plus

If interested, please send your resume to jobs.

Resumes from recruiters will NOT be accepted.