Frontend Engineer

Want to use your front-end skills to make an impact? AI is the new electricity. Millions of AI engineers are needed to transform industries with AI, particularly in the realm of GenAI, and we’re building education products to train them. With a mission to grow and connect the global AI community, DeepLearning.AI is an education technology company that is empowering the global workforce to build an AI-powered future through world-class education, hands-on training, and a collaborative community. We’re a small ed-tech company with serious credentials, exciting courses, and wonderful teammates. 

DeepLearning.AI is looking for a Frontend Engineer with strong computer science fundamentals with a passion for improving learners' experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in an early development stage of a leading educational environment focusing on AI-related topics. As a Frontend Engineer you will be responsible for building and delivering high-quality experiences for the technical content deeplearning.ai is providing. Our team is growing fast, and we are looking for a strong engineer to develop our educational products. In this role, you will work alongside a team of talented content creators as well as our outside partners, to build various layers of the infrastructure of world-renowned AI-driven education.

This is a full-time opportunity for candidates based in Taipei.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Develop a learner-centered platform to deliver the best learning experience for the deeplearning.ai learners.
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness and scalability of the developed application.
• Develop UI interface and interaction flow of the learner-centered design.
• Design and develop internal tools to help our teams iterate quickly.
• Maintain a high-quality code base and write clear documentation.
• Evaluate usability and visual consistency of existing designs.
• Tackle complex user interaction problems and build simple, logical, and effective solutions.
• Responsible for developing payment processing systems like accepting data, securely storing that info, and making charges to that payment.

Here are the skills you should have:

• Broad and solid CS foundation knowledge, including data structures & algorithms, OS, computer networks, and databases.
• A bachelor's degree in CS or a related technical field is required.
• At least 5+ years of software development experience and experience building end-to-end projects.
• Strong ability to convert ideas to running code.
• Familiarity with React.js and Next.js.
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development.
• Previous experience with Typescript, tRPC and Tailwind.
• Knowledge of security concerns and best practices.
• Excellent verbal and oral communication skills in both Mandarin and English.
• A keen interest in the Artificial Intelligence domain.

Bonus if you have:

• Familiarity with the Next.js App Router module.
• Familiarity with the Vercel platform.
• Experience with the Python ecosystem. 
• Experience with headless CMS architectures, a strong understanding of relevant technologies, API integrations, and the ability to optimize for performance and scalability.

By working with us you will:

• Being part of a world-class team of subject matter experts from various fields (marketing, operations, product, etc.) trying to change the world.
• Work across cultural and geographical lines alongside our offices in different parts of the world.
• A monthly stipend for professional development supports a culture of lifelong learning.
• Have a competitive salary (1.5-2 million NTD/year) in a well-funded high-growth company. 
• The opportunity to be exceptionally creative with your high-impact ideas.

Our defining values:

• We care deeply about our learners: We let our learner's needs guide our actions and decisions and put our mission ahead of ourselves.
• We are great at what we do: We strive for excellence in all dimensions, especially in the quality of the content we create and the people we hire.
• We default to action: We are comfortable acting with limited information and taking ownership of our decisions. 
• We ask why: We ask the hard questions and are open to being in the wrong. We advocate for the best ideas, not our ideas. 
• We are honest and authentic: We are transparent as an organization, over-communicate to build trust, and share our failures just as we do our successes.
• We do this together: We help each other grow and succeed and have fun at work, even in a remote environment.

At DeepLearning.AI, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. DeepLearning.AI believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.