Who We Are

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society.

With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity. 

NewGlobe leverages more than a decade of educational experience and proven impact in integrated school management, teacher professional development, instructional design innovation, technological system support, child-centered classroom practice, and parent engagement -- all grounded in learning science -- to ensure each teacher is empowered to engage children in transformational learning, and all children have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Every day, NewGlobe supports governments to solve what were once seen as intractable problems, and by doing so, ensures this generation will be able to grow up to lead more fulfilled lives, while simultaneously building economic prosperity for themselves, their communities, and the globe. 

NewGlobe’s high-touch, intensive professional development programs, along with integrated school management, teacher support, and assessment software, enable schools to succeed. NewGlobe works within state and national curriculum and syllabi, ensuring all children are empowered to learn their own history, and master local content, while being globally competitive in mathematics and languages. The science of behaviour change and the science of learning is at the foundation of all programming. 

NewGlobe works with urgency because youth quickly becomes adulthood and relentlessly because improvement requires continuous problem-solving. NewGlobe is honoured to serve and to help rebuild trust in public systems. 

NewGlobe’s work is all encompassing and will challenge you to use your full mind, and heart, each day. We need bright minds who want to be part of building a new globe -- a more equitable globe -- to join us. 

Technology Group

Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments. This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day. Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations. 

Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world. No kidding.

Software Development Department

The software development department handles all aspects of delivery related to our custom software applications and services - everything that it takes to turn an idea into working software and delivering value to our users. The department is structured into cross-functional, self-organising teams that work together on projects, short and long, alongside product designers and key business stakeholders.

About the Role

We are looking for a full time Front-End Developer to join remotely our cross-functional software development team in Amsterdam, which will participate in building the software that powers and improves efficiency to enhance our competitive advantage.

This role is all about bringing front-end web development muscle to our cross-functional delivery teams. Your team will have front-end developers, full-stack developers, and technically minded QAs to deliver new functionality to existing apps and to build our next generation of web applications, as part of our ever expanding portfolio. And by “next generation of web applications”, we mean rigorously architected single-page web applications and progressive web-applications that consume microservices and treat testing and continuous delivery as first-class citizens. 

What You Will Do

• Gather requirements, build, test, and ship web apps, both new and existing
• Collaborate with server-side developers to design the APIs for specifically for the web application (not just consuming APIs that were already developed)
• Engage on all dimensions of the app, from UI and UX, to business logic, to storage and networking
• Ensure the overall quality of the product being delivered meets our standards for scalability and maintainability. You will be comfortable not only in your primary functional area, but also able to feedback and support across all aspects of delivery 
• Focus on continuous improvement, pushing themselves and the team to adopt new approaches and technologies, ensuring that we stay on top of emerging standards
• Communicate project status to key stakeholders. 
• Work with product designers to flesh out design concepts and build interactive prototypes
• Work as part of a cross-functional delivery team to deliver world-class user experiences in challenging network environments - think lots of need for offline-first
• Write lots and lots of JavaScript. Or TypeScript. But probably not CoffeeScript or Dart. Sorry
• Contribute to and lead decisions about the right frameworks and libraries to use
• Craft all the appropriate CSS (well, SASS or LESS, of course), knowing that creating maintainable stylesheets means more than good class names (but that, too)
• Add a bit of sizzle and spice to the user experience… We love making sure it all renders pixels perfect!
• Implement appropriate web app build tooling, meaning live servers for development, minification and obfuscation for production… you get the idea
• Don’t forget about writing tests. You will definitely be writing automated tests

What You Should Have

• 3+ years of experience developing enterprise-scale Single-Page Applications (SPAs) and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, etc.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Significant professional experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework (AngularJS, Ember, React, Vue.js, etc.) — ideally two or three — and well-informed opinions about the strengths and weaknesses of each.
• User-centric thinking to prioritize performance, accessibility, and usability, ensuring the highest quality end product.
• A belief that Agile methodologies and UI development can coexist effectively.
• A strong belief in the importance of automated unit, integration, and functional tests for both web apps and APIs.
• Proficient with Version Control Systems such as Git (branching, pull requests, merges) and platforms like Azure DevOps Repos, GitHub, or GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with formal pair programming and other XP (Extreme Programming) practices is a major plus.
• Experience running projects using a formal delivery methodology (beyond just “we do Agile”); familiarity with more than one and the ability to articulate their relative strengths and weaknesses is a major plus.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and the confidence to challenge server-side developers to build them to meet front-end needs.
• A proactive and confident communicator, comfortable representing projects in front of stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
• Strong ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• A proactive mindset and comfort working independently without constant supervision.
• Flexibility to adapt and respond to the evolving needs of the business.

Nice to have: 

• Figma or other design tools
• Testing in production (feature flags/toggles , A/B testing .. etc.)
• CI/CD basics
• Web performance optimization (lighthouse, Core Web vitals

Working at NewGlobe

Enter the dynamic world of NewGlobe, where we embrace the mindset of boundless potential. 

Here, we excel in innovative problem-solving and harness the power of data to revolutionize education. Committed to scaling our impact, we prioritize inclusivity and design solutions that empower learners worldwide. With relentless determination, we challenge conventions, analyze root causes, and craft inventive solutions to educational challenges.

Our culture values tangible results, focusing on data-driven decisions and proactive problem-solving. Integrity and accountability are our guiding principles as we uphold commitments, establish policies, and validate our efforts at every turn.

Through meticulous design, we shape behaviors, championing structured practices, precision, and transparency in our quest for educational excellence. As we journey forward, we embrace challenges and celebrate achievement in our mission to transform education.

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