EtonX

EtonX are building a game-changing blended educational course for bilingual high-school students in China.

Founded 2015
1-15 employees
  • Education
  • What we do

    EtonX are building game changing blended educational courses for bilingual high-school students in China. Backed by Eton College in the UK and Founders Factory - an EdTech accelerator that leverages a network of top entrepreneurs and corporate partners, EtonX's Modern Leadership Programme, is offered in schools, online, via a self-learning platform and through live online tutoring.

    What we build

    Our platform has a broad variety of requirements, from instant messaging to scheduling, on-line courses to cross-continental collaboration -- all of which need to be delivered seamlessly to our team and tutors in Europe, and our students and teachers in China. We are a fast-learning company with corresponding fast-changing requirements, and are simultaneously tackling some unusual technical challenges around stability and performance in delivering our SaaS platform across both UK and China locations.

    The platform is built using a micro-services architecture; we have a few open-source/SaaS point solutions for particular components in our platform, but the majority of our build has been created internally. We have great test coverage, through unit, integration and end-to-end tests; this is a theme we will continue to build on. This, and the architecture we've adopted, coupled with our automation ensures that we can continuously integrate and deploy. As we mature and scale-out the platform, we want to incorporate the best technologies and methods available. The last project we took on was to containerise the platform for development and production and we're looking to continue building in that direction.

    Where we're going

    After successfully taking the product to market twice in the last year and establishing the proof and learning points we were after, we are growing our team here in London to deliver a third iteration in 2016.

    On the tech side of this growth, we are seeking talented web developers to join our team to build and maintain our market-leading platform. We're looking for people who relish a challenge, and have the confidence and ability to help us ensure quality and that best-practice are followed at all times. A can-do attitude is a must!

    How we're hiring

    We'll start by having an informal chat to talk about the yourself and the company. If there's a match there, we'll look to meet in our new office and have a more detailed technical discussion and a chance to meet the team here. Assuming the technical side is all good, it becomes all about fit -- that you will enjoy working here with our team and vice versa. As such we want to show you about our company and what we're doing so that you can visualize working here and get a feel for working together. If at any point you're unsure, or need more time or information, please just let us know.

    Tech stack

    Docker, AWS, Aliyun, Chef, Rails, Symfony2, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Memcached, Redis, AngularJS, HTML5, CoffeeScript, Haml, Grunt Karma, Jasmine, jQuery, NodeJS, ExpressJS