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Brilliant
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Brilliant - https://brilliant.org/ - Hiring senior full stack engineers in SF (remote OK, H1B OK)
- Fact: The US government spends .026% of its education budget on gifted programs.
- Fact: Most of the world's high aptitude students don’t have access to the resources and opportunities necessary to reach their full potential.
- Our mission: To democratize the way smart, driven high school and college students are identified and developed by making an intellectually challenging environment available online.
- What we do: Brilliant is an online problem solving community for high aptitude students in math, science, and computer science.
- Our vision for the future: To change the rules by which humans are valued and afforded access to opportunities by providing a platform of recognition that is meritocratic and transcends national and socioeconomic borders. Learn more about our vision by watching our TEDx talk (10 minutes) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQCYZ8Oz8Q&feature=em-share_...
- Our growth: We have been online for about 8 months and have over 100,000 registered users from 135 countries, with the userbase doubling every 8 weeks.