Date: April 6, 2022 12:51:13 PM UTC
Description:
What You’ll Do
- Make life better for passionate teachers by:
- meeting the ultimate reliability and uptime challenge for digital tools – is this better than paper?
- building well structured and documented RESTful APIs so that our apps can share data with ease
- shipping code from your laptop to classrooms frequently and confidently
- Help school administrators build great schools by:
- building data pipelines that respect privacy and ensure security while offering useful insights
- implementing code that runs great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints
- analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like Datadog, Alert Logic, and AWS CloudWatch
- Learn every day by:
- collaborating, pull request-ing, and mentoring on a cross-functional team
- participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
Example Projects You Might Work On
- Architecting algorithms to select the right activity for the right student at the right moment.
- Creating teacher and student friendly front-end components, assessments and reporting pages.
- Crunching data from student activities to show teachers just the right advice
- Simulating hundreds of thousands of kids to implement scaling, stability, and security improvements
- Improving our deployment and testing automation pipelines
You Must Have
- MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong CS and software engineering fundamentals
- 3+ years experience with server-side development preferably in Python
- Experience with database technologies (modeling, ORMs, tuning)
- Experience deploying production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong communication skills in writing, conversation
Extra Credit For
- Experience with tools we use every day:
- Front-end frameworks: React, Redux, the next thing that will replace them all
- Back-end frameworks: Node.js, AWS Lambdas, AWS AppSync (GraphQL)
- Tools and systems: Linux, Docker, AWS, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins
- Data stores: DynamoDB, Oracle, Postgres, AWS S3
- Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow
- Experience in education or ed-tech
Company:Methodical Search
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States, US
Job Type: FULL_TIME
Experience Requirements: 4 Year
