Full Stack Software Engineer
As a Full Stack Engineer at Ellevation, you play a key role in building dynamic web applications and services, help implement complex data and API integrations, and drive the conception-to-design-to-implementation product development process.
You help define our software architecture principles and standards through direct coding activities. Your ideas translate our product and business strategy into technical solutions. You research and evaluate new technologies and figure out how, when, and where they will apply to our engineering roadmap.
We value principles such as continuous integration, loose coupling, and SOA. As an integral member of our engineering group, you create, contribute to, and own pieces of our software development platform and ecosystem. Just as important, we want engineers who want to be in a startup, have tremendous communication skills, and are motivated and self-starters.
- Are you hungry to be multi-functional, hands-on in multiple areas, and an inspiring technical leader for the organization?
- Do you relish the opportunity to frequently validate, release and improve the code that you develop?
- Can you take on vital initiatives and duties for the company, spark and lead discussion, and help establish the company’s technical direction while providing timely and quality support and education across the organization?
This is a tremendous opportunity to help build the engineering foundation of the company.
About You:
- You have at 3-5 years of technical expertise, including recent engineering experience with high-performance, enterprise-facing websites and/or SaaS platforms.
- You have demonstrated success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment.
- You value clean and elegant but pragmatic and effective software design.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
- You able to work hard while maintaining attention to detail, with a sense of urgency.
- You can communicate clearly both orally and verbally to audiences of varying technical knowledge.
- Your commitment to continuous improvement and the mission is second to none, as is your desire to focus your talents on helping improve outcomes for others.
Technical Skills:
- C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET programming for web applications
- Design patterns, OO concepts and applications, refactoring and Software as a Service (SaaS) development
- SQL Server or RDBMS (SQL, query tuning, and optimization)
- Proficiency with front-end JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS (1.x) or Aurelia
Bonus points for any of the following experience/expertise:
- Entity Framework
- Elasticsearch/Lucene
- JSON/REST-based web services and API design
Other Skills:
- Comfortable in front of a whiteboard and discussing both high level architecture and as well as coding/algorithms.
- Good analytical problem solver and an extraordinary teammate.
- Experience at an internet startup or early stage company a plus.
- Can identify creative and innovative solutions in a high-availability, rapidly-scaling enterprise environment.
- Contributes direct and constructive feedback in code reviews, design reviews, and analyzing customer challenges.
About Us:
At Ellevation, we develop world-class software to help school districts and educators support the fastest growing population of K-12 students: English Learners (ELs). By combining great products, student data, and research on best practices, Ellevation helps school districts transform their EL programs and ensure all students can achieve their highest aspirations.
We are a fast-growing, mission-driven technology company, partnering with nearly 600 public school districts all across the country. We are well-capitalized, have a strong and growing team, and are continuously focused on how to build the best organization so that we can achieve our ambitious social and financial objectives.
You can learn more about our team here:
https://ellevationeducation.com/culture
https://venturefizz.com/blog/ellevation-education-engineering-spotlight-boston-ma
https://www.builtinboston.com/2018/03/08/ellevation-education-diversity