Senior Full Stack JavaScript Engineer

Learning Ally is a leading nonprofit education solutions organization that transforms the lives of struggling learners by delivering proven literacy solutions that help students reach their potential. Our mission is to radically change education, transforming the lives of children by providing reading interventions and solutions to help them succeed academically, build self-confidence, and thrive in school and beyond. In the US, 65% of fourth graders read below proficiency and are 400% more likely to drop-out of high school. For most “at risk” students (students of color, low income, English Language Learners and students with learning disabilities) the problem is even more acute.

Learning Ally seeks to break this cycle. With early student assessment, intervention and accommodation and professional development for educators, Learning Ally can identify and prevent learning issues by working with schools and educators to support new and struggling readers. Our solutions build a strong foundation for independent, engaged learners who are empowered to achieve socially, emotionally, and academically, regardless of background or learning difference.

Founded in 1948 as Recording for the Blind, to help soldiers who lost their sight in combat continue their education with audiobook products, Learning Ally has evolved to help individuals understand the unique ways they learn and match them to the solutions that enable personal achievement. Today, Learning Ally reaches over 1,500,000 students, 200,000 educators and 18,550 schools across the country and continues to expand its reach. With a continued commitment to supporting students who learn differently, Learning Ally has joined researchers and neuroscientists from renowned institutions including UCSF and MIT, to better understand and address learning issues. You will find that our culture is one that is very committed to our mission, innovation, professional growth, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Role Description

As a Senior Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer, you will be responsible for both driving the strategy and execution of Learning Ally’s goal to develop and implement digital products that will allow us to deliver a portfolio of learning solutions to students, supported by teachers and parents.

This individual will work with a team of talented developers and internal stakeholders to ensure that we are balancing both short-term and long-term goals. You will work closely with current product and platform teams to build and integrate functionality into a platform solution allowing for multiple cross-functional teams to concurrently produce value.

Projects you could work on

• Whole Child Insights - ingest clickstream and transactional events in real-time from educator and student-facing applications. Crunch massive amounts of data into accurate efficacy and engagement insights for students, educators, and families.

• Human-read Audiobook - Build immersive reading experiences for students that go beyond text and audio. Implement interactive assessments and motivational features that are designed to be playful and keep students engaged while reading diverse and authentic literature.

• Rostering integrations- Work with large data sets that support the onboarding and daily data synchronization of student and school roster data to ensure all students have access to our platform. We currently work with over 20000 schools in the US and have a goal to establish relationships with 50% of all schools in the US.

• Immersive and Engaging Frontend - Educators are busier than ever and students have experienced massive disruption in their learning journeys. We are passionate about building simple and intuitive learning experiences that bring joy to students and efficiency for educators.

• Professional development for Educators - Build content stores and experiences for courseware and just-in-time learning for teachers that build their strengths as an educator while bolstering belief in every one of their students.

Responsibilities

• Set technology standards and direct the execution of initiatives to develop a learning management platform from inception through implementation.
• Work with engineering teams to solve a class of problems highly technical in nature: (Architecture, Code, Scale, and Security)
• Work with our team to establish and improve internal processes and workflows
• Lead and contribute to the growth and development of the software engineering team
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to peers
• Exhibit a hunger for continuous learning and improvement
• Work with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Foster a working environment that supports Learning Ally’s cultural values. Act as a role model and engage in discussions and feedback to ensure the intent of the culture statement is integrated into day-to-day activities, planning, and communications.

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of relevant experience; including 2+ years managing engineers

• Experience with a tech stack that is similar to ours: AWS, Node.js, React, GraphQL, REST, SQL/NoSQL databases designed in a microservice architecture
• Experience growing the skills and leadership capacity of staff engineers
• Prior experience working in Lean and Agile environments - Hypothesis testing, MVPs, Iterative development
• Proficient with Node.js and related frameworks (Express, Nest)
• Experience with React based-frameworks (Next)
• Proficiency with relational SQL, NoSQL databases, and ORMs.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, Github Actions, etc)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container systems
• Education Technology experience preferred.

Travel: none

Learning Ally is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Senior Principal Software Engineer

$150,000-$200,000 Base Salary,Position eligible for additional incentives including bonus, 401k match, health and welfare benefits.

Remote Northeast U.S., preference for candidates based in NY or D.C.

National Funding (NF) is creating a new, state-of-the-art digital lending company, smallbusinessloans.com (SBL). SBL will launch fully digital lending offering targeted to SMBs seeking an automated loan experience. The company will differentiate itself from competitors via superior technology, risk management, data science, a fully digital UI, and a customer-first experience that emphasizes ease of use, fairness and transparency in pricing, and recognition of customer loyalty.

In order to maximize speed-to-market and efficiency, SBL intends to leverage the availability state-of-the art technology service providers and platforms. At the same time, SBL will build a robust set of modules around these platforms that will serve to differentiate SBL’s offerings in the marketplace and to its customers.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Principal Software Engineer with a passion for building innovative and scalable solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing robust and scalable software solutions. You will work closely with other engineers, designers, product managers, 3rd party vendors to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality and high-performing software products. This position is reporting to the CTO, Business Loan Center.

Major Responsibilities:

● Work closely with our product and design teams to ensure that the software architecture supports our company's user experience and customer needs
● Design, develop and implement API using JavaScript
● Design and implement software solutions that meet the needs of the business using JavaScript
● Collaborate with other teams such as product, design, and 3rd party vendors to ensure the delivery of high-quality products
● Develop and maintain software documentation and diagrams
● Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and recommend new technologies and approaches to improve our software architecture

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
● Minimum of 8 years of experience in full-stack software development, with at least 3 years of experience in a software architect or similar role
● Strong experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular
● Strong experience with Node.js, Express or other JavaScript based back-end frameworks
● Strong understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices
● Familiarity with cloud computing platforms, such as AWS or GCP, and experience building and deploying software in a cloud environment
● Experience with Agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices
● Experience with API development and integration using JavaScript
● Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
● Strong communication and collaboration skills
● Experience in a startup environment is a plus
● Experience with WordPress development is a plus

National Funding is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We're looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to drive progress on our customer-facing web application.

About the project - is a smart irrigation system that helps growers save water, improve crop quality and reduce costs.

A strong candidate would have:

• 2+ years full-time Rails experience;
• 5+ years Full Stack experience;
• The initiative, result-driven and self-motivated;
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills;
• Upper-intermediate level of English.

And would have experience in the following stack:

• Rails 7;
• RSpec for tests;
• Postgres for DB;
• Tailwind for CSS;
• Stimulus and Turbo.

We offer:

• Flexible working schedule;
• Working remotely;
• English lessons & Yoga classes;
• Paid seminars, online courses, professional literature;
• Events: Developex travel club, movie nights, table games, etc.

We are looking for a passionate and talented senior full stack software engineer to help us transform agriculture through technology. As an early member of the team, you’ll play a pivotal role in the development of our platform by contributing essential features to support our rapid scaling around the world. You’ll be responsible for leading the technical development of our platform, including setting coding standards, making decisions about how to scale our application and infrastructure and working with the CEO to set project timelines and contribute on the short and long term product roadmap. We’re looking for someone who has previous experience scaling production applications, is a fast learner and is excited about working on a product that has the potential to dramatically improve rural incomes. Given how early stage we are, we’re interested in generalists over specialists.

Your main focus will span:

• Building the Product: Work hand-in-hand with our CEO and other teammates to prioritize and execute on our product roadmap
• Scaling the Product: Design and build the technical infrastructure to help CropConex scale to hundreds of clients with millions of users and transactions
• Building the Systems: Establish best practices (frameworks, testing, CI, code reviews, etc) to lay the foundation for a high-performing Engineering team
• Build the Team: Recruit, hire, train, and mentor the first members of the Engineering team

Our business is truly global, and we have team members all around the world. This position will be remote with the opportunity to travel and you’ll be working with a team that is distributed across a number of timezones. This position is open to anyone in a North/South American or Africa/Europe timezone.

Responsibilities

• Help build and ship industry-leading products
• Work with the CEO and the rest of the engineering team to develop the technical vision for CropConex
• Ship features in Node/Express on the backend and Vue/Nuxt on the frontend to accelerate our product development timeline. Our ideal candidate will just as comfortable on either side of our stack
• Lead high-level technical decision making on application architecture and AWS infrastructure
• Translate product specs and designs into well-written, clean code
• Help build out a best-in-class testing, reliability and monitoring stack
• Improve engineering processes, documentation, tooling, standards
• Deploy services using industry-leading dev-ops tools and methodologies

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 3+ year of experience working on full-stack Javascript projects
• Experience building and shipping production-quality software at scale
• Ability to pick up new languages, frameworks and systems easily
• Experience working on or building scalable, flexible infrastructure
• Experience working with and deploying containerized applications. Experience with container services such as AWS App Runner, Google Kubernetes Engine or AWS Fargate preferred
• You have entrepreneurial drive, creativity and are resourceful
• Experience hiring software engineers and building teams a plus
• This position is open to anyone in a North/South American or Africa/Europe timezone.