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DeansList is hiring its first-ever, dedicated client-facing engineer.

Who is DeansList?

• We’re a bootstrapped ed-tech company that creates software that helps schools run better.
• Our SaaS platform is used by hundreds of innovative schools across the country.
• We’re proud to serve many traditionally underserved communities.
• Every school’s needs are different, and our software is highly customizable.
• We’re continually solving hard (aka interesting) problems.
• We have the footprint and culture of a startup with the stability and resilience of a large company.
• We’re used to working remotely; we’ve been doing it for almost five years.
• We love delighting our customers with software and service that go beyond expectations.
• We believe in work-life balance--an exhausted dev is not a creative dev.

This role will take direct ownership of three of our most important functional areas:

• Integrations: DeansList is just one piece of a modern school’s tech ecosystem and we believe in supporting interoperability is critical to our mission. We have a robust integration layer and you’ll be responsible for managing that codebase, our library of existing connections, and developing connections to new systems.
• Client-Specific Code: To streamline schools day-to-day-ops we sometimes deploy custom scripts to our enterprise clients. At first you’ll be responsible for owning our existing script library and developing new scripts for clients as needed. As many of these scripts are widely used and solve needs for many clients, you’ll also have the opportunity to develop these into first-class features.
• Support Engineering: You’ll work directly with our rockstar School Success Team to troubleshoot technical issues and to architect creative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Supporting client-facing teammates and end-users in all of the above areas.
• Building processes to improve the way these requests are triaged, prioritized, addressed and closed out.
• Designing and building features to scale the above two tasks.

People who will succeed in this role:

• Love working with end-users and non-technical members of a team, learning about their workflows, and implementing solutions that make their jobs easier.
• Are comfortable working with complex relational data models.
• Are great at writing scripts and finding innovative ways to hack a solution together, but also enjoy medium and large-scale feature development.
• Enjoy working with APIs and get excited making two systems talk to each other.
• Are motivated by the challenge of finding a solution to every user’s problem, but also comfortable pushing back when appropriate.
• Excellent multi-taskers who don’t mind switching between small and large-scale projects.
• Are not scared by the challenge of working on a large pre-existing codebase and your first urge isn’t always to scrap everything and rebuild.
• Bonus: have worked with other ed-tech systems and have familiarity with common education data models

Requirements

And finally, here’s the profile of who we think would thrive in this role. This isn’t an exact science - if you don’t meet everyone of these qualifications but feel you’d succeed in this role we encourage you to apply.

• 4+ years of professional development experience with our core stack:
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
• Familiarity with some of the other technologies we use:
  • GraphQL
  • React / React Native
  • Redis
• 2+ years experience supporting end-users
• Experience in or a connection to education/ed-tech

Benefits

• Health (fully covered), dental and vision insurance
• Flexible vacation policy
• 401k w/ matching contributions
• Paid family leave
• Short/long-term disability coverage
• Ongoing training and development

Job Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental & vision insurance
• 401K
• Frequent team events
• Workstation (your choice)
• "Thank You"s from awesome teachers
• Flexible Vacation

Time zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time +/- 4 hours

DeansList is hiring its first-ever, dedicated mobile developer. Interested? Read on!

Who is DeansList?

• We’re a bootstrapped ed-tech company that creates software that helps schools run better.
• Our SaaS platform is used in hundreds of innovative K-12 schools across the country.
• We’re proud to partner with many traditionally underserved communities.
• We tailor our software to the unique needs of each school.
• We’re continually solving hard (aka interesting) problems.
• We have the footprint and culture of a startup with the stability and resilience of a large company.
• We’re used to working remotely; we’ve been doing it for almost five years.
• We love delighting our customers with software and service that go beyond expectations.
• We believe in work-life balance--an exhausted dev is not a creative dev.

Still reading? Here’s what to expect if you were to jump into this role:

• You will become the proud new owner of our two mobile apps: DeansList for Educators and DeansList for Families.
• Oh great, legacy code, right? Nope! We’re giving you the opportunity to rebuild them both from the ground up.
• What’s the catch? No catch! React and React Native have evolved a lot of the last four years, and we want to push the reset button so that we can build with the latest and greatest.
• We also want to leverage different screen sizes and orientations, which is something we don’t do well right now. Both the current apps are fixed in portrait mode.
• Once the mobile apps are rebuilt, we want to start adding lots of awesome new features to make the DeansList experience even better.

This job is for you if:

• You want to be part of helping deliver a top-notch education to hundreds of thousands of students.
• You’re an ambitious, hard-working person who enjoys tackling big problems.
• You’re as passionate about design as you are about writing code.
• You're motivated by the challenge of creating user experiences that are elegant, intuitive, and extremely well-coded.
• You thrive on constructive feedback from users and co-workers.
• You feel comfortable designing for large and small screens alike.
• You can work independently but know when to reach out for help.
• You love learning and want to be on the cutting edge.
• You think JavaScript is the bees knees and React/React Native is the best thing since sliced bread.

Requirements

Here’s the profile of who we think would thrive in this role. This isn’t an exact science, so if you don’t quite fit this feel free to try to convince us--we’re open to hearing your pitch.

• 4+ years of professional development experience with:
  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS
  • UX/UI design
  • REST and/or GraphQL API access (even those w/limited documentation)
  • Asynchronous code
• 2+ years of professional development experience with:
  • React and React Native
  • React state management (Redux/MobX)
  • Deploying and supporting iOS and Android apps
• You’ve created at least one incredible app--or played a major role in its development--and can show it off to us
• You have experience in education or ed-tech
• Bonus: you have an innate ability to read between the lines when it comes to specs/user requests
• Bonus: experience reading back-end code (mostly PHP)
• Bonus: experience with relational and key-value store databases

Benefits

• Flexible time off with no cap
• 10+ paid holidays
• Medical/vision/dental
• Stock options plan
• Fully vested 401k with up to 4% match,
• Minimum 4 weeks paid parental leave
• Work from home with a DeansList-provided MacBook Pro
• Flexible hours
• Paid trips to HQ in NYC

Job Benefits:

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental & vision insurance
• 401K
• Frequent team events
• Workstation (your choice)
• "Thank You"s from awesome teachers
• Flexible Vacation

Time zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time +/- 4 hours