Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Westwood, MA

Reporting To: VP of Technology

Compensation: $128,000 - $176,000 / year

Description

Integrating technology with teaching for an empowered tomorrow.

The BetterLesson Engineering team is composed of highly skilled software engineers that work to realize the company's mission of providing a best-in-class professional learning experience for educators.

We build micro-services and applications that integrate into a cohesive professional learning platform. Our learning platform includes the facilitation of professional coaching, workshops, learning walks, asynchronous learning experiences, and a library of classroom strategies and resources. Additionally, we create data solutions including the BetterLesson Data Lakehouse and data integrations between BetterLesson systems.

A north star of the BetterLesson Engineering team is to foster a culture of growth through mentorship, personal development, and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Our team holds Bi-Weekly 'The Whiteboard' meetings where we present new technologies, processes, or knowledge-share patterns established in our systems. Each quarter we have a professional development day called 'Level Up', in which each engineer has the day to work on anything of their choosing, whether that be playing with a new framework, contributing to an open source project, or working towards certification.

The BetterLesson Engineering team's goal is to help everyone expand their full-stack engineering knowledge. As a BetterLesson Engineer, we will leverage your top skills immediately, while also presenting opportunities to grow new skills and deepen your expertise. You will also help the team continue to adopt new technologies and software development processes as we quickly reach a mature CI/CD development environment.

You will focus on these main functional areas:

Designing, building, and maintaining full-stack web applications and data pipelines within our product portfolio
Support effective software delivery as a champion of Agile methodologies
Ensure the delivery of high-quality products through the creation, refinement, and administration of standards, patterns, and processes
Foster a culture of growth by sharing knowledge and best practices with your peers

We commonly work with these technologies:

We don't believe in language/framework experience requirements. Instead, we identify technical skills that will enable you to contribute right away while also evaluating your ability to learn new technologies. Some of the technologies we currently leverage includes:

React JS, TypeScript
Python, Flask
Java, Spring
CSS, HTML5
MySQL, PostgresSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
Glue, Athena, PySpark
Kubernetes, Docker
Cloud based IaaS and PaaS
Infrastructure as Code
Cloud-based data lake platform services

You have these experiences/skills:

Many professionals that would make excellent additions to our team may not have all experiences/skills below. Please consider applying even if you don't meet every bullet

Formal Computer Science training, through either:
- a college degree in Computer Science or an equivalent degree, or
- a combination of coding bootcamp experience and 2+ years of training on the job, or
- 3+ years of training on the job
Experience leading the technical delivery of projects
Advanced experience building software systems composed of multiple technologies, services, and components
Experience collaborating with product leadership and/or customers to create technical solution designs and implementation roadmaps
Expert knowledge in one or more frameworks or programming languages
Experience building multiple small-to-medium (6-12 weeks) or at least one large-scale (13-26 weeks) customer-facing web application(s) using a variety of user interface technologies
You have led solution design reviews for full-stack systems
Service as a mentor, team/tech leader, or manager to other engineers

We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work with an awesome team to solve important problems.
A competitive salary.
Health and other employee benefits.
Equity in the business you are helping to build.
A flexible schedule and vacation policy.
The opportunity to spend everyday working to improve outcomes for teachers and students.

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