Senior Software Engineer - Ellevation Education｜Meet.jobs

Over the last 9 years, Ellevation Education has built a thriving business serving the administrators, teachers, and specialists who support English Learners at public schools across the US. Today, over 1,000 school districts use our software to manage their EL programs. We are a successful, rapidly growing business with a real mission -- helping English Learners achieve all they possibly can.

We launched our first direct to student product, Ellevation Math, in 2020. That product helps middle school EL’s master the language of math. That mastery then allows them to fully participate in their classrooms.

Since that we’ve had the opportunity to learn from the administrators, specialists, teachers, and students who use our product every day.

As a Senior Software Engineer with the Ellevation Math team, you’ll play a key role in developing technical solutions to meet our product, business and impact goals. Typical efforts range from incremental improvements (e.g. adding the ability to display translations of the vocabulary students are learning), to larger-scale technical investments (e.g. fundamentally reworking the underlying model for how teachers assign content to students).

You’ll help us explore technical solutions then work to build and ship them. You’ll help us learn from the results.

You’re comfortable working across the stack. Much of the backend for Ellevation Math is written in Python, though we’ve got a bit of Node.js kicking around as well. The majority of our frontend is written using modern React. We’re happy to hire folks who bring plenty of real-world engineering experience, but who may not know our particular stack on day one.

Ellevation puts a very high priority on a culture of learning -- as a Senior Software Engineer, we expect you to both share what you’ve learned over your career, and also demonstrate an eagerness to learn from others.

We look for engineers who are excited to use their technical skills and experience in support of a mission-driven company.

About You:

• You have 5+ years of software development experience, including engineering high-performance, enterprise-facing websites and/or SaaS platforms.
• You have deep experience in at least one modern language and its broader ecosystem, e.g., Python, JavaScript.
• You have experience with technologies & tools for developing in a cloud environment
• You have demonstrated success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment.
• You have the versatility to learn new technologies and contribute across different parts of the tech stack.
• You’re naturally curious and a great team player. You have strong interpersonal skills and can work with teammates of varying levels of experience.