Senior Software Engineer (Tech Lead) - Ellevation Education｜Meet.jobs

Over the last 10 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 are currently making a series of major investments in our flagship product. As part of that, we're setting up a new team focused on enabling EL admins to effectively manage all the various people who work together to help students: principals, specialists, teachers and, in particular, parents -- a group this new team would allow us to bring onto the platform.

We believe adding parents to our platform will both powerfully serve our mission (by helping school districts and parents better work together), while also allowing us to grow our business (by meeting a clear market desire for such capabilities).

As the Tech Lead for this new team, you’ll play a key role in opening up this growth opportunity. You'll partner closely with a product peer to: identify key problems to solve; come up with creative technical solutions to solve those problems; and then quickly and iteratively ship and learn. As you do so, you'll help guide the work of a small number of other engineers.

You are extremely comfortable weighing tradeoffs, generating options, and assessing risks.

You’re comfortable working across the stack. Much of the backend for Ellevation’s core product is written in C#, though we’ve started mixing in some Python as well. We’re very happy to hire folks who don’t know C# if they bring plenty of real-world engineering experience (ideally, including some real time working in a strongly-typed language). For our front-end code, we’re in the process of moving to React.

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 at least 1 year of experience leading a small team of engineers.
• You have deep experience in at least one modern language and its broader ecosystem, e.g., C#, Java, Python.
• You either know the C# ecosystem or are excited to learn to work within it
• You have experience with technologies & tools for developing in a cloud 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.