Software Architect - New Visions for Public Schools｜Meet.jobs

About the jobThe Portal by New Visions, an enterprise school management application,  is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to improve equitable outcomes for all students in New York City. The Portal consolidates essential student data into a modern web interface, surfacing key indicators related to student progress.  The Systems, Data Analytics, and Research team (SYSDAAR) team builds and maintains web applications that respond to educator needs and supports school leaders in effectively integrating data and technology to monitor and support the progress of nearly one million students throughout the City.  

The Role

The problems we are solving are challenging and interesting and our solutions have an immediate impact on students and staff at urban schools in NYC.   We need a software engineer with 6+ years of professional software development experience to join our team.  You will help build, test and maintain our school management platform built on Angular, Node.js, and MongoDB, supplemented by RXJS, Typescript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and other technologies.  You will provide technical leadership and work closely with our software engineering teams to ensure that we form best practices globally around pattern consistency by putting in place structures, processes, and systems that ensure success is repeatable, consistent, and scalable.  We are looking for someone excited about public service and the prospect of joining a fun and growing team in an open, collaborative, and diverse environment. 

What You’ll Do

Provide leadership around technical architecture and the establishment of robust design patterns

Write clean, testable, scalable and well-documented code

Proactively contribute ideas for new features and identify areas for improvement

Develop a broad understanding of our existing code base and identify high-value refactors to improve code quality over time

Systematically debug user and system reported problems across all environments

Proactively identify potential problems, recommend solutions, and contribute to the implementation of fixes

Participate in product requirement review and task sizing/estimation

Provide leadership in the implementation of smart practices, protocols and technologies

Provide leadership around team coding standards and code quality via code reviews, mentoring, and pairing

Keep pace with the ever-changing world of javascript and make recommendations to keep our code base up to date with evolving best practices

Mentor other software engineers on the team

What We’re Looking For

6+ years of experience in a production software engineering environment

2+ years experience in a continuous software delivery environment (agile / kanban)

A strategic and analytical thinker with a natural curiosity for investigating issues and communicating insights

Detail-oriented with a commitment to code quality and accuracy

Collaborative and team-oriented with a strong sense of collective responsibility

Dedicated to continuous learning and skill-building

Experience with:

Javascript (ES5 / ES6 )

Angular, React, etc

RESTful API development

Mongo

NodeJS

CSS / SCSS

Typescript preferred

NGRX preferred

GraphQL preferred

We believe your best work can happen from anywhere. Our team supports fully remote positions as well as offers the option to join our hybrid model and sit alongside your colleagues in our midtown office. New Visions for Public Schools is an established 30 year partner to New York City public schools, who has continuously worked alongside key leaders to improve the quality of K-12 education in New York City.

Apply Now!

To apply and read the comprehensive job description, check out our careers site:

https://grnh.se/de5bf3e01us

New Visions for Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that our people and teams should reflect the diverse communities we serve, and that our culture and internal structures should be inclusive and equitable for all prospective and current employees.