ClassDojo - Senior Full Stack Engineer

📋 Description

• • Join ClassDojo, a revolutionary educational technology company on a mission to give every child on Earth an education they love. We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the systems that will power our rapid growth and expand our impact beyond communication into delivering exceptional learning experiences.
• • As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will be instrumental in developing and enhancing our core platform, working with production code from day one in a collaborative, pair programming environment. Your contributions will directly impact millions of students, teachers, and parents globally, shaping the future of education.
• • You will be responsible for writing, debugging, and optimizing code across our web applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. This includes developing new features and improving existing ones, ensuring robust automated testing and comprehensive monitoring are in place to maintain high quality and reliability.
• • A key aspect of this role involves delivering code to production frequently and incrementally, enabling rapid iteration and continuous improvement of our user-facing features. You will actively participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment and maintenance.
• • Collaboration is at the heart of our engineering culture. You will engage in pair programming, mob programming, thorough code reviews, and insightful design sessions with your team to foster knowledge sharing and collective problem-solving.
• • Beyond your immediate team's projects, you will contribute to broader technical improvements and investments across the organization. This includes identifying and implementing enhancements to our common systems, tooling, and development practices, thereby elevating the overall engineering standard.
• • You will play a crucial role in supporting and refining our build and delivery pipelines, ensuring efficient and reliable deployment processes. Your expertise will also be sought after in technical design and architecture conversations, where you will share your perspective and contribute to strategic technical decisions.
• • This role extends to actively contributing to the continuous improvement of our engineering practices, processes, and teamwork. You will be a proactive force in unblocking teammates and other teams through hands-on assistance and expert guidance.
• • You will help break down complex work into manageable, incremental deliveries, ensuring consistent value delivery to our users. Furthermore, you will mentor and help grow other engineers, fostering their development into more senior roles and contributing to a culture of learning and advancement.
• • A significant part of your responsibility will be to systematically improve the quality of our product and development processes. This involves identifying areas for enhancement, proposing solutions, and driving their implementation.
• • You will champion collaboration and cultivate an environment of psychological safety, where all team members feel empowered to contribute their best ideas and perspectives.
• • Understanding and disseminating the larger business context of team and individual work is essential. You will help ensure that engineering efforts are aligned with ClassDojo's overarching mission and business objectives.
• • ClassDojo is not just a company; it's a movement. We are building a world-class engineering team where talented, entrepreneurial, and innovative individuals thrive. Our team comprises individuals with diverse backgrounds from leading tech companies like Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Stripe, and Uber, as well as Y Combinator alumni. We are committed to creating an environment where you can do the best work of your life and pioneer the future of education.
• • This is an opportunity to leverage your extensive experience to make a tangible difference in the lives of millions of children worldwide. If you are passionate about education, driven by impact, and eager to contribute to a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative environment, we encourage you to apply.
• • You will be working with a highly engaged user base and a product that has already achieved significant scale, being used in over 95% of US schools and reaching over 45 million children in 180 countries. This presents unique challenges and opportunities for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to innovate and optimize at scale.
• • Our engineering culture emphasizes rapid iteration, collaboration, and adherence to best practices. We are serious about building a world-class engineering team, with code that is heavily tested and deployed daily. Your role will be crucial in upholding and advancing this culture.