We live in a changing world - yet education looks exactly like it did 100 years ago. AltSchool is on a mission to change that. Our goal is to enable all children to reach their full potential through a personalized education that equips them for the world of tomorrow.
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at AltSchool, you will build digital tools to transform education. You will be the second member of our New York engineering team and report directly to the Head of Engineering in our New York office. You will collaborate with team members in our New York and San Francisco sites and be a key member of our stellar start-up organization.
Responsibilities
Product ideation. Express your thoughts in a salient way, including:
- Writing design documents, basic wireframes and diagrams.
- Story-boarding and/or writing case studies.
- Testing hypotheses and invalidating assumptions by participating in user studies.
- Creating working proof-of-concept prototypes.
Full life-cycle development of web-based systems:
- Creating milestones, time-boxing them, communicating progress to key stakeholders.
- Architecting scalable and reliable systems, including planning for failure through redundancy.
- Analysis of algorithm runtime and space, Big-O notation.
- Planning and writing unit, functional, and integration tests.
- Deploying your systems both in staging and production.
- Implementing basic monitoring and health checks.
- Doing light relational database administration, such as performing migrations, creating indices in response to slow queries, and contributing normalized schemas.
- Load-testing, profiling, and debugging your code.
- Performing code review for peers.
- Triaging your bug queue.
Collaborating with the rest of the Technology and Innovation team in San Francisco.
- Light travel is required, up to one week per quarter.
- Some degree of flexibility around occasional events that must happen on a Pacific time-friendly schedule will be required.