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Full-Stack Engineer

Altitude Learning

Engineering at Altitude Learning

As an engineer at Altitude Learning, you will be building and maintaining web and mobile applications that are used by learners and educators on a daily basis. We work closely with our partner school communities to deeply understand their practices, aspirations and pain-points, then collaborate with designers, product managers, and pedagogy experts to build solutions. Whether you are a recent graduate looking to start your career or a seasoned engineer who has multiple years of relevant experience, we can provide the right environment and challenges that match your skills, while helping you continue to grow.

Skills & Requirements

    • At least 2 years as a professional software engineer. If you have more, that’s great too
    • Experience with the *nix or Mac OS X command line.
    • Experience with a modern source code control system. We use Git
    • Experience writing backend code in a modern programming language. We mainly use Python
    • Experience writing MVC single page apps. We use Ember
    • Experience testing single page apps, such as with QUnit, Mocha, or Selenium.
    • Experience with relational databases, including the ability to explain how ACID properties impact your design

Responsibilities

    • Full life-cycle development of web and mobile applications.
    • Writing web apps with 12-Factor HTTP RESTful backends.
    • Planning and writing unit, functional, and integration tests.
    • Implementing basic monitoring and health checks.
    • Performing code review for peers.
    • Triaging bugs
    • Doing light relational database administration, such as performing migrations, creating indices in response to slow queries, and normalizing schemas.
    • Load-testing, profiling, and debugging your code.
    • Architecting scalable and reliable systems, including planning for failure through redundancy.
    • Analysis of algorithm runtime and space, Big-O notation.

Collaboration

    • Our environment is highly collaborative. You will work with a truly cross-disciplinary team in our main office and even with partner schools.
    • You should be an above-average communicator; you’ll spend a lot of time interacting with product managers, designers, teachers, and students.
    • Some degree of flexibility around occasional events that must happen on a Pacific or Eastern time-friendly schedule(s) is required.

Bonus Points

    • A passion for making education awesome
    • You love the scrappiness and fast pace of startups
    • You enjoying working in small, cross-functional teams
    • You’re contributing to your favorite Open Source projects
    • Experience doing *nix administration
    • Experience doing relational database administration

What We Offer

    • Competitive compensation
    • Flexible work-from-home policy (and a designated “Work from home day” every Wednesday)
    • Catered lunches 3 days a week and an array of snacks and drinks
    • A fun workplace that is serious about work/life balance
    • Greatly subsidized medical/dental/vision coverage for employees and their families
    • Generous paid time-off and parental leave policies
    • FSA/HSA/401k
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Altitude Learning

PD and Platform To Accelerate Your Shift to Learner-Centered Education.
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Technology we use

Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
AWS
Docker
Git

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