SDE III - Backend

Who we are:

Elevate K-12 is a Series C funded, rapid growth stage start-up focused on solving the crisis-level teacher shortage in US K-12 schools changing the way classrooms work live, virtual instruction that gives students access to high quality, certified teachers who help them prepare for the world of the future! For our teacher community, we open new work opportunities proprietary platform and curriculum, enabling them to deliver live remote instruction across multiple subjects in elementary, middle, and high schools across the US. Our goal is to enable high quality live teaching for every learner in the U.S., from kindergarten through their first jobs, so they can receive the education they need to identify and pursue their unique passions in life. We are the new way to the classroom!

We live the mission of Elevate K-12, and we’re getting better each day, if all of this sounds exciting to you – We want to hear from you!

The Team:

On the heels of a Series C funding led by General Catalyst, Elevate K-12 is enjoying strong business momentum, growing revenues at a 100% y-y, with plans to double again next year. To continue this momentum, we are investing in building out a strong product and technology function to power the next generation of solutions for students, teachers, and school/districts. The Elevate Software Engineering team, delivering cutting edge educational software at enterprise class scale and with consumer-grade experiences to deliver on our company mission.

Your Mission:

In pursuit of this goal, we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our technical team as we move from being a tech-enabled service to a tech product company. We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic people who love solving complex business problems and providing excellent technical solutions. If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven, education technology company and creating the future of EdTech, then this role is for you!

Problems you’ll get to solve include:

• Engineer virtual delivery solutions that enable Elevate live instructors to deliver the most personalized, interactive, and engaging instruction to K-12 students across schools in the United States today, and globally tomorrow, enabling them to learn effectively and prepare for the future.
• Build unique solutions to allow teachers to teach from anywhere, on their own terms, and to rediscover their love for teaching.
• Develop solutions that enable schools and districts to bring interactive live platforms in a seamless manner into their educational systems, giving them the ability to not only solve the teacher shortage crisis, but also offer unique learning opportunities for their students.
• Construct analytics and AI solutions to tailor content, curriculum, and teaching approaches based on large-scale education delivery models.

The Job:

• Lead User Stories and guide senior/software engineers in the development process
• Understand architecture principles, design patterns and implement them from architecture artifacts.
• Provide effort estimation of assigned work and be able to complete as per the estimations and timelines.
• Work and align with Technology Lead for everyday work to achieve set goals.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, design solutions, and implement new features.
• Develop and implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications.
• Ability to resolve performance issues.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Mentor software engineers and help them grow their technical skills.

Must have:

• B.E/B.Tech/master’s in computer science (or equivalent).
• 8-11 years of experience
• Strong understanding of HLD, design patterns object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, data structures, algorithms and
• Highly skilled with one of the OOP programming language like C#, Java, Go-Lang.
• Highly skilled with one of the backend like MSSQL, MySql, Postgres, Oracle.
• Highly skilled at using Cloud: Azure/AWS.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
• Good understanding of Agile software development methodologies
• Must understand full stack development frameworks including knowledge of building scalable APIs, interfaces, software components, schema design, availability, and latency preferably in a cloud environment.
• Worked in a fast-paced environment preferably in a tech driven startup or top tech organization at least 1/2 years.
• Understanding of different types of architectures.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of Frontend Technologies: Angular 2 or above.
• Understanding of MS Technologies: NET CORE 5+, C#.
• Understanding of Backend Technologies: MongoDB/AWS Dynamo/AppSync/GraphQL.
• GitHub Repository or Stack overflow link.
• At least 2 years of experience in building an entire product end-to-end and ability to technically lead a team of 6-10 engineers.
• Track record of building successful products involving complexity/ambiguity with proven/visible impact metrics.
• Knowledge of Jitsi or any media server is desirable.

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.