Senior Growth Engineer

ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.

We started by building a powerful network for communication. ClassDojo’s flagship app is the #1 communication app connecting K-8 teachers children and families globally. Teachers use it to share what’s happening throughout the day through photos videos and messages that make parents feel like they’re there. It’s actively used in over 95% of US schools reaching over 50 million children in 180 countries with a team of just around 200 people [1]. We are now beginning to use this network to give kids the best learning experiences in the world far beyond those a standard school can provide.

We hire for talent density. Our team comprises the most talented entrepreneurial and innovative teammates from around the world with experience in education and large scale consumer internet companies including Instagram Netflix Dropbox Stripe Uber Y Combinator and more. We’re building a company where the most talented people want to work. We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here—and you’ll pioneer the future of education too.

What you’ll do:

As a growth engineer at ClassDojo you'll work across the stack to build features and launch experiments that unlock opportunities and drive growth. You’ll work on production code from day one in a pair programming environment deploy often move quickly and have your work used by millions of students teachers and parents around the world every day. In addition you’ll help us further develop our high-quality engineering culture one that values rapid iteration collaboration and best practices. Our code is heavily tested and deployed daily and we’re serious about building a world-class engineering team.

You will be a match if:

• You have 10+ years of professional software experience

• You are driven and motivated by growth engineering and experimentation as a practice

• You have generated and executed product experiments that drove significant scale in users and revenue as part of a company that scaled from 10 → 100m+ active users

• You have driven technical tooling and process around experimentation

• You have an ownership mindset: you are comfortable with both responsibility and accountability

• You're excited to get things done in a fast-paced environment

• You're thoughtful about creating and maintaining a world-class engineering culture

• You work well in teams and enjoy collaborating with engineers designers and product teams

• You enjoy working in a pair programming environment

• You are passionate about education and care about having impact on tens of millions of kids' lives with your work

• You live and work in the Americas timezones

Bonus:

• You’ve used React and/or Node at scale

• You've worked with MongoDB or MySQL

• You have DevOps experience especially on AWS

[1] Some more context:

(If you are on LinkedIn you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks)

- ClassDojo's $125m Series D (Forbes) and Sam’s note about it .

- ClassDojo is one of Y Combinator’s Top 100 companies

- ClassDojo's Second Act Comes with First Profits (TechCrunch) and Sam's note about it .

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company so we hire regardless of location as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.

ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation including geographic location experience and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):

CA WA NY NJ CT states: $171500 - $244000 (USD)

All other states in the US: $146000 - $207500 (USD)

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