Sr. Fullstack Engineer

A Y Combinator/Imagine K12 company ClassDojo's long-term goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love. The ClassDojo app is the #1 communication app for micro-communities of K-8 teachers children and families globally; they use it to stay connected sharing what's happening through the school day through photos videos messages and activities. The company is now helping kids get learning experiences they love beyond school. Today ClassDojo is used by 95% of pre K-8 schools in the US as well as in a further 180 countries.

As a Sr. Full-stack engineer at ClassDojo you'll help build the systems that will support our rapid 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 at least 4 years of professional software engineering experience
• You are in the Americas time zone

You might be a good fit if:

• You're excited to get things done in a fast-paced environment
• You have an ownership mindset: you are comfortable with both responsibility and accountability
• 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

Bonus:

• You’ve used Node at scale
• You've worked with MongoDB or MySQL
• You have DevOps experience especially on AWS
• 7+ years of professional software experience

About ClassDojo

ClassDojo's mission is to bring communities together and help them create an education experience their children love. Founded in 2011 (ImagineK12 / Y Combinator) and based in San Francisco California ClassDojo started as a communication app: a simple way for teachers families and children to share the magic of the school day through photos videos and messages. It creates a close-knit classroom community and exciting inspiring and creative classrooms and homes for kids. We’re one of the fastest growing education companies of all time used and loved by tens of millions of teachers families and children in 90% of K-8 schools in the US and 180 other countries.

You can read more about our vision to change education from the ground up here: https://medium.com/@samchaudhary/https-medium-com-samchaudhary-how-to-change-education-from-the-ground-up-f82b8f3e4b95 .

The Team

We believe focused talented non-hierarchical teams can achieve a surprising amount: https://blog.ycombinator.com/its-surprising-how-much-small-teams-can-get-done-sam-chaudhary-of-classdojo/ . Our team is made up of talented motivated intense and interesting people from around the world with deep backgrounds in education as well as from leading consumer internet organizations like Instagram Netflix Dropbox Uber Y Combinator and more. We’re building a company that is pioneering the future of education and one that is the kind of place we’ve all always wanted to work. We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here.

Diversity

ClassDojo’s vision is to give every child on Earth an education they love. We strongly feel the best way to do this is to work with people from diverse backgrounds that truly reflect the world. 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 hire both locally in San Francisco and distributed teammates around the world.

If you're interested in pioneering the future of education at massive scale we'd love to hear from you.