Fiveable - Social Learning for High School Students is hiring a
Remote Senior Software Engineer
## Fiveable's Mission\n\nOur mission is to make learning easy and fun. We know that educational inequities have left students overwhelmed and fending for themselves. In order to close the opportunity gap, we need to create space for students to be creative and curious. To do this, we've created a social network for online learning communities through interactive content and courses. Because of COVID, we're in a lightning strike moment for education and we're fired up to change the way things are for high school students.\n\n## The Fiveable Team\n\nWe're a creative group of former teachers, community builders, game designers, and generally curious people who are driven by social impact. We're focused on building a diverse team and are inclusive of all backgrounds. And we're big on growth mindsets - we're all learning! \n\n\n\n### Learn more about us:\n\n๐ **Check out our site** - [https://fiveable.me](https://fiveable.me)\n\nโจ [Fiveable Offers Free AP Test Prep and Tips For Optimizing Remote Learning](https://www.forbes.com/sites/meimeifox/2020/05/08/fiveable-offers-free-ap-test-prep-and-tips-for-optimizing-remote-learning/) (Forbes)\n\n๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ซ [A Former Oakland Unified Teacher Now Helps Even More Students Pass AP Tests](https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-05-06-a-former-oakland-unified-teacher-now-helps-even-more-students-pass-ap-tests) (Edsurge)\n\n๐ฅณ **Read about our [latest funding announcement](https://hi.fiveable.me/founder-notes/fiveable-backed-by-top-tier-seed-investors-to-reimagine-social-learning-for-high-school-students/)**\n\n## Who we're looking for:\n\nIn the last few months, we have nearly quadrupled our user base since schools have been closed. This has caused our development team to be on a full sprint developing new features that meet the needs of the students, teachers, and Fiveable stakeholders to improve our web application performance, UI, and UX.\n\nWe are looking for a creative, passionate front-end or full-stack developer, who is interested in having their work be impactful. If you want to clock-in and clock-out and get your work done, then wipe your hands clean, we're **not** looking for you. We want the person who pours their heart into their work. Who cares about the application they are building. Who cares about the mission behind the triumphs and failures. Who wants to participate in making Fiveable the best EdTech platform to ever exist. Who wants to be an essential part of our small, passionate team. And who has interest in growing their career alongside a venture-backed startup. The students we support need engineers this dedicated.\n\n**You are:**\n\n- **Creative** - You always find a way to get something done.\n- **Passionate** - You care deeply and pour yourself into what you do.\n- **Efficient** - You work smarter, not harder.\n- **Candid** - You communicate consistently and authentically.\n- **Flexible** - You go with the flow and find new paths to your goals.\n\n**You have:**\n\n- Extensive knowledge of React, GraphQL, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Postgres, Firebase\n- Ability to translate designs and wireframe into high quality code\n- Optimize components for maximum performance across all devices and browsers\n- Familiarity with RESTful APIs\n- Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus\n- Understanding of Git and NPM\n- Ability to quickly identify issues and debug code in high-pressure situations\n\n## Responsibilities\n\n**Be an imaginative innovator, a pioneer, an intellect, and an idea hamster.**\n\n- Develop new user-facing features using React.js\n- Analyze all of the current systems and processes\n- Build reusable components\n- Learn and apply new technologies that improve the development process or UX\n- Keep your current tasks updated in our project management tools\n- Be involved in meetings, speak your mind, share ideas for product improvements\n- Be a problem solver; be resourceful; help your teammates when you can\n\n## Nice to Have Skills\n\n- Fast-paced, agile startup development experience\n- Experience with Next.js, Hasura\n- Experience with unit and integration testing for React\n- Experience with TensorFlow\n\n## Benefits of Working at Fiveable:\n\n- Be on the front line of education innovation at an early stage startup\n- Work remotely from anywhere in the world and build your home office with a generous stipend\n- Inclusion & diversity as a company priority\n- Comprehensive benefits (Health, Dental, and Vision)\n- Unlimited paid days off and stipends for mental health support\n- Competitive compensation with stock options \n\nPlease mention the words **SAMPLE TUBE POTTERY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi40NQ==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
$80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States
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\nSoftware Engineering Course Mentor\n\nApply Here\n\n\n* Mentorship\n\n* Remote\n\n\n\n\n\n* Part time contract\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho We Are\nAt Thinkful, we believe that if schools put in even half the amount of effort that students do the outcomes would be better for everyone. People would have a path to a fulfilling future, instead of being buried under debt. Employers would benefit from a workforce trained for today. And education could finally offer students a return on their investment of both money and time. \n\nWe put in outlandish amounts of effort to create an education that offers our students a guaranteed return on their investment. we partner with employers to create a world-class curriculum built for today. We go to ends of the earth to find mentors who are the best of the best. We invest more in career services than any of our peers. We work hard to be on the ground in the cities our students are. Simply put, no other school works as hard for its students as we do. \n\n\nThe Position\nStudents enroll in Thinkful courses to gain the valuable technical and professional skills needed to take them from curious learners to employed technologists. As a Course Mentor, you will support students by acting as an advisor, counselor, and support system as they complete the course and land their first industry job. To achieve this, you will engage with students using the below range of approaches, known as Engagement Formats. Course Mentors are expected to provide support across all formats when needed. \n\n\n\n* Mentor Sessions: Meet with students 1-on-1 in online video sessions to provide technical and professional support as the student progresses through the curriculum.\n\n* Group Sessions: Host online video sessions on topics of your expertise (in alignment with curriculum offerings) for groups of student seeking live support between mentor sessions. \n\n* Grading: Reviewing student checkpoints submissions and delivering written feedback, including analysis of projects and portfolios. \n\n* Technical Coaching: Provide in-demand support to technical questions and guidance requests that come to the Technical Coaching team through text and video in a timely manner. This team also provides the TA support for immersive programs. \n\n* Assessments & Mock Interviews: Conduct 1-on-1 mock interviews and assessments via video calls and provide written feedback to students based on assessment rubrics. \n\n\n\n\nIn addition to working directly with students, Course Mentors are expected to maintain an environment of feedback with the Educator Experience team, and to stay on top of important updates via meetings, email, and Slack. Ideal candidates for this team are highly coachable, display genuine student advocacy, and are comfortable working in a complex, rapidly changing environment.\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years relevant professional work experience\n\n* Proficiency with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery)\n\n* Node.JS and React.JS at an industry level; full MERN stack proficiency a plus\n\n* Demonstrates genuine student advocacy and empathy for beginners\n\n* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills\n\n* Must be coachable and adaptable to a fast-paced work environment\n\n* Must have a reliable, high-speed Internet connection and webcam\n\n* Teaching, mentoring and/or coaching experience a plus \n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* This is a part-time role (10-25 hours a week)\n\n* Fully remote position, with a flexible schedule \n\n* Access to all of Thinkful Courses for your continued learning\n\n* Community of 500+ like-minded professionals looking to impact others and keep their skills sharp\n\n* Grow and develop as an educator with your educator experience manager\n\n\n\n\nApply\nIf you are interested in this position please provide your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in the role.\n\nWe stand against any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Thinkful provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. If you're talented and driven, please apply.\n\nThinkful can only hire candidates who are eligible to work in the United States.\nAt this time, we are unable to consider applicants from the following states: CA, WA, NJ, MA.\n\n\n\nApply Here \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Video, Education and Mern jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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๐ค Closed by robot after apply link errored w/ code 404 3 years ago
\nSoftware Engineering Course Mentor\n\nApply here\n\n\n* Mentorship\n\n* Remote\n\n\n\n\n\n* Part time contract\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho We Are\nAt Thinkful, we believe that if schools put in even half the amount of effort that students do the outcomes would be better for everyone. People would have a path to a fulfilling future, instead of being buried under debt. Employers would benefit from a workforce trained for today. And education could finally offer students a return on their investment of both money and time. \n\nWe put in outlandish amounts of effort to create an education that offers our students a guaranteed return on their investment. we partner with employers to create a world-class curriculum built for today. We go to ends of the earth to find mentors who are the best of the best. We invest more in career services than any of our peers. We work hard to be on the ground in the cities our students are. Simply put, no other school works as hard for its students as we do. \n\n\nThe Position\nStudents enroll in Thinkful courses to gain the valuable technical and professional skills needed to take them from curious learners to employed technologists. As a Course Mentor, you will support students by acting as an advisor, counselor, and support system as they complete the course and land their first industry job. To achieve this, you will engage with students using the below range of approaches, known as Engagement Formats. Course Mentors are expected to provide support across all formats when needed. \n\n\n\n* Mentor Sessions: Meet with students 1-on-1 in online video sessions to provide technical and professional support as the student progresses through the curriculum.\n\n* Group Sessions: Host online video sessions on topics of your expertise (in alignment with curriculum offerings) for groups of student seeking live support between mentor sessions. \n\n* Grading: Reviewing student checkpoints submissions and delivering written feedback, including analysis of projects and portfolios. \n\n* Technical Coaching: Provide in-demand support to technical questions and guidance requests that come to the Technical Coaching team through text and video in a timely manner. This team also provides the TA support for immersive programs. \n\n* Assessments & Mock Interviews: Conduct 1-on-1 mock interviews and assessments via video calls and provide written feedback to students based on assessment rubrics. \n\n\n\n\nIn addition to working directly with students, Course Mentors are expected to maintain an environment of feedback with the Educator Experience team, and to stay on top of important updates via meetings, email, and Slack. Ideal candidates for this team are highly coachable, display genuine student advocacy, and are comfortable working in a complex, rapidly changing environment.\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years relevant professional work experience\n\n* Proficiency with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery)\n\n* Node.JS and React.JS at an industry level; full MERN stack proficiency a plus\n\n* Demonstrates genuine student advocacy and empathy for beginners\n\n* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills\n\n* Must be coachable and adaptable to a fast-paced work environment\n\n* Must have a reliable, high-speed Internet connection and webcam\n\n* Teaching, mentoring and/or coaching experience a plus \n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n* This is a part-time role (10-25 hours a week)\n\n* Fully remote position, with a flexible schedule \n\n* Access to all of Thinkful Courses for your continued learning\n\n* Community of 500+ like-minded professionals looking to impact others and keep their skills sharp\n\n* Grow and develop as an educator with your educator experience manager\n\n\n\n\nApply\nIf you are interested in this position please provide your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in the role.\n\nWe stand against any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Thinkful provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. If you're talented and driven, please apply.\n\nThinkful can only hire candidates who are eligible to work in the United States.\nAt this time, we are unable to consider applicants from the following states: CA, WA, NJ, MA.\n\nApply here \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Teaching, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Video, Education and Mern jobs that are similar:\n\n
$60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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\nSenior Software Engineer\n\nLocation: Flexible (Eastern Time Zone/Boston preferred)\n\nPosition is available: Immediately\n\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\n\nWe are seeking a full-time Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering Team and help build products that support Achievement Network’s (ANet) mission. The ideal candidate will be passionate about cutting-edge development and best practices.Reporting to the Director of Engineering, this person will play a key role in crafting and implementing our technology vision for the organization. \n\nANet is flexible to remote working with appropriate experience and a history of successfully collaborating with and mentoring other developers remotely. Occasional travel to ANet’s National Office in Boston will be necessary, so proximity to the New England area and eastern time zone is preferable.\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n\n* Play a leadership role in designing and implementing sustainable code for substantial features and/or sections of code\n\n* Implement ANet’s next generation of technology products that support data-driven educational practices and help to close the achievement gap in the underserved communities we partner with\n\n* Create, monitor and deliver against the product road map and corresponding release cycles (as negotiated with the Product Management Team)\n\n* Provide strategic leadership in setting goals and measuring progress in RESTful server-side APIs and/or agile, componentized client-side code\n\n* Keep abreast of new technologies and propose adoption as appropriate\n\n* Mentor and support the development of junior developers as appropriate\n\n* Actively embrace and model best practices such as code reviews, unit testing, and planning/scoping/vetting larger features\n\n* Proactively look for ways to build our team through individual contributions which help us improve code quality, team culture, and team velocity\n\n\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU BRING\n\nIn order to be successful in this role, candidates must demonstrate the following:\n\n\n* You bring direct experience in the implementation of consumer-facing web applications using Angular\n\n\n\n\n\n* You have experience in, and have knowledge of:\n\n\n\n* Web development frameworks\n\n* Java and/or Go programming language\n\n* JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks such as AngularJS\n\n* Scrum or other Agile development processes\n\n* RESTful Web Services\n\n* Scalable web application development\n\n* Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Service-oriented architecture (SOA)\n\n\n\n* You are a team player who motivates and educates colleagues; you enjoy working in a highly collaborative and agile culture\n\n\n\n\n\n* You are skilled in working closely with business partners to build technology solutions that meet the usability and functional needs of both internal and external users\n\n\n\n\n\n* You operate comfortably among a highly independent staff with diverse backgrounds\n\n\n\n\n\n* You bring an innovative approach to analyze, evaluate and solve problems\n\n\n\n\n\n* You have a passionate commitment to and a sense of urgency for the support of schools, along with a belief that all students can achieve at high levels\n\n\n\n\n\n* You are motivated by working in an environment where we live out our core values daily and are eager to examine personal archetypes and biases while discussing topics related to race, class, and privilege which relate to ANet’s Advance Equity and People Matter values \n\n\n\n\nIdeal candidates may also demonstrate the following preferred qualifications:\n\n\n* 4+ years of software development experience\n\n\n\n\n\n* A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related degree\n\n\n\n\nWHO WE ARE\n\nAchievement Network (ANet) is a nonprofit dedicated to educational equity. We help schools boost student learning with great teaching that’s grounded in standards, informed by data, and built on the successful practices of educators around the country. Founded in 2005, ANet now serves over 700 schools educating over 230,000 students across the country. Our support has consistently helped our partner schools—both district and charter—achieve breakthrough results for their students.\n\nANet has received multiple awards and recognitions, most recently receiving the highest ratings (Tier 1) on our math and ELA formative assessments from the Louisiana Department of Education, the only organization to receive such high marks. We were also named to The NonProfit Time’s “Best Nonprofits to Work For” and in the 2018-19 school year will be launching the Breakthrough Results Fund, a four-year collaboration to prove what’s possible in instructional improvement.\n\nANet is a dynamic, values driven, team-oriented organization that is committed to the growth and development of all staff members. Individuals who join ANet have the opportunity to join an exceptional team of colleagues committed to helping schools drive excellent teaching and learning by investing in each other and learning together.\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\nANet offers highly competitive compensation based on prior experience and qualifications as well as comprehensive benefits in order to best support our people. Benefits we offer include: health, dental and vision insurance where ANet pays 80% of the cost of these benefits for employees and their families/domestic partner; 3 weeks of vacation (4 weeks after two years with ANet); 10 paid holidays with paid days off between the Christmas and New Year’s holidays; a paid floating holiday; paid sick & personal days; paid parental leave; retirement plan options; commuter benefits; tuition reimbursement; flexible spending accounts; short and long-term disability coverage; and basic life and personal accident insurance.\n\nHOW TO APPLY\n\nTo apply, please click on the blue “Apply” button. You will then be prompted to complete a brief application and upload a resume and thoughtful cover letter in which you outline why you are interested in working for ANet and how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position.\n\nANet is committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage individuals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds and gender identities to apply to our positions. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Education, Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Teaching, JavaScript, Math, Travel and Junior jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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