Senior Growth Engineer, ClassDojo

$146-244k

Salary dependent on location

React
MongoDB
AWS
MySQL
Senior level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area
ClassDojo

Communication app for primary schools

Open for applications

ClassDojo

Communication app for primary schools

201-500 employees

B2CB2BEducationCommunicationSaaSCommunity

Open for applications

$146-244k

Salary dependent on location

React
MongoDB
AWS
MySQL
Senior level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2CB2BEducationCommunicationSaaSCommunity

Company mission

To give every kid on Earth an education they love by enabling teachers to build students' confidence, encouraging them to become lifelong learners.

Role

Who you are

  • You have 5+ 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

Desirable

  • You’ve used React and/or Node at scale
  • You've worked with MongoDB or MySQL
  • You have DevOps experience, especially on AWS

What the job involves

  • 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

Our take

ClassDojo started as a classroom management tool, which teachers can use to reward and influence good conduct at school. Beyond this, it has grown into a communication platform for teachers, students and their families, used by 95% of schools in the US, with a total of over 51 million users worldwide.

ClassDojo has had an interesting journey since its 2011 launch, growing steadily but struggling to turn a profit for almost a decade. However, the launch of its monetized communication app and tripled revenue as online learning became the norm during the pandemic propelled ClassDojo to success.

This success has led to significant venture capital investment, which is intended to evolve the company once more, from a communication app into an extracurricular learning platform and creative space for current ClassDojo users. The size and loyalty of ClassDojo’s user base, as well as the company’s sure-footed survival and growth over the last decade led to the company acquiring Y Combinator graduates Prendea in 2022, expanding its operations into Latin America and solidifying a promising future for the company.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

38% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jul 2022

$125m

SERIES D

Sep 2021

$125m

SERIES D

Total funding: $346.1m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities

Company values

  • Trust > Control
  • Collaboration > Parallelism
  • Candor > Harmony
  • Learning > Certainty
  • Results > Effort
  • Finishing > Starting
  • Humanity > Heroism
  • Shared Ownership > Specialization
  • Continuous Improvement > Continuous Production
  • Failure Recovery > Failure Avoidance

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

A Cambridge graduate and Y Combinator alumnus. Was a Business Analyst at McKinsey and worked in Product at OneFineStay.

Liam Don

(President)

Studied Computer Science at Durham University. Worked as a Games Developer at Jagex and researched Technology Enhanced Learning at Durham.

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