Senior Fullstack Engineer, ClassDojo
$146-244k
Salary dependent on location
Communication app for primary schools
Open for applications
Communication app for primary schools
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$146-244k
Salary dependent on location
201-500 employees
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 10+ years of professional software experience
- You have delivered impactful user and business outcomes
- You have driven technical excellence through improvements to process, practices, and tools (e.g. experience with test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices)
- You have strong communication. You clearly translate business requirements into technical solutions
- 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
- You live and work in the Americas timezones
Desirable
- You’ve used Node and/or React at scale
- You've worked with MongoDB or MySQL
- You have DevOps experience, especially on AWS
What the job involves
- As a 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
- You’ll help us further develop our high-quality engineering culture, one that values rapid iteration, collaboration, and best practices
- Write, debug, and optimize new and existing code for our web apps, API, databases, infrastructure with automated tests and monitoring
- Deliver code to production and features to users frequently and incrementally
- Collaborate with your team through pair programming, mob programming, code reviews, and design sessions
- Seek out opportunities to provide shared value through improvements of our common systems, tooling, and practices
- Support and improve our build and delivery pipelines
- Contribute to technical design and architecture conversations with your expertise and perspective
- Help to unblock teammates as well as other teams through hands-on work and guidance
- Break work down so we can deliver value to users incrementally
- Help grow other engineers into more senior engineers
- Systematically improve the quality of our product and process
- Encourage collaboration and psychological safety
- Know and spread awareness about the larger business context of what teams and individuals are working on
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
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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
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Leadership
Sam Chaudhary
(CEO)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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