Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Summary

Join ClassDojo as a full-stack engineer and contribute to building systems supporting rapid growth. You will work on production code from day one, deploying frequently and collaborating with a team. Your work will directly impact millions of students, teachers, and parents globally. You'll help develop a high-quality engineering culture emphasizing rapid iteration and best practices. The role requires significant software experience and a passion for education. ClassDojo is committed to equal employment opportunity and offers competitive compensation.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Ship new and improved features to end users in collaboration with your team
• 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
• Contribute to cross-team technical improvements and investments
• 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
• Contribute to better practice, processes and teamwork
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Salary ranges (United States): CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $171,500 - $244,000 (USD)
• Salary ranges (United States): All other states in the US: $146,000 - $207,500 (USD)
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