Cloud Platform Engineer, ClassDojo
$146-244k
Communication app for primary schools
Job no longer available
Communication app for primary schools
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$146-244k
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. More than 2 of those years were in a role that focused primarily on infrastructure/platform
- You have made an impact in the organizations that you've joined
- 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'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 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
What the job involves
- We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here—and you’ll pioneer the future of education, too.
- Write, debug, and optimize code for our platform—the infrastructure that all of the rest of our teams depend on
- Collaborate with your team and other teams 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 make improvements incrementally
- Help grow other engineers into more senior engineers
- Systematically improve the quality of our product and process
- Encourage collaboration and psychological safety
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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