Senior Software Engineer, Swing Education
$144.4-159.6k
+ Stock options
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Connecting nationwide schools with substitute teachers
Job no longer available
Connecting nationwide schools with substitute teachers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$144.4-159.6k
+ Stock options
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To connect reliable, high-quality substitute teachers with the schools and students that need them.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional full stack software development experience
- Solid knowledge of modern JavaScript, TypeScript, and React
- Significant experience designing and architecting software solutions
- Significant experience designing and consuming REST APIs
- Experience in front-end development using modern Javascript frameworks, such as React or Vue
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally in a fully remote environment
- Experience leading projects and mentoring others to solve problems
- Comfortable with modern infrastructure essentials like AWS, Docker, CI/CD tools, etc
- Experience developing and shipping production-grade services in an agile, product-oriented environment
- A track record for becoming a domain expert in both technical and business areas
- Excitement about working at a mission-driven startup, and the opportunity to have an outsized influence on the trajectory of the company
- Passion to foster a diverse and inclusive culture
- High standards for themself and others, and attention to detail
- Pride in owning projects end to end and driving them to successful completion
- A strong sense of urgency and a bias to action
- Open communication skills — asks questions, assumes good intentions, and defaults to transparency
Desirable
- Previous experience building/deploying UI component libraries
- Previous EdTech, startup, or online marketplace experience
- New user onboarding and first touch tailoring experience
- Knowledge of web accessibility principles and experience implementing them in a web or mobile app environment
- Experience with Clojure or other Lisp dialects
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer I to join our growing engineering team
- You’ll partner with product management and design to architect, implement, test, iterate and maintain features that will bring unprecedented technology to the school and substitute teacher marketplace
- You’ll play a key role in helping us modernize and reimagine our codebase, infrastructure, processes, and products
- This role will meaningfully impact Swing Education’s mission to ensure that learning never stops in K-12 classrooms
- We have a diverse, supportive Product, Design, and Engineering (PDE) team that values experimentation, learning, and personal growth
- Your fellow engineers will help get you ready to contribute quickly
- We also have lots of exciting work in the pipeline, ready for an engineer like you!
- Foster a collaborative environment for you and your teammates to deliver high-quality, reliable, and well-tested features
- Ensure that the code meets performance, reliability, quality, security, and testability standards
- Craft technical specifications that illuminate the hidden complexities of feature development and offer straightforward solutions to engineering challenges
- Mentor others to solve problems and lead complex projects. Share your knowledge with your peers by presenting at our monthly DevChats
- Champion building products that produce valuable outcomes for our users
- Collaborate closely with product management and design on requirements, priorities, sizing efforts and tradeoffs
- Collaborate with teams across the organization to accomplish our holistic company goals
Our take
On average, US students are with substitute teachers for 5% of the typical school year. That means students have substitute teachers for more than six months of their K-12 school career. The problem? The US is suffering from a national shortage of substitute teachers.
Swing Education is focused on tackling the substitute teacher shortage, with its online platform that connects schools and quality substitutes. With this, schools can access more substitutes, as well as offload the tedious work associated with managing them. Substitutes are in turn provided with a wider range of work opportunities - creating a model of mutual benefit where schools get the teachers they need whilst substitutes gain experience and can build their professional network.
Swing Education's early metrics were impressive, showcasing the high utility of its offering. In its first 5 years of operation it worked with over 1500 schools, filling over 150k teacher absence days. Now, it has surpassed the milestone of facilitating over a million hours of classroom teaching. With this success has come considerable funding, the latest of which will be invested in accelerating the growth of the company.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$38m
SERIES C
Oct 2018
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $76m
Company benefits
- Maternity & Paternity Leave
- Flexible Work Hours
- Unlimited Snacks & Drinks
- Generous PTO
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401K
Company HQ
Beresford Park, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Mike Teng
(CEO)Previously Director of Technology at Rocketship Education.
Osbert Feng
(CTO)Previously a Software Engineer and Web Developer at Hun Research and Identified.
Asha Visweswaran
(COO)Previously Senior Manager of Cyber Risk Services at Deloitte & Touche.
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