Staff Software Engineer, Doowii
Full-Stack
$180-240k
+ Equity
AI analytics for education
Open for applications
AI analytics for education
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$180-240k
+ Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To help education institutions leverage AI for academic excellence, student success, operational efficiency and financial sustainability.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Doowii team, with experience in front end development and backend data engineering, automation, data pipeline management, system integrations, and ETL processes
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Minimum of 7 years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including (but not limited to) Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SCSS, HTML, CSS, and SQL
- 5+ years of experience using cloud-scale services and server/service management features
- Demonstrated leadership experience in technical roles
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to drive projects to completion in a fast-paced environment
- Self-motivated and results-oriented, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and autonomy in decision-making
Desirable
- Masters in Computer Science or related technical field
- Awareness, passion, and experience related to Education Technology
- Startup experience
- Experience developing data analytics software
- Experience with LLMs, Vector DBs, and/or transformer models
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams and projects to success
What the job involves
- Leadership: Drive engineering projects to completion, lead technical discussions, and mentor junior engineers
- Product: Partner with executive & product teams to design and build a state of the art software solution, using the latest data science and AI technologies. Provide guidance on architectural decisions and ensure alignment with business goals
- Back-End: Develop and oversee well-functioning, reliable, and scalable database and storage solutions. Manipulate database queries and web storage to meet company and customer needs, ensuring optimal performance and reliability
- Integrations: Lead the integration of third-party services, tools, and APIs. Ensure a seamless data exchange and integration functionality. Validate and test APIs for compatibility, security, and performance. Handle advanced authentication and authorization mechanisms for interacting with external systems
- Reliability: Troubleshoot, debug, test, and fix bugs and product issues. Write and review internal technical documentation to record product requirements, architecture, concepts, designs, and support
- Security: Design and implement advanced security and data protection settings for internal product admins and external customers
- Optimizations: Strategize and implement features to optimize performance of internal and external products and features, ensuring scalability and efficiency
Our take
EdTech company Doowii helps educators gain access to advanced analytics and AI software. As a data interoperability layer, it provides tools for data analysis and visualisation, streamlining the path to informed decisions for educators.
With the diverse needs of education providers worldwide, Doowii offers a flexible and powerful resource. It works with large EdTech providers at K12 and higher education levels, implementing natural language queries for data visualisation, connected metrics and future predictions based on their data.
All of this helps educators create suitable syllabuses that target key areas in which students need improvement. The company has secured an early VC round of funding which is being channelled into accelerating product development and expanding its already substantial customer base.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2024
$4.1m
EARLY VC
May 2023
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.3m
Company benefits
- New-hire equity grant
- Open PTO policy & company holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Mission-driven culture and community
- Goal-setting, regular performance reviews, career-focused conversations, and internal trainings
Company HQ
Goss - Grove, Boulder, CO
Leadership
Benjamin D
(CEO)Previously a Senior Data Scientist at SnapChat, Mux and Marqeta.
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