UI/Frontend Engineer, SchooLinks
React
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Career planning platform
Open for applications
Career planning platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform school districts into talent pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- Someone who is looking for growth and cares about pushing themselves to achieve
- Someone who has product sensibilities - we move fast and depend on developers to make judgment calls according to convention and the principle of least surprise and to know when to escalate when they're not clear on expected busines logic
- Someone who has design sensibilities - we have a strong component library that helps fill in many gaps. While some work we do is from high fidelity designs, we value the ability of FE developers to make design decisions and ship production code off of low fidelity mockups so we can go faster!
- Someone who is pragmatic and critical with their use of AI tools-- we care about both your fundamentals without the assistance of AI and your ability to harness it and will evaluate both in our hiring process. The AI/prompt-based stuff is pretty quickly learnable, so we will weight our evaluation to understand your human technical abilities more
- At least 4 years of experience shipping production-quality FE code using React
- Experience with react-query, Redux, Material UI, and Storybook
- Excellent written and spoken English communication
- You are not comfortable just building what you're told... specifically you must be comfortable taking ownership over technical decisions about code structure, and tooling, and be interested in the actual product you're working on
- Experience building complex and modern UIs that require a strong understanding of the underlying business logic
- Past work writing tested code and doing test-driven development
- FE Architecture planning abilities and experience
What the job involves
- Ship clean, readable, and maintainable React code
- Contribute and proactively elevate the quality of our codebase by writing tests and addressing technical debt
- Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, and product people who have shipped 50+ features in the last 2 years and have established SchooLinks as a company that has found product-market fit and transitioned us into a hyper-growth phase
- Participate in the product development process from start to finish, reviewing requirements and user stories to provide timely and meaningful feedback
- Design and build solutions that will scale to millions of users
Application process
- Application and Resume screen - we pay special attention to the questions that we're having you answer and look at these in conjunction with your resume
- Please do not answer "yes" to the questions about minimum experience if they don't apply to you-- we'll still consider you if you don't meet minimum bars, but if your answers are inconsistent with your resume, we won't look so kindly on that!
- Recorded Video Screen -- If we think based on your application and resume that you'd potentially be a good fit, we will send you a link to a program that asks you some questions about yourself and React/FE development
- This video will go to our engineering leads/engineering leadership to watch and decide if they'll take you through the interview process
- The recording takes less than 15 min
- If you're curious about our rationale for including this interview recording step in our process, you can read more here
- Live fit and technical discssion - with an engineering lead
- Trying to get your background, understand your resume, the type of work you graviate too and some of your technical experience
- We will ask some technical questions, but no prep is needed
- Live Coding Challenge - We'll have you make a simple React app from scratch by building a simple UI and making requests to an API we provide credentials for
- For this activity, the majority of the time we will expect you to share screen and implement the code yourself
- You can consult LLMs and other resources for reference, but we're looking to see how self-sufficient you are and what your knowledge of the tools is, too, so please bear that in mind
- Time-permitting, you can showcase your own workflow for code gen, but we view this as a bit more of a "nice to have" than essential for the purpose of this screen
- Live Requirement Planning Challenge- We will give you designs + requirements and a series of questions about your understanding of the designs and implied business logic
- Then we will ask you to write out your planning with us to come up with a proposal of how you would implement the feature
Our take
SchooLinks provides a framework to help students figure out what careers might suit them - and how to get there - through a multitude of features from personality tests to financial aid calculators.
Founded in 2014, the company has grown its market position with an increasing number of customers, and continued to develop and improve both its features and integrations. For example, a partnership with Common App has enabled students using SchoolLinks to directly apply to over 900 higher education institutions with ease.
SchooLink's most notable competitor is Naviance, another company supplying college and career readiness tools, which has also seen significant progress in the market. That said, SchooLink's strong history of growth coupled with having substantial funding at its back should allow it to solidify its own place and capture further success moving forward.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
273% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$80m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$8.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $90.6m
Company benefits
- Fully covered healthcare that includes vision, dental, and other perks, with partial dependent coverage
- Company sponsored 401k and up to 1% matching contributions
- (If you're on site in Austin) snacks and catered lunch at least once a week
- Asynchronous, results-first work culture
- 3+ Weeks PTO and 8 national holidays off
Company HQ
Govalle, Austin, TX
Leadership
Katie Fang
(CEO & Founder)Founded SchoolLinks soon after attaining a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Finance at the University of British Columbia.
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