Senior Backend Engineer, Elevate Labs
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Cognitive skill enhancing app
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Cognitive skill enhancing app
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Elevate is on a mission to improve people's minds.
Role
Who you are
- You have 7+ years of professional software experience in backend development
- You are experienced with Ruby on Rails
- You are passionate about product-focused problem-solving
- You stay up to date with the latest backend development news and technologies
- You have experience integrating 3rd party APIs, especially single sign- on, purchasing, and analytics
- You communicate clearly and are willing to give critical feedback to improve the product
- You can identify areas for improvement and drive projects to completion without a manager consistently directing your work
- You have shipped at least one customer-facing product
What the job involves
- Lead the technical design and implementation of complex projects by working closely with Product Management, Marketing, and Content to define problems, come up with solutions, and deliver high-performance, reliable backend systems that support our apps
- Introduce new ideas to help the team iterate on process and technology
- Mentor fellow engineers, help them grow their skills, and be open to learning from your teammates as you continue to grow your own skills
- Focus mainly on backend development but occasionally help out your teammates in other areas of the stack (Data, DevOps, iOS, Android, etc.)
Our take
Elevate Labs central product - the Elevate App - is a gamified mobile app that provides cognitive training in skills such as maths and language. Developed by former MindSnacks CEO Jesse Pickard, Elevate App has raised more than $20 million in funding, putting it in a strong position against a myriad of competing “brain training” apps.
Though central competitor Lumosity has received substantially more funding than the company and has more users worldwide, Elevate has won multiple app of the year awards thanks to its punchy design and subtler games.
Elevate App is also drawing attention from the language learning market. Whilst the practical skills acquired from cognitive learning apps are still contested, Elevate could find prolonged interest from language education and international business sectors thanks to its subtler approach to conversational skills, challenging the user in reading, writing, and listening, rather than building blocks of language. As it stands though, Elevate is steadily growing its popularity as a casual mobile game application
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2018
$17m
SERIES B
Jan 2016
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $34m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- Distributed team flexibility, with a home-office stipend and co-working reimbursement
- Annual learning, wellness, and travel stipends
- Generous PTO, flexible sick leave, and paid parental leave
- Annual company meetup in fun location
Company values
- Dream big, execute small
- Educate with Integrity
- Embrace straight talk
- Never stop learning and teaching
- Own your impact
- Show grit
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Jesse Pickard
(CEO & Founder)Currently Investing Partner at Volo Ventures. Previously Co-Founder and CEO at MindSnacks, Information Architect at RazorFish and Design Intern at IndustryNext.
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