Senior Software Engineer, Coursedog
Integrated academic operations platform
Open for applications
Integrated academic operations platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To break down barriers to opportunity for students.
Role
Who you are
- Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast paced environment, cares deeply both about code quality and user experience
- They love to solve complex problems in an elegant fashion, while ensuring flexibility and scalability
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript
- Knowledge of Node.js and Express
- Fluency with one or more modern web application frameworks, such as React or Vue. Nuxt.js is a plus
- Knowledge of MongoDB
- Experience with writing scalable and performant code
- Knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML5 & CSS
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
- Experience building microservices and serverless code/lambda functions
- Understanding accessibility and server-side security compliance
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Helpful: experience with PDF generation libraries, templating languages such as PUG, and CSV parsing
What the job involves
- We are looking for an innovative, fast-learning, and detail-oriented person to join our Engineering team as a Full Stack Engineer
- This individual will be responsible for implementing new features, maintaining existing ones and collaborating with other team members to build industry-shaping solutions for higher education
- Own:
- Drive development efforts from the initial idea to release to customer adoption
- Drive innovation in our tech stack
- Ensure our application is stable, performant and scales
- Collaborate:
- With other Engineering team members to ensure high code quality, knowledge sharing and ensuring our application is stable and future-proof
- With both Product and Customer Success team to resolve technical issues
- With the Product team to help to estimate the technical costs of new features, identify potential risks and suggest solutions that meet both explicit and implicit requirements
- Learn:
- Establish deep technical knowledge of specific parts of the product suite
Application process
- Stage 1: Applied
- Stage 2: Initial Phone Conversation
- Stage 3: Interview with the Hiring Manager
- Stage 4: Panel Interview
- Stage 5: Final Interview
- Stage 6: Reference Check
Our take
Higher Education is in crisis. The cost of education is skyrocketing, while only 33% of students in the US graduate in four years, and issues of equity and access are worsening. A big part of this can be put down to a lack of proper scheduling: 75% of universities operate entirely on legacy, on-premise software, resulting in millions of frustrated students saddled with heaps of debt.
Coursedog has set out to solve this. An integrated academic operations platform that helps higher education maximize operational efficiency, its strategy is based on market disruption, using data innovation to accelerate student success. Founded in 2018, it has partnered with over 200 higher education institutions, providing its curriculum-mapping software to more than 1.2 million students in total.
The global curriculum-mapping software market has really started to pick up in recent years, and Coursedog will face stiff competition from the likes of Top Hat, Kiddom, and PlanbookEdu. That being said, Coursedog's focus on accelerating product development has it well placed to continue poaching market share.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2023
$90m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2021
$17m
SERIES A
Total funding: $112.2m
Company benefits
- Time Off: We value work-life balance and provide a high amount of autonomy. In service of this, our Paid Time Off policy has no annual limit
- Remote-First: We value flexible working hours over set hours, results over number of hours, and asynchronous communication focused on transparency over need-to-know access
- Healthcare: We pay 99% of your medical, denal, and vision coverage and 75% of the premium for your spouse and/or dependents
- Equity: You'll be contributing to the team's success, so you deserve to share in it. Every employee on our team gets a meaningful equity allocation
- Retirement Plan: We offer a 401k plan on day one of your employment
- Parental Leave: To help support new parents in the workplace, we offer up to 10 weeks of paid parental leave
Company values
- Growth Mindset - Coursedog team members are hired for their capacity to grow. They approach challenges with gusto, capitalize on failures to fuel learning, and seek out continual opportunities for development
- Gratitude - Coursedog employees give thanks to one another. They vocalize their appreciation for the contributions of their team members, and recognize the hard work of every Coursedog employee as we work towards our shared goals
- Social Impact Focused - Coursedog team members believe higher education is the world’s greatest engine for opportunity. They believe that we have the opportunity to accelerate socioeconomic mobility & self-actualization for students, their families, and broader communities
- Transparency & Integrity - Coursedog team members prioritize honesty in every interaction. They give candid feedback to colleagues in real-time, have conversations of integrity with customers, and self-reflect without bias
- Selflessness - Coursedog team members put the team first. They step up to the plate to support and collaborate with one another, and recognize the joint effort it takes to succeed
- Mindfulness - Coursedog team members show up mindfully every day. They are consciously present in what they are doing, and approach the task at hand calmly and with an open mind
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Andrew Rosen
(CEO)Joined Coursedog as CEO in 2024. Prior to that, they were the CEO of Interfolio from Elsevier for over 8 years. They also spent time as the Senior Executive Vice President of MicroStrategy and as a General Manager of Education Technology Business at EAB.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Coursedog
- Coursedog is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce at all levels of the organization and creating an inclusive environment for all.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
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