Possip It: Full Stack Software Engineer

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Possip Summary:

Possip is a growing data-driven start-up that uses technology and insights to strengthen schools, students, and communities. Working with 1000+ schools and organizations across 29 states, we have an ambitious mission fueled by our desire to strengthen communities through improved communication. We believe every school can have simplified systems for hearing from parents. We also believe that race, language, and socioeconomic diversity should not be a barrier to communication between parents and schools. We are tech-enabled and people-centered.

Possip is built on Ruby on Rails, and utilizes Heroku, Twilio, AWS, and GCP.

After 5 years in market, Possip has served over 500,000 families collecting large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data.

Job Description:
We are looking for a Ruby on Rails developer responsible for building data-driven web products. Your primary focus will be the development of all necessary logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, as well as developer operations as necessary. Maintaining scalability, high performance, and responsiveness for front-end requests will also be part of your domain. You will also be responsible for building and integrating front-end components into the application, so an understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. Our team members take strong ownership of every system they touch, prioritize requests while staying flexible and positive, and are passionate about continual learning.

Possip is a remote team with current employees working from home or co-working spaces. We communicate frequently through video conference.

We’re looking for experience like:

Designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, reliable, and scalable Ruby code
Identifying opportunities to improve code, data management, and platform usability
Writing, enhancing, or updating code across the entire technology stack
Working with a variety of third-party API integrated services
Reviewing and debugging other developers’ code
Improving and maintaining applications after deployment
Management of an application hosted on Heroku
Building out architecture on either AWS or GCP
Strong programming foundations

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree
4+ years’ experience in web application development and product roles
Experience with Ruby and Rails
Demonstrated experience managing full development lifecycle from requirements, development, testing, deployment
Professional working experience with Heroku and AWS or GCP
Authorized to work in the United States

You will support a small start-up team working to grow a service and platform that will simplify and
enable parent to school feedback loops across a diversity of parents and schools. You must care about
integrating parent perspective into schools, and about helping schools learn and grow. You should be
able to successfully navigate diverse communities, constituencies and contexts.