Overview
You’ll be contributing to all levels of the stack: designing front-end user experience, implementing back-end APIs, and enhancing continuous deployment and system monitoring on AWS. You’ll also be involved in all stages of the product development process: from conducting user interviews with teachers and administrators to educating our Partnerships and Success teams about new product features.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop new or enhance existing features across the stack, from user interface to backend API and data model
- Perform customer development interviews with educators and administrators to better understand their needs and get feedback on new features and designs
- Contribute to enhancing our DevOps and system administration/monitoring capabilities
- Manage and analyze user and site analytics
- Collaborate and participate in strategic initiatives that impact the entire organization across sales, marketing, content, and professional services
Required Skills & Experience
- 2+ years software development experience
- Built a full-stack web application from front to back
- You love to code, learn the latest technologies and have projects you are tinkering on for fun
- Have experience with Go, Ruby, and Javascript
- Passion for tackling the most challenging issues in K-12 education
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial spirit – you’re not here to just execute; challenge us and inspire us and make this your company too
- A sense of humor
Desired Skills & Experience
- MongoDB
- Deployed and managed AWS EC2 instances
- Client-side Javascript MVC (e.g. AngularJS
- Rapid prototyping/sketching tools (e.g. InVision)
Perks of Working at Goalbook
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Small team culture and true ownership of work. Your ideas matter
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A truly motivated, passionate, talented and fun team. We’re collectively interested in helping you grow in your career
- Open vacation policy: Take PTO and work from home as needed
- Sweet office in downtown San Mateo near Caltrain with a bottomless supply of snacks, drinks and good times
- H-1B / Green Card sponsorship available
Contact
Reach out to Daniel Jhin Yoo at jobs@goalbookapp.com and provide a cover letter, resume, LinkedIn, and how you heard about us. This position is for our San Mateo office and cannot be based remotely.
** Please note if you are a recruiting agency or headhunter, please do not message us as you will be considered spam. **
About Goalbook
Are you looking for your next challenge where you have a pivotal role in a small company? We may be what you’re looking for. At Goalbook, we empower teachers to transform instruction for all students through our best-in-class resources and research-based professional development. We partner with more than 275 districts in 43 states. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an early-stage company that is developing innovative solutions to address deeply-embedded societal challenges.