Sde 3 - Backend

**SDE III - Backend**

**Who we are**:
We live the mission of Elevate K-12, and we're getting better each day, if all of this sounds exciting to you - We want to hear from you

**The Team**:
On the heels of a Series C funding led by General Catalyst, Elevate K-12 is enjoying strong business momentum, growing revenues at a 100% y-y, with plans to double again next year. To continue this momentum, we are investing in building out a strong product and technology function to power the next generation of solutions for students, teachers, and school/districts. The Elevate Software Engineering team, delivering cutting edge educational software at enterprise class scale and with consumer-grade experiences to deliver on our company mission.

**Your Mission**:
In pursuit of this goal, we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our technical team as we move from being a tech-enabled service to a tech product company. We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic people who love solving complex business problems and providing excellent technical solutions. If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven, education technology company and creating the future of EdTech, then this role is for you

**Problems you'll get to solve include**:

- Engineer virtual delivery solutions that enable Elevate live instructors to deliver the most personalized, interactive, and engaging instruction to K-12 students across schools in the United States today, and globally tomorrow, enabling them to learn effectively and prepare for the future.
- Build unique solutions to allow teachers to teach from anywhere, on their own terms, and to rediscover their love for teaching.
- Develop solutions that enable schools and districts to bring interactive live platforms in a seamless manner into their educational systems, giving them the ability to not only solve the teacher shortage crisis, but also offer unique learning opportunities for their students.
- Construct analytics and AI solutions to tailor content, curriculum, and teaching approaches based on large-scale education delivery models.

**The Job**:

- Lead User Stories and guide senior/software engineers in the development process
- Understand architecture principles, design patterns and implement them from architecture artifacts.
- Provide effort estimation of assigned work and be able to complete as per the estimations and timelines.
- Work and align with Technology Lead for everyday work to achieve set goals.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, design solutions, and implement new features.
- Develop and implement unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality.
- Ability to resolve performance issues.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
- Mentor software engineers and help them grow their technical skills.

**Must have**:

- B.E/B.Tech/master's in computer science (or equivalent).
- 8-11 years of experience
- Strong understanding of HLD, design patterns object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, data structures, algorithms and
- Highly skilled with one of the OOP programming language like C#, Java, Go-Lang.
- Highly skilled with one of the backend like MSSQL, MySql, Postgres, Oracle.
- Highly skilled at using Cloud: Azure/AWS.
- Strong leadership and mentorship skills.
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
- Good understanding of Agile software development methodologies
- Must understand full stack development frameworks including knowledge of building scalable APIs, interfaces, software components, schema design, availability, and latency preferably in a cloud environment.
- Worked in a fast-paced environment preferably in a tech driven startup or top tech organization at least 1/2 years.
- Understanding of different types of architectures.

**Nice to have**:

- Understanding of Frontend Technologies: Angular 2 or above.
- Understanding of MS Technologies: NET CORE 5+, C#.
- Understanding of Backend Technologies: MongoDB/AWS Dynamo/AppSync/GraphQL.
- GitHub Repository or Stack overflow link.
- At least 2 years of experience in building an entire product end-to-end and ability to technically lead a team of 6-10 engineers.
- Track record of building successful products involving complexity/ambiguity with proven/visible impact metrics.
- Knowledge of Jitsi or any media server is desirable.

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.