[geoffharcourt]

CommonLit | Full-time | Remote-US

Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Rails, Typescript)

CommonLit is a 501(c)3 non-profit whose mission is to improve the educational and economic outcomes of students through better literacy and critical thinking skills. Our non-profit's application supports millions of students in the United States and around the world with a rigorous, high-interest literacy curriculum in English & Spanish.

Our small (nine-member) engineering team works in a collaborative, high-trust environment where we ship high-quality software to power CommonLit's curriculum and to assist teachers in assessing their students growth. As a Senior Engineer you'll lead significant technical projects, contribute your own code, review teammates' work, and advance CommonLit's mission. You'll act as a force-multiplier for your teammates' work in addition to your own high-leverage contributions.

Our team is a group of life-long learners. We value sharing new ideas, lifting each other up, and building performant, reliable software that teachers can rely on in the high-stress classroom environment.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer your work will include: * Writing high-quality Ruby and Typescript code and tests for our Rails monolith * Reviewing your teammates' work in our code review workflow * Researching technical ideas for upcoming projects * Mentoring and helping level-up less experienced engineers * Deploying and operating our application

Qualifications: * 5-8+ years of web development experience with some of that time spent on a Rails production application * Experience working with a modern JavaScript framework (React, Vue, etc.) * Ability to work comfortably in SQL (we use PostgreSQL & Redshift) * Experience dealing with performance and scaling issues * You have a commitment to improving equity of opportunity for students of color

Location: Remote-US or Washington, DC

Pay: $150k-$210k

Apply at: https://www.commonlit.org/en/careers/senior-full-stack-softw...