ClassDojo aims to provide every child on Earth with an education they love, starting with a powerful communication network.
The flagship app is the #1 communication app connecting K-12 teachers, children, and families globally, actively used in over 95% of US schools and reaching over 45 million children in 180 countries.
The company is composed of around 200 talented individuals from various backgrounds, including education and large-scale consumer internet companies.
The role involves improving the platform by writing, debugging, and optimizing code for the infrastructure that supports all teams.
Responsibilities include collaborating with teams through pair programming, mob programming, code reviews, and design sessions.
The position requires seeking opportunities for shared value through improvements in systems, tooling, and practices, as well as supporting and enhancing build and delivery pipelines.
The engineer will contribute to technical design and architecture discussions and help unblock teammates and other teams.
The role emphasizes breaking down work for incremental improvements, growing other engineers, systematically improving product quality, and fostering collaboration and psychological safety.
Requirements:
Candidates must have 10+ years of professional software experience, with over 2 years focused on infrastructure/platform roles.
A proven impact in previous organizations is required.
Experience driving technical excellence through process, practices, and tools, including test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices, is essential.
Strong communication skills are necessary.
Candidates should be excited to work in a fast-paced environment and possess an ownership mindset, being comfortable with responsibility and accountability.
A thoughtful approach to creating and maintaining a world-class engineering culture is expected.
Enjoyment of pair programming is important.
A passion for education and a desire to impact tens of millions of kids' lives through work is required.
Candidates must live and work in the Americas timezones.
Benefits:
ClassDojo is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of various factors, including race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
The company considers qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Accommodations for disabilities or special needs are available.
ClassDojo is a distributed company, hiring regardless of location, provided there is significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
Salary ranges vary by location, with compensation for CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states between $171,500 - $250,000 (USD) and for all other US states between $146,000 - $215,000 (USD).
