Position summary

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to become a core member of a small engineering team. You will be involved in product management, design for architects, implementation, testing, and iteration of features that will bring unprecedented technology to School and Bubost Teacherplace. You will play a key role in helping us mature and scale our team, CodeBase, infrastructure, processes and products. This role will meaningfully impact Swing’s mission to ensure learning never stops in K-12 classrooms.

This will be a full time position.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Fosters a collaborative environment for you and your teammates to deliver high-quality, reliable, and well-tested features

• Ensure that the code meets performance, reliability, quality, security and testability

• Mentor others to solve problems and lead complex projects

• Champion Products Building products that produce valuable results for our users

• Collaborate closely with product management and design on requirements, priorities, scaling efforts and trade-offs

• Collaborate with teams across the organization to achieve our overall company goals

technology

• Our core applications are React ClojureScript based web applications (which is a Clojurescript wrapper around React)

• Our mobile app is built with React Native

• Our backend API is written in Clojure and our primary data store is datomic. All daily development will be in clojure.

• Please note that previous clojure experience is not a requirement but is nice. We are confident that we can train as needed and that our engineers will enjoy working in Clojure.

• Deployment is CI-driven, built on top of AWS ECS and Cloudformation via Novx

What you will bring

• More than 5 years of professional software development experience

• Extensive experience in designing and manufacturing software solutions

• Solid knowledge of databases, SQL, and version control tools

• Significant experience in building and consuming APIs

• Experience in front-end development using modern JavaScript frameworks, such as React or Vue.js

• Comfortable with modern infrastructure basics such as AWS, Docker, CI/CD, etc.

• Experience leading projects and directing others to solve problems

• Experience developing and shipping production services in a product-oriented agile environment

• Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in both technical and business areas

It’s good to be there

• Previous Clojure, ClojureScript, Datomic, or Lisp-based language experience

• Previous experience building/deploying UI component libraries

• Previous mobile development experience via React Native

• Previous EDTECH, startup or online experience

• New user on board and first touch stitching experience

We are looking for someone who has

• Excitement about working at a mission-driven startup, and the opportunity to have a huge impact on the company’s trajectory

• Passion for promoting a diverse and inclusive culture

• High standards, for themselves and others, and attention to detail

• Pride in owning projects through to the end and pushing them to successful completion

• Strong sense of urgency and bias for action

• Open Communication Skills – Asks questions, assumes good intentions, and defaults to transparency

compensation

Salary is commensurate with experience and is adjusted for cost of living standards which depend on the location of the position. Swing Education offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes the following perks:

• Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits

• Generous PTO

• Paid holidays

• Family leave

• Stock options

• Professional development payment program

• Mission-driven work

• Fun, collaborative, balanced culture