ABOUT ALLOVUE

Allovue believes every student deserves access to the resources they need to be successful in school. Our education resource planning software empowers K-12 administrators at every level to allocate resources to best support the needs of their students. We seek people who are creative, funny, humble, flexible, motivated, collaborative, and problem-solvers. We love and respect our team members. We also love silly GIFs.

YOUR ROLE

As a Senior Software Developer at Allovue, you will have the important responsibility to build web applications that enable resources to be allocated equitably to K-12 students. You can contribute to our mission by:

- Prioritizing code readability over eloquence or performance

- Being passionate about learning

- Exercising discipline by writing tests, creating small Pull Requests, avoiding leaky abstractions, and cleaning up after yourself

- Making good choices on your own

- Helping our team improve in a kind, humble, flexible way

- Taking responsibility for delivering large changes in an efficient, effective way

- Collaborating with team members in all parts of the company to create the best solutions possible

- Making wise decisions about what existing tools to leverage if any

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Generate tasks to implement approved product ideas

- Document your pull requests as a communication tool to the team, including providing QA steps for product managers and directing other engineers toward notable changes.

- Provide feedback to your team members on their pull requests.

- Conduct release demos for the company upon delivery of new features to our customers.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Enough quality experience developing and maintaining web applications to have reached a senior level

- Experience building and maintaining web applications that have been deployed to a production environment with multiple users

- Maintained a production web application long enough to have suffered from your own bad decisions

- Experience teaching and helping other engineers

- Experience collaborating and planning with multiple types of product stakeholders

- Experience using multiple programming languages, libraries, frameworks, and tools

- Experience writing maintainable, automated tests

- Experience using Git version control system

- Experience having the primary responsibility to deliver large product features

TECH STACK

Knowing our tech stack is not a requirement for being hired. It's certainly nice if you know some parts already, but our primary concern is that you are good at learning and adapting. 

Current

- Elixir

- Phoenix Web Framework

- Phoenix Live View

- Alpine.js

- Tailwind CSS

- PostgreSQL

- Github Actions

- Deploy to Render.com

- AWS

Legacy

- Ruby

- Ruby on Rails

- Ember.js

- JSONAPI

- Ansible

BONUS POINTS

- Experience with accounting, HR, or ERP systems

- Experience with K-12 schools

- Experience with our tech stack

Salary Range: 125-140k