12twenty is the leading platform for employers to connect with elite early career professionals. Our community includes millions of students, recent graduates, and alumni from top business schools, law schools, and universities around the world. We take pride connecting our community of candidates with recruiters from top companies across industries. Come join our fast growing organization!
We are searching for a talented, hands-on full-stack software engineering lead to help take our university career center SaaS platform to the next level! If you are a self-motivated, team player with a great attitude, excellent communication skills, strong work ethic, and a passion for building great products, we’d love to hear from you!
Your Role
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Lead a 3-5 person engineering sub-team (all remote), actively participating in design/architect discussions/decisions, code reviews, product iteration, and mentorship activities. Great communication skills and strong attention to detail is a must!
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Take full ownership over the velocity and quality output of the team and each team member
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Ensure team maintains a disciplined approach to write code and solve problems that adheres to the platform’s coding standards and architectural patterns
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30%-50% of time doing hands-on coding
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Work with two other leads to help guide the infrastructure and architectural decisions to ensure our platform is secure, maintainable, and scalable over the long term.
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Collaboratively work to solve complex, technical problems with a small, tight-knit team of smart, highly motivated developers in an agile environment, where code is released one to two times per week
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Architect, develop, code review, and support high-quality code and automated tests in a detail-oriented manner with software engineering best practices in mind. Deliver clean, maintainable code within a large, complex, and established code base.
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Refactor and redesign existing code to maximize performance, scalability, and maintainability, while building out comprehensive automated tests to reduce the risk of regression
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Effectively and respectfully communicate and collaborate with other members of the team - Devs, Product, and QA - to build innovative and intuitive features that our users will love
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Provide recommendations on ways to do things better; mentor and inspire team members to elevate the team and our code
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Take ownership and have accountability over modules and features
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Work in a fast-paced, fun environment with an eclectic group of people from all over the world
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Continue to learn and grow and apply those learnings to improve the team and organization
Your Experience
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7+ years of full-stack data-driven web application software development experience with C#; demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams
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Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science or related field
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Expertise with unit and integration testing and TDD concepts to build high quality, reliable code
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Experience applying software engineering best practices and design patterns for a SaaS product across a large codebase, multiple modules, and complex business rules
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Experience with SPA development and working with JavaScript frameworks/libraries like Angular or React
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Comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile environment, with frequent deliverables
About 12twenty
12twenty is a remote-first ed-tech company originally based in Santa Monica that’s changing the way university career centers, students, and employers approach recruiting.
Through its suite of SaaS web apps, 12twenty provides universities and employers with a platform to better connect students, career centers, and employers. Our mission is to equip universities with a platform that revolutionizes productivity and connections, enabling students and alumni to advance their careers and employers to hire quality and diverse talent.
We work on an extremely diverse set of features, modules, and integrations, including video conferencing, oauth, calendar sync, payments, apple wallet / android pay. We are continuously building new features and improving existing ones in the context of a relatively large and long-running mostly monolithic codebase that we are also continuously refactoring and improving.
Engineering Team Structure/Processes
We work in two week sprints, but deliver continuously. Our engineering team currently consists of ten devs, broken up into two subteams. Developers work closely with their teammates and the Product team to ensure we build with useability, maintainability, and scalability in mind. We put a strong emphasis on quality, automated testing, and clean code, though we also try to move fast to maximize value delivered to our customers.
Our development process:
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Iterate upcoming stories with Product and the team
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Engineer and lead work through a design review as needed for higher-level design decisions
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Engineer develops and thoroughly tests their own code, via both manual and automated tests
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Code is reviewed, first by a peer, then by the lead before it can be merged
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QA team manually tests the story
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Code is deployed once a week and as needed
The majority of our code is in a single solution with a little over 200 projects. While the codebase and architecture is mostly monolithic, we do have a few microservices as well.
Infrastructure: mostly on Azure, including App Services, SQL Database, Service Bus, Redis, Functions, Stream Analytics, Virtual Machines. We also use Cloudflare and AWS S3.
Tools we use: GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, and GSuite for our day-to-day tasks.
Our tech stack: C# (.NET Framework 4.72), .NET 7, Web API, MVC, AngularJs, Typescript, HTML, Less, Sql Server, Dapper, EF, and other technologies, including some legacy jquery and knockoutjs.
Technical Challenges
We are a small team working on a large number of modules and integrations across the platform, including job postings, on campus interviews, events, appointments, custom reporting, analytics, calendar sync, and single sign on.
We are continuously refactoring and improving the existing codebase, implementing design patterns and best practices as much as possible to build scalable infrastructure that is manageable and maintainable. However, our codebase is relatively large and long running. There is a lot to refactor and many patterns to consolidate. We are always balancing delivering direct value to the customer with repaying technical debt and ensuring we build for the long-term.
Upcoming Projects
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New products built on top of our framework within our existing platform, including a rebuild of our student-facing outcome analytics platform (which has helped some schools close the gender wage gap for post graduation offers!) and extensive improvements to our alumni platform to help alumni connect and network.
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Product enhancements to existing modules and features, which may include extensive refactors
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Infrastructure improvements within Azure to ensure security, scalability, high availability, and general reliability (e.g. scaling out our database, making better use of Redis and Service Bus, and improvements with observability and monitoring)
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Better reorganize code and dependencies to better encapsulate modules
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Upgrade to .NET 8 from .NET Framework (we are 70% of the way through this project)
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Rewrite our AngularJS code in React
Team Values
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Communication: offer suggestions, ask questions, be open; give and expect honesty, transparency, empathy, and respect
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Collaboration: work together to find the best solutions
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Continuous Learning and Improvement: always be looking for opportunities to improve both yourself and our product/code/team
Annual compensation range: Up to $180,000
The annual compensation range for this position is listed above. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on company compensation practices, job related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and trainings, in addition to geographic location.
In addition to the range below, US employees are eligible for equity. Employees in this position are also eligible to participate in the Company’s standard benefit programs, which currently include the following: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k), and paid time off.
Benefits & Perks:
- Competitive salary
- Generous PTO policy
- Full benefits, including 401(k)
- Regular team happy hours and activities
- Remote work flexibility
12twenty is an enterprise level talent acquisition platform connecting the world’s largest employers with students and alumni from top business schools and other graduate level institutions. The market for talent, especially highly qualified talent, continues to grow more and more competitive. 12twenty’s unique position as the connection between students, schools, and employers has fueled our rocketship growth. Come be part of our journey!
12twenty offers competitive salary and stock options and an amazing team to innovate and collaborate with. We love what we do, we embody a passion for continuous improvement, and we support each other to be excellent!
Check out a video from a recent user conference: https://vimeo.com/254762533
What We Do
12twenty is empowering schools to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Our intuitive platforms allow career advisers to more effectively manage the employment process, give students a better understanding of the recruiting cycle, and help employers find the perfect candidate. The world's top schools are using 12twenty to streamline their career analytics and management process.
Founded in 2010, 12twenty is a Santa Monica-based startup made up of passionate, talented, and hardworking individuals committed to bringing innovation to higher education.
