Location:

Remote (must be based out of US / Canada)

Who We Are: 

Our mission is to create a culture of responsibility and awareness on the road. We are devoted to making the journey to and from school safer.  We develop partnerships, deploy Safety Tech and manage the entire program.  We have equipped thousands of buses across North America with our innovative technology and we continue to educate tens of thousands of drivers a month on safety.  BusPatrol America cares about student safety. We educate motorists every day by helping to enforce the law and work with school officials to improve safety.  

The Opportunity: 

Reporting to the VP Software Engineering, the successful candidate will both design and develop software, and lead a team of Developers.  You will be responsible for bridging important communication gaps to enable us meet our rapid growth goals. This position will require you to work in close concert, as part of a larger geographically distant team where you will be required to share your insights to drive a better process.   

What we need you to do: 

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and tested code
• Engineer documented, scalable, and secure APIs from deprecated legacy code
• Actively seek out knowledge about new technologies and how they can be used to solve current and foreseeable challenges
• Collaborate with the team to design and implement software logic following current best practices
• Provide guidance and direction to the team, ensuring high code quality
• Mentor and coach others on the team and practice peer-programming
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Drive continuous adoption and integration of relevant new technologies into design
• Stay open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems

What you bring: 

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience as a full stack developer
• 3+ years as a team lead or team leadership responsibilities
• 3+ years Ruby or Python experience
• 3+ years of experience with web frameworks (preferred: Rails or Rack)
• Proven work experience in an agile software development team
• Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Passion for writing great, simple, clean, efficient code
• Workable knowledge of MySQL, Postgres, or AWS Aurora databases
• Knowledge of version control, such as Git
• Ability to simplify complex problems
• Vue.js experience (preferred) 
• SASS experience (preferred) 
• IoT Technologies (preferred)
• Sinatra experience (preferred)
• Understanding of DevOps deployment processes and technologies; Docker, Jenkins etc. (preferred)

What we offer: 

• An opportunity to help build a company dedicated to children’s safety
• The chance to join an innovative and dedicated team, focused on leading edge technology
• Competitive salary and benefits package

We’re looking for critical members of the BusPatrol team to assist us in our quest to improve children’s safety.  This is an important role for us and a great opportunity for the right candidates.  Our environment is inclusive, diverse, ignited, built on integrity and deeply committed.  Come and help us keep our children safe.