About Us:
Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the only elementary learning experience platform, offering a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
Our Mission:
Seesaw’s mission is to provide every elementary student with joyful and connected learning experiences that lay the foundation for success in life.
Your Team:
This role is a part of our RITS (Rostering, Integrations, Tools, and Setup) Team, a full-stack team that is focused on student rostering & setup experience, as well as building seamless integrations with other ed-tech platforms.
Solving impactful problems on Seesaw’s Engineering team feels different from any other place. First, we are given ownership over the product roadmap early on, collaborating on how and when things will be built from the start. Second, we have a strong connection to the user, listening to teacher feedback and observing how students and families interact with the platform in real life to iterate over our releases. And third, we enjoy ample autonomy to experiment and grow, and often see our ideas pushed to production in weeks, not months.
Globally, millions of children rely on Seesaw every day. That fact is inspiring, and at times, daunting. While we derive a deep sense of purpose from being able to improve students’ learning, it also means we’re emotionally invested in both the successes and failures. So when a child can’t log into their account or something on the platform breaks, we feel it.
Like the rest of the company, our team is growing fast. Keeping up with the pace of growth can be challenging, and we need your flexibility as we define and refine what we need to be. We often learn by shipping, so you won’t find an obsession with rigid processes here. As the Engineering team ramps up hiring, we’re committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); constantly surveying employees, participating in training, and learning from our DEI Committee.
Though we care deeply and work diligently, there’s no extra credit for working long nights or spending weekends squashing bugs. When we’re off, we’re really off, enjoying our personal lives and recharging our batteries.
At the end of the day, we delight in how much our users adore our product. It’s incredibly fulfilling to read thank you posts from teachers and know that, hey, we built something that makes a meaningful impact! And while we saw massive growth during the pandemic, we’ve still got a lot more growing to do. Joining our team now means you’ll get to help us take on new markets and innovate the next features that make the learning experience even better.
Your Role:
We’re looking for an experienced Full-Stack Engineer to both help build internal tools as well as deliver product experiences that delight students, teachers, and families. This role is a part of our RITS (Rostering, Integrations, Tools, and Setup) team, a full-stack engineering team responsible for streamlining the student rostering & setup experience, as well as building seamless integrations with other ed-tech platforms. Your contributions will directly impact how educators, students, and families around the world engage with Seesaw.
Your Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the product, UX, and engineering teams to deliver user-facing products at scale quickly
- Contribute to an iterative development process to deliver new features that students, teachers, families, and school administrators love.
- Full-stack software development for our web app (React) and backend (Python / DynamoDB / ElasticSearch).
- Help develop a strong technical roadmap and engineering culture through design proposals, industry engagement, and more.
Your Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience developing and shipping features across a frontend and backend stack (front-end emphasis).
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals - a bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience (bootcamps + non-traditional background are great too!)
- Direct experience designing, developing, and maintaining software at scale. The best candidates will have shipped web applications to millions of users, and will be able to talk about the architecture that supports that scale.
- Strong command of modern web technologies, including at least one SPA framework. (React, Angular, Vue, etc.).
- Experience developing and using REST APIs or GraphQL.
- Comfort working within complex systems and ability to write readable, maintainable self-documenting or well-documented code to solve complex problems with simple, elegant solutions.
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What We Do
Seesaw is a learning platform that brings educators, students and families together to deepen student learning. Teachers design and facilitate powerful learning experiences, students create, reflect, collaborate, and make their learning visible, and families actively support and celebrate student learning. Seesaw is used by over 10 million teachers, students and family members every month across more than 75% of schools in the U.S.
Why Work With Us
We’re a team of engineers, educators and lifelong learners who wake up every day thinking about igniting students’ passion for learning and solving the challenges teachers face in making it happen. Join us and inspire students to be their best!
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