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Over the past several years, Intellispark has been building a platform to help K12 schools provide better support to students that are struggling with academic or behavioral issues. We do this by combining data, automation and collaboration tools in a unique way that creates a more effective team culture. We are passionate about education and helping students succeed. Intellispark is led by experienced ed-tech entrepreneurs that have built market defining products and companies.

About us

My name: Shaun Fanning
My position: Chief Product Officer/Co-founder
Company name: Intellispark
Company website: https://www.intellispark.com/
Company headquarters (country): United States
Company info and history (how you’re using Elixir etc): We have built an extensive Saas platform using Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView and Postgres(Aurora) on AWS that is actively used on a daily basis by customers across the U.S. Elixir has been a key ingredient in our level of productivity for a smaller team.

About the job

Job title: Senior Software Engineer
Job description: Your role will be to work within a small team of engineers to launch both major and minor new features, refactor existing features, fix issues, review PRs and help maintain a strong culture of clean architecture, testing, security and reliability. We are also rapidly expanding our data ingestion and automation pipeline, and ideally you can contribute to growth in this area of our business. Everyone on the team has a shared knowledge of devops, so it’s a plus if you feel comfortable as a contributor to help maintain and improve operations, especially with areas like job processing (Oban) and Amazon SES/email reliability. We have a relatively new part of our data processing pipeline written in Go, which you can contribute to as well if desired. The team is fully remote and we coordinate on Slack/Zoom. Engineers do not spend much time in meetings and have a lot of flexibility around scheduling their work.
Salary range: $135K - $165K
Qualifications or experience required: extensive experience building enterprise software and you have shipped elixir code to production in a real-world environment. Can conduct written and verbal team duties comfortably in English.

Position on remote work

Remote job: Remote only
Remote restrictions: Americas only (looking for timezones close to US timezones)

About the interview process

Zoom intro discussion with Founder/Chief Product Officer, then peer interview/technical discussion.

Further info

To apply, please use this link: Senior Software Engineer at Intellispark