Senior Software Engineer

LearnZillion is the place to find outstanding Common Core lessons and resources that can be used immediately and effectively with students in grades 2-12.

Help us create the digital curriculum of the future.

Our well-funded, fast-growing education technology startup is looking for software engineers at all levels to help us create essential tools for teachers, parents, and students. You will play a key role in building LearnZillion’s technology platform and shaping its future. You will work closely with product designers, software engineers, academic team members, our co-founders, and user community to build our world-class web and mobile applications.

You should be technically skilled, focused, and creative.

Our Technology Stack

• Ruby on Rails 4 (HAML and SASS+Compass)
• Ruby 2
• Postgres
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Sidekiq
• GitHub, Code Climate, Circle CI, automated QA test suite

• Design and develop full-stack software to add impactful new features for teachers, students, parents, and administrative users
• Write unit, functional, and integration tests
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, product, and product design team members
• Scale our applications as our user base grows

• 4+ years of web application engineering experience with Ruby on Rails, SQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• A solid understanding of Ruby
• 1+ years of experience improving the performance of Ruby on Rails applications with Memcached or Redis and background job processing frameworks (Resque, Sidekiq, etc.)
• Intrinsically-motivated individual who loves to get things done