Front-End Specialist Software Developer

At Success Academy, we are redefining what’s possible in public education. Our schools rank in the top 1% in math and top 2% in English Language Arts among all New York State schools, while serving children with an overall poverty rate of 70%. Success Academy Charter Schools are dedicated to academic excellence, character development, and extracurricular achievement with college graduation as an end goal.

We are looking for a Software Developer, Front-End Specialist to join our Data Science and Software Team! Being part of the Success Academy’s Data Science and Software team means you'll be building real products that will have an immediate effect on our organization and our students. You should be comfortable jumping in the deep end and learning new skills. Joining the team will help bring our software, platforms and your ideas into reality.

* Implement the features and user interfaces of Success Academies software platforms * Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications * Work with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Backend Engineers to deliver amazing user-facing platforms * Identify and provide solutions for scalability challenges

**An ideal candidate will demonstrate competency in the following areas:** * Experience building modern websites and web tools with the Django framework * Experience building websites with a responsive UI * Very strong HTML/CSS skills - Very strong JavaScript skills * Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases * Experience working with UI designers to implement product designs * Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills * Strong communication and team collaboration skills * Experience with object-oriented and asynchronous programming **Preferred (but not required) qualifications also include:** * Experience in a fast paced / customer centered agile startup environment * Previous experience at a software company that focused on video, audio, and document storage and distribution technology * Experience with scalable cloud deployment environments such as AWS and Rackspace **How we work:** * REST APIs * Python * Agile, automated tests, continuous integration * Asynchronous Workflows / Task Queues, such as Celery * Databases: MySQL, NoSQL such as S3 and Mongo * Audio & video processing tool kits: ffmpeg * Search technologies: ElasticSearch, Lucene * HTML5 / AJAX / jquery / backbone / Django **Just in case you were worried:** * We don’t support IE 6, 7 or 8!