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Job Description:

Allovue believes every student deserves access to the resources they need to be successful in school. Our education resource planning software empowers K–12 administrators at every level to allocate resources to best support the needs of their students. We seek people who are creative, funny, humble, flexible, motivated, collaborative, and problem-solvers. We love and respect our team members. We also love silly GIFs.

Job Responsibilities:

Allovue is looking for engineers that display a love of their craft and are continuing to strive to learn more about programming and building software in general. We don’t stop at helping to facilitate K–12 education; we strongly believe to stop learning is to grow stagnant. We are looking for candidates that are varied in experiences and are generally well-versed in one or more specific areas of practice. Those areas may include:

front-end development
back-end development
data mining
operations

We have services written in R and Ruby: including a Rails API. We use Postgres and Elasticsearch as our persistence layers and Ember.js as the framework we currently use for our client-side application. Some languages we have been evaluating for upcoming services include Clojure, Elixir, and Node.js. We do not expect a candidate to have all of those skills currently, but s/he should be proficient in building web applications at scale.

Job Requirements:

5+ years of professional software development
Comprehensive knowledge of one or more of these languages: · JavaScript · Ruby · Clojure
Experience with MVC frameworks and paradigms
Excellent designer of APIs for other developers (and future self!)
Solid understanding of both unstructured and relational databases
Collaborative
Low ego and high pride in your

Allovue’s Current Stack

Code Ruby / Rails · JavaScript/Ember · R Data · PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch Infrastructure · Docker · AWS · Ansible

Benefits:

We appreciate that our team members invest their brilliance, creativity, and general amazingness into growing Allovue and serving our customers- so what will you receive in return?

Competitive salary, commensurate with experience
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
Employee-friendly option plans
Administration of a 529 plan (education savings account)
A team of smart, passionate, funny, kind people
Flexible hours and locations
Time to recharge with more than 3 weeks PTO

Values

Empowerment: We strive to harness the power of technology, and balance it with the empowerment of educators to make better decisions for their students.

Thoughtfulness: By balancing intuition, pragmatism, and information, we keep educators and their goals in mind when building our company and our products.