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Lead Ruby on Rails Software Engineer NoRedInk
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NoRedInk is transforming education through adaptive learning and personalization. We're one of America's fastest growing startups, and every 0.25 seconds, a student solves a question on our site. We solve complex and fascinating data problems while striving to eliminate the "red ink" on students' papers and empower tens of millions of students around the globe.... And we want you to join us.
Fresh off of winning NBC's $75,000 Innovation Challenge, and funded by top-tier investors, we're hiring a full-stack engineer to run our technical show, pioneering new assessment types that fundamentally alter the way kids learn.
Technical Challenges We Think About
- How we can build novel, scalable, cross-platform compatible question types that engage kids in authentic ways? This is a deep problem with huge implications for online testing, and we have the opportunity to blow this wide open.
- How to best leverage our huge (and growing) unique data set -- millions of naturally occurring student writing errors -- using it to revolutionize future learning outcomes for others?
This could be a good fit for you if you're entrepreneurial, passionate about disrupting education, very smart, and looking for a pivotal leadership role on a small team. You'll have very competitive compensation, all the mac equipment your heart desires, a gym membership, and fantastic benefits. More importantly, you'll be doing work that really matters, and nearly every code push you do will directly affect millions of students, teachers, and parents all over the world.
Skills & Requirements
- You're very smart, you dream big, and you want to be in charge of something huge
- You have experience supporting an entire stack w/ modern web frameworks (Rails/Django)
- You're an expert in Ruby, Javascript, Linux and MySQL
- You design with OOP, SOLID, MVC and REST in mind
- You test at the unit, functional and integration level
- You can be your own DBA (setup, optimization and troubleshooting)
- You actively track new languages and technologies, and you love Macs
- You're famiiar w/ Git, CSS, HTML, JQuery, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js & Rackspace Cloud/AWS
- You're entrepreneurial. You want to leverage cool technology to change children's lives. You want in early at a startup that's surging. You want to win.
To Apply
Please send an email to jobs at noredink.com, including why you think you'd be a good fit. Please include links to your LinkedIn, projects you've worked on, and your github if you have one. We look forward to meeting you.
About NoRedInk
NoRedInk.com is an adaptive learning tool that helps students improve their grammar/writing skills. Our engine generates personalized curriculum from students' interests and adapts to their abilities with instant feedback, tutorials, and color-coded heat maps. With no marketing, we're in 5% of U.S. schools. We won NBC's $75,000 Innovation Challenge in September and have been featured on the TODAY show, Mashable, TechCrunch, MSN.com, US News & World Report, and Hack Education. We're well funded, backed by ImagineK12, and led by an English teacher who, after grading 15,000 papers, decided to leverage technology to eliminate "red ink."
| Location: | 2395 Broadway St Redwood City, CA 94063 United States |
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| Full Time | |
| Engineering / Product Dev / Science | |
| Education K-12 |
THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
NoRedInk
NoRedInk is transforming education through adaptive learning and personalization. We're one of America's fastest growing startups, and every 0.25 seconds, a student solves a question on our site. We solve complex and fascinating data problems while striving to eliminate the "red ink" on students' papers and empower tens of millions of students around the globe.
< 5M RaisedInvestors: Hyde Park Venture Partners, Learn Capital, Mayfield Fund, NewSchools Venture Fund, Social+Capital Partnership
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| Web Site: | www.noredink.com |
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| Headquarters: | 120 Hawthorne Ave Palo Alto, CA 94301 United States |
| Employees: | 1-10 |
| Industry: | Software |
| NoRedInk.comis an adaptive learning tool that helps students improve their grammar/writing skills. Our enginegenerates personalized curriculumfrom students' interests and adapts to their abilities with instant feedback, tutorials, and color-coded heat maps. With no marketing, we're in 5 of U.S. schools. We wonNBC's 75,000Innovation Challengein September and have been featured on theTODAY show,Mashable, TechCrunch,MSN.com,US News & World Report, andHack Education. We'rewell funded, backed byImagineK12, and led by an English teacher who, after grading 15,000 papers, decided to leverage technology to eliminate "red ink." |
