Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Remote)
Company: Formative
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posted on: November 19, 2021
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Job Description:
Formative is looking for an experienced Senior Full Stack
Engineer to join our awesome team of developers. Are you interested
in an amazing opportunity that also makes a difference?
Are you right for our team?
Our web-app, Formative (formative.com), is used by 50K+ teachers
and 1M+ students every week, helping teachers see student responses
in real-time for immediate feedback and tracking growth to learning
standards.
To do this, we have a modern javascript stack (Typescript, React,
GraphQL, Apollo Client, webpack, mongoDB, Kubernetes, etc).
If you are great with Javascript and want to help teachers and
students, thats all we require. The position is work-from-home, so
we are looking for responsible, self-starters who want to join an
amazing team of 10+ full-stack developers.
Our technical interview is just one hour of pair-programming, where
we use a similar open source stack and see what its like to work
together.
We want you to be opinionated, factual, but willing to compromise.
You should be comfortable both giving and receiving feedback from
peers. We want to make each other better.
You will play a key role in carving out a future for our web
application and for the future of education. We currently have a
team of brilliant developers from whom you can learn from and grow
alongside.
With your input, help and expertise we will build an application
that will ultimately collect more classroom data on student
learning than any in human history. We want to use that data to
help teachers, schools, parents, students and entire communities
have unprecedented academic growth.
Responsibilities:
Requirements
Bonus Points If:
What's the Formative story?
Our co-founder, Craig Jones, was a middle school science teacher at
a struggling public school in South Los Angeles. Thanks to a school
grant, he was able to work with a class set of used laptops every
day. Initially, Craig patched together some basic software, a
student response system and a lot of spreadsheets to help
understand his students strengths and weaknesses to learning
standards. The technique of daily formative assessment, more
targeted intervention, and faster feedback ultimately led to
record-breaking academic outcomes.
After four years in the classroom, Craig went to grad school at
UCLA where he met Kevin McFarland, his roommate, and soon-to-be
co-founder. Together, Kevin and Craig envisioned a world where
faster formative teaching practices could replace traditional
end-of-year summative assessments. After multiple research
initiatives, prototypes, and the help of countless individuals,
Formative (goformative.com) was launched in January 2015.
Today, teachers from over 10,000 school districts across the US and
the world have signed up for Formative, driving thousands of
learning institutions to upgrade to more powerful partner status.
When surveyed, 90% of teachers reported that they believe using
Formative improved student achievement, and 97% of students report
more confidence in their understanding of the material. We are on a
mission to bring this transformative learning approach to more
teachers and students and to contribute to a stronger education
system. Are you interested in making a big difference for teachers
and students? Join us!
Benefits
The following benefits apply to full-time employees based in the
US.
We are not able to provide sponsorship (H-1B visa, etc.) for
employment at Formative.
Formative is committed to creating a diverse environment and is
proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran
status.
Keywords: Formative, Fort Lauderdale , Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Remote), IT / Software / Systems , Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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