The Role: 

As a Software Engineer you will work on a team that solves big problems in K-12 education, from building the infrastructure necessary to handle tens of millions of users to solving novel problems in text complexity and personalization. You will work on an interdisciplinary team spanning Engineering, QA, Design, and Product to ensure Newsela ships weekly product that is accessible and performant at scale. You’ll be involved in the development phase of projects, and you will co-write tickets representing work to ensure they are scoped appropriately and communicated clearly to the necessary stakeholders. As a member of our Tech team, you will also participate in Scrum Ceremonies and code reviews held by the team. 

Why You’ll Love This Role: 

Reporting to the Manager of Application Development, you will be part of a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team, and will own a user-facing part of Newsela’s product. This role gets you flexing your product and design skills, as well as your expertise in software development. You get to be part of a team that designs solutions as well as builds them; you will be shaping the product to ensure that beautifully designed features are shipped to Newsela’s national user base. As we scale, you’ll be releasing code weekly. And because we're a technology company focused on improving the way students learn, you’ll be part of an engineering culture that values teaching, learning, and questioning.

Why We’ll Love You: 

You have 2+ years of professional web application development experience, and competency in our tech stack (Javascript, REST). You also possess foundational knowledge of CSS, HTML, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. You practice lean and flexible software development, are familiar with kanban boards, and have demonstrated experience building in responsive design natively without a frontend framework (across mobile, tablet, and desktop). Ideally, you are very comfortable writing in Javascript against the browser’s native API. 

In addition to your coding skills, you are able to work and communicate with Design,Engineering, Data, and Product teams to produce timely, healthy code. You can seamlessly illustrate concepts from a single function all the way to a system architecture, defend the intention of your solutions, and can explain the implications to technical and non-tech experts alike. You bring an informed point of view to your team, and pay as close attention to design as you do to your code.

About Newsela:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels -- from +100 of the best sources -- that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.