Litnerd · 3 days ago
Director of Engineering
NYC and Miami or Remote (USA based)
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$130K/yr - $180K/yr
6+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Build and improve on user-facing products such as our Book Reader, Live Polling, and other classroom management tools
Build reliable backend services that power our web application and mobile apps
Create admin tools to help us scale managing processes and workflows, including onboarding schools and scheduling live sessions
Ensure a low-friction experience for our users
Build and maintain platform features such as:
Engineering infrastructure (databases, servers, data pipelines) to keep up with our growing userbase
CI/CD pipelines to ensure product development moves at a rapid pace
Automate and scale notifications, such as email and SMS
Qualification
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Required
6+ years of experience in engineering
Experience with React, Node.JS, NestJS, Typescript (or other typed languages)
Experience building, testing, and deploying web applications in production environments
Understanding of systems-level programs (bash, git)
Experience with functional programming, domain-driven design
A passion for thoughtful engineering, thorough testing, and a deep sense of ownership over products and code shipped
Self-starters who excel in a fast-paced startup environment
Understanding of modern browser features (web workers, local storage)
Understanding of web best practices including accessibility
Experience testing code via unit tests and integration tests, both locally and in CI/CD environments
Understanding of relational databases (Postgres) and migrations in production environments
Understanding of in-memory and document-based data stores, e.g. Redis, DynamoDB
Experience building and scaling low latency APIs
Experience with monitoring and logging in production applications
Experience with serverless concepts, FaaS, k8s
Data modeling experience with relational and non-relational databases
Deep understanding of SQL, Python
Preferred
Experience developing and maintaining data processing pipelines
Work with business stakeholders to create analytics charts, dashboards
Collect and process analytics data from web properties
Company
Litnerd
Litnerd brings the creator economy to traditional K-12 education, offering a cohort based reading and SEL program to schools.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$1.62M2021-09-20Seed· $1.5M
2021-08-31Pre Seed· $0.12M
Leadership Team
Anisa Mirza
Founder
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