Backend Django Software Engineer

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial situations, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others.

We're looking for a highly experienced Django back-end engineer who will write high-quality code, make sound and scalable architectural decisions, and help grow our team by bringing and evangelizing best practices.

Presently, we're only looking for US-based engineers that live in Central or Eastern Timezone. We do not have the ability to sponsor H1-B Visas.
Additionally, please note this role is for highly experienced software engineers with deep Django and Django Rest Framework (DRF) experience.

What you'll do:

• Ship clean, readable, and maintainable backend Django code
• Contribute and proactively elevate the quality of our codebase by writing tests and addressing technical debt
• You'll be working with a talented team of engineers, designers, and product people who have shipped 50+ features in the last 3 years and have established SchooLinks as a company that has found product-market fit and transitioned us into a hyper-growth phase.
• Participate in the product development process from start to finish, reviewing requirements and user stories to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Design and build solutions that will scale to millions of users
• Participate in on-call rotations

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, fina...

• 5+ years of Django and Dango Rest Framework experience
• 3 + years of experience working with AWS
• 3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production
• Experience building, supporting, and planning production
• Experience with asynchronous task management

Nice to have -- experience with the following technology that we use regularly:

• Celery
• Redis
• React.js

Domain experience/interest in the following areas is a bonus:

• ETL and data integration with third-party systems such as Student Information Systems
• Educational data
• Workforce development and career exploration
• Predictive analytics around educational outcomes

We may consider exceptional candidates that have slightly less experience, but this is not a role for junior engineers.

Interview Process

1. Video Screening - A 15 min video-based interview focused around your background and technical experience and knowledge.

2. Live Coding Challenge - A hour interview where you will complete a coding assignment with one of our Staff Engineers of Engineering Manager

3. Live Planning Challenge - A non-coding hour and half interview where you will create technical specifications/ planning documentation for a set of requirements and designs provided.

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial situations, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others.

We're looking for a highly experienced Django back-end engineer who will write high-quality code, make sound and scalable architectural decisions, and help grow our team by bringing and evangelizing best practices.

Presently, we're only looking for US-based engineers that live in Central or Eastern Timezone. We do not have the ability to sponsor H1-B Visas.
Additionally, please note this role is for highly experienced software engineers with deep Django and Django Rest Framework (DRF) experience.

What you'll do:

• Ship clean, readable, and maintainable backend Django code
• Contribute and proactively elevate the quality of our codebase by writing tests and addressing technical debt
• You'll be working with a talented team of engineers, designers, and product people who have shipped 50+ features in the last 3 years and have established SchooLinks as a company that has found product-market fit and transitioned us into a hyper-growth phase.
• Participate in the product development process from start to finish, reviewing requirements and user stories to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Design and build solutions that will scale to millions of users
• Participate in on-call rotations

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, fina...

• 5+ years of Django and Dango Rest Framework experience
• 3 + years of experience working with AWS
• 3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production
• Experience building, supporting, and planning production
• Experience with asynchronous task management

Nice to have -- experience with the following technology that we use regularly:

• Celery
• Redis
• React.js

Domain experience/interest in the following areas is a bonus:

• ETL and data integration with third-party systems such as Student Information Systems
• Educational data
• Workforce development and career exploration
• Predictive analytics around educational outcomes

We may consider exceptional candidates that have slightly less experience, but this is not a role for junior engineers.

Interview Process

1. Video Screening - A 15 min video-based interview focused around your background and technical experience and knowledge.

2. Live Coding Challenge - A hour interview where you will complete a coding assignment with one of our Staff Engineers of Engineering Manager

3. Live Planning Challenge - A non-coding hour and half interview where you will create technical specifications/ planning documentation for a set of requirements and designs provided.