Software Engineer, EdTech APIs & Data Tools (Flexible Hours)

About Allovue Allovue believes every student deserves access to the resources they need to be successful in school. Our education resource planning software empowers K–12 administrators at every level to allocate resources to best support the needs of their students. We seek people who are creative, funny, humble, flexible, motivated, collaborative, and problem-solvers. We love and respect our team members. We also love silly GIFs. Allovue's Current Stack Code Ruby / Rails JavaScript/Ember R Data PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Infrastructure Docker AWS Ansible Your Role Allovue is looking for engineers that display a love of their craft and are continuing to strive to learn more about programming and building software in general. We don't stop at helping to facilitate K–12 education; we strongly believe to stop learning is to grow stagnant. We are looking for candidates that are varied in experiences and are generally well-versed in one or more specific areas of practice. Those areas may include: front-end development back-end development data mining operations We have services written in R and Ruby: including a Rails API. We use Postgres and Elasticsearch as our persistence layers and Ember.js as the framework we currently use for our client-side application. Some languages we have been evaluating for upcoming services include Clojure, Elixir, and Node.js. We do not expect a candidate to have all of those skills currently, but he/she should be proficient in building web applications at scale. Qualifications 5+ years of professional software development Comprehensive knowledge of one or more of these languages: JavaScript Ruby Clojure Experience with MVC frameworks and paradigms Excellent designer of APIs for other developers (and future self!) Solid understanding of both unstructured and relational databases Collaborative Low ego and high pride in your work Bonus Points Experience with Hadoop, Storm, or Spark Past work with Docker and/or Ansible Background in statistics Background in UX/HCI/Design ERP systems experience Well-versed in completing ETL transactions Allovue ROI We appreciate that our team members invest their brilliance, creativity, and general amazingness into growing Allovue and serving our customers - so what will you receive in return? Competitive salary, commensurate with experience Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage Employee-friendly option plans Up to 4% 401K match Administration of a 529 plan (education savings account) A team of smart, passionate, funny, kind people Flexible hours and locations Time to recharge with 3 weeks vacation and unlimited personal days J-18808-Ljbffr