Remote Sr Engineer Passionate About Social Impact

Background

Readlee was created by a team of educators, developers, and entrepreneurs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. It launched in Spring 2020, immediately gained traction, and won the Harvard Social Impact Award. More importantly, teachers and students reported that Readlee improved reading outcomes and was their favorite tool during distance learning. The software leverages the latest in speech AI, listens to students read aloud and provides feedback. The team is growing quickly and seeks candidates passionate about impact in education and generating beautiful full-stack work.

Job Description

As a senior engineer you will have direct responsibility for bringing to life the various mock-up, wireframes, and designs from the product roadmap. You will work closely with our Cofounders, Lead engineer, and junior engineers to build a transformative EdTech technology while helping drive priorities on the team.

We are looking for someone that’s built and shipped more than one SaaS product, is comfortable with cloud backends (we use Firebase, but experience with other platforms is welcome), is an effective communicator/team player and has a knack for creating beautiful UI independently and with speed.

Who You Are:

• Passionate about educating children.
• A talented engineer.
• A developer with a demonstrated ability to create beautiful looking user interfaces.
• A person that is willing to adapt, constantly communicate and remain positive.
• Someone with an eye for seeing where and when technical decisions improve our product roadmaps.
• A leader with emotional intelligence and maturity to work with a set of highly capable colleagues while also genuinely interested in and engaged with the broader engineering team at all levels. You bring out the best in your team.
• A thoughtful and artful communicator within your engineering teams and across the broader organization.
• Able to organize complex deliverables into actionable projects
• Someone with enormous drive to build the best product.

As a successful senior software enginee you will:

• Provide decisive and effective technical leadership for software development efforts.
• Leverage past experience and strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with the team.
• Oversee estimation and execution of project work plans. Direct revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Ensure information flow in teams as appropriate to facilitate workflow, reduce cycle time and deliver high quality.
• Drive development to consistently improve cycle time and time to deployment. Accountable for completion of product / software development to meet market windows of opportunity.
• Minimize schedule and technical risk by foreseeing and addressing obstacles proactively and aggressively.
• Participate in the development process by identifying potential weak points. Lead solutions development using technical judgment, input from experts and the involvement of other systems development partners as appropriate.

Software Engineering Leadership

In cooperation with product management, prioritize and manage all engineering efforts related to Applications products. This includes smaller projects and post-release continuation efforts.
Work with product managers and engineering project managers to develop and maintain requirements / feature backlogs.
Clearly and consistently communicate product vision to the engineering organization. Guide the engineering organization's efforts to achieve this vision.

We Require:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other relevant engineering field, 5+ years’ project and software development management experience.
• High level of familiarity with React (JavaScript/Typescript).
• Demonstrated success in effectively communicating at all levels of an organization.
• Ability to lead through influence rather than direct authoratatively.
• Demonstrated successful time management and organization skills.
• Ability to manage and work with a culturally diverse population.
• Ability to work well and productively, always projecting a positive outlook in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated time management, decision-making, presentation and organization skills.
• A passion for the mission of improving literacy outcomes for all readers.
• Excellent sense for design and UI.

We Prefer:

• Master’s degree in computer science, other relevant engineering fields or business.
• 10+ years’ experience leading software development organizations.
• Strong background with requirements management.
• Powerful problem-solving, risk assessment and negotiation skills.
• Experience leading development of complex software architectures and platforms.
• Experience leading and managing development activity for enterprise level applications.
• Strong situational leadership instincts and abilities.

• Technical experience: software product development, enterprise application development, development of customizable software architectures.

• Salary and Benefits:

• $90,000-$120,00 per year depending on skill set, fit, equity.

• Equity in the company, based on skill-set and fit.

• Flexible PTO.

• Great team time/collaborative environment.

• The freedom to lead on various parts of the project and set your own goals/schedule.

• The opportunity to work in the growing EdTech industry despite a shrinking economy.

• Location: Our team was founded at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2020. The company is based in Cambridge. However, due to COVID-19, we operate remotely in Massachusetts, California, Indiana, and Arizona. We are flexible with time-zones and have/are committed to developing strong relationships despite working remotely.

What You’ll Love:

Our Team: Cofounders Steve Askar and Drew Madson have a lot of fun, care immensely about making a difference for kids, and work hard to support team members in reaching their goals. In addition to Drew and Steve, Readlee boasts a robust 4-person dev team, 20-person content creation team, an amazing designer, expert product manager, an incredible CFO, and a world-class advisery board. Simply put - we have an AMAZING team.

Our Mission: Readlee will fundamentally change literacy instruction in the United States and the world. Once you see why teachers and students are so excited about the product you will also want to make a difference through product development.

Seniority Level
Senior level

Industry
Information Technology & Services

Employment Type
Full-time