Avela
Software Engineer - Full Stack (Data/Platform Heavy, Senior Level)
San Francisco or Boston · Senior · Full-time
Work authorization required$150k-$185kDetected 59 days ago
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About the role
- Please see "Location" below for more information.
- Parents can find, apply, register, and pay for school and programs for their children, all from a common application system with saved profiles.
- Avela also powers backend admissions and operational workflows, making it easy for schools, districts, and educational providers to equitably serve students.
Responsibilities
- Be a product engineer - we all care deeply about the product experience and collaborate to build our roadmap and brainstorm ideas.
- Help build how we build - as an early stage startup our processes are constantly evolving to meet our needs. Culture and developer experience take intentional thought and work and everyone is involved.
- Avela Enroll - Online registration, transfers, and enrollment platform with document collection.
Requirements
- Legal ability to work in the US, based in the USA.
- 5+ years of full time experience building data pipelines with a specific emphasis on integrating with external software and systems and APIs
- Extensive experience in data modeling (bonus points for experience in highly configurable data models)
- Previous experience building real time data pipelines including strategies for dynamic data mapping and validation
- Startup or greenfield project experience
- Passion for education, equity, or social impact
- Entrepreneurial spirit and drive
- Growth mindset and desire to constantly improve
- Our primary product is an application and enrollment management system that we sell directly to schools and districts. The system is made up of Avela Apply (application, offers, waitlists), Avela Match (charter lottery, student assignment), and Avela Enroll (registration and advanced form workflows). We also have a stand-alone school finder (Avela Explore), which was one of our first products and is currently being updated to share a backend with the other three products.
- This is a B2B enterprise product, with complex user roles, data permissioning, security/compliance requirements, and more.
- We place an emphasis on equity and accessibility in our product and build all end-user facing tools mobile-first, localized, and WCAG 2.1 AA compliant.
Skills
- Experience with our specific technologies is not required, even for engineering roles, and our stack is constantly evolving.
- GraphQL with Hasura
- AWS Lambda with NodeJS / TypeScript and Go.
- AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code
- AWS CodeBuild and AWS Codepipeline
- AWS Amplify for Front-End
Compensation
- $150,000 - $185,000 a year
Benefits
- We love our team and care about their wellness.
- We strive to offer the best benefits of our peers, including:
- Significant equity
- Flexible work policies
- Unlimited vacation
- Home office stipend or WeWork membership
- Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
- Commuter Benefits
- Life Insurance by Guardian (covered 100%)
- Platinum Medical Plan by UnitedHealthcare (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)
- Platinum Dental Plan by Guardian Health (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)
Company info
- Dig in with our customers - everyone is part of customer success. If a customer is having issues engineering is always there to solve technical issues.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Although we are strongly supportive of immigrants and individuals of all backgrounds, unfortunately, as a small startup, we are not in a position to sponsor visas and are only able to consider candidates who are authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
This listing is sourced directly from Avela's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.