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Description

• Ignite Reading delivers one-to-one virtual tutoring that teaches every student the foundational skills they need to become a confident, fluent reader. • We pair students who need extra support with expert reading tutors. • Ignite Reading is a mission-driven public benefit corporation aiming to solve America’s education crisis. • Reporting to the Lead Software Engineer, this role leads software development projects for scaling tutoring services. • Focus areas include tutoring logistics, tutor workflow, extended learning applications, and AI/ML implementations.

Requirements

• 3+ years of pragmatic, real-world experience as a software engineer. • In-depth understanding of modern web development technologies, OOP languages, and relational databases. • Product focused. You utilize product management methodologies and have the ability to understand the needs of our users and translate those needs into prioritized product features. • Quality focused. You maintain high standards of code and lead thoughtful application design to ensure platform performance, uptime, and scale, and have excellent debugging and optimization skills. • An orientation to collaboration. Excited to work as part of a cross-functional agile team. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Exceptional organizational, project management and time management skills. • Experience at early stage startups is a plus. • Ability to be self-managing and flexible while working in a remote environment. • Ability to roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the job done while balancing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands in a fast-paced startup environment.

Benefits

• We believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace environment. • We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer where all applicants are considered for employment without attention to color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. • We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested!