What are the responsibilities and job description for the Backend Developer position at Classlink?
Company Description
Founded in 1998, ClassLink’s mission is to empower educators to improve learning through innovative systems and services. Engineered for students and teachers, ClassLink’s products are simple to use yet empower student achievement, while lowering the overall cost of technology.
Headquartered in Clifton, NJ, ClassLink is a leading education technology company serving schools. Our software connects teachers and students within their classroom, their curriculum and each other in richer, more powerful ways across any device including smartphones, tablets and laptops. We offer an employee friendly, collaborative environment where we do everything possible to help our team succeed.
We are a team of passionate people striving to help improve classroom learning.
We do this by making and delivering great products.
We also like to have fun along the way.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
ClassLink — The future of instructional technology.
Job Description
- Build and write effective APIs and Applications that support the digital services ClassLink delivers
- Use unit and integration testing to ensure systems meet business needs
- Ship software that impacts the lives of millions of Americans
- Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
- Design client-side and server-side architecture
- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Create security and data protection settings
- Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
- Write technical documentation
- Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
Qualifications
- Understanding of the fundamental technologies of the web: HTTP, SSL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON
- Strong understanding and experience with the S.E.A.N. stack - SQL, Express, Angular, Node.js
- Experience in database performance tuning, query optimization and monitoring of MySQL databases is required.
- Minimum 3 years of experience developing consumer-facing web applications, services, and APIs
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, in particular EC2, S3, and RDS a plus
- Experience and understanding of agile methodologies
- Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
We are a team of passionate people striving to help improve classroom learning.
We do this by making and delivering great products.
We also like to have fun along the way.
Please use this link to apply:
https://classlink.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=73