Desired Skills and Experience

  • Provide input to the design and development of products and major components of the Kimono platform, which presently serve millions of students
  • Ensure our products scale and perform consistently and reliably.
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
  • Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
  • Develop and Maintain effective dashboards using our instrumentation tools (New Relic, Librato)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent software engineering and product development experience
  • Highly analytical, detail oriented and ability to work with complex logic
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
  • Experience with Java, Ruby and/ or other scripting language, a plus.
  • Experience with Heroku, AWS and other highly scalable cloud environments.
  • Experience designing and developing highly scalable messaging platforms.
  • Education experience a plus.
  • Competitive salary & retirement benefits
  • 10 paid holidays plus generous paid vacation
  • Full medical & dental
  • HSA program, disability, & life insurance
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Fun, relaxed environment
  • Work with a small, bright, dedicated team

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