Senior/Staff Front-End Engineer

Abl is on a mission to improve the public education system in the US. They are building a platform that offers advanced, data-driven software and services to help school and district leaders operate more efficiently and identify and remove barriers to equity. 

The Role

We are looking to add a talented Frontend Software Engineer to build, launch, and maintain products and experiences to help our customers improve student outcomes. The role will involve working with others to build new product features from beginning to end, including conception, research, implementation, and maintenance. 

 In this role you will:

• Collaborate across functions to understand user problems in order to ideate, scope solutions, and implement them. 

• Lead projects and coordinate efforts across engineering, product, data science, and customer success teams.

• Improve performance, reliability, and user experience in our products.

• Collaborate with the R&D team to shape our long term product vision. 

• Collaborate with the Engineering team to shape our long term technical vision.

• Proactively define/maintain best practices, mentor other engineers, and lead by example

• Foster inclusive relationships and collaborate cross functionally with Designers, Data Scientists, education experts and other Engineers.

Ideal candidate has:

• Experience architecting, developing, and testing frontend code

• Experience building applications with modern frontend web tooling (we use React, Apollo, Webpack, and more)

• Experience working with large, complex datasets in a frontend application

• Empathy for team members and a passion for diversity and equitable outcomes

• A track record of leading complex technical projects.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to provide in-depth evaluation of multiple technical directions and determine tradeoffs of each

Bonus Points if:

• You are passionate about education and equity

• You have experience with Ruby on Rails (our backend is Rails)

• You have experience driving initiatives at a company level

• You have experience working at a remote tech startup

• B.A/B.S in Computer Science or related field

Note to Candidates: Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they check all the boxes listed in a job description. We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every one of our qualifications described.