Senior Elixir Developer

 ABOUT ALLOVUE

 



 Allovue believes every student deserves access to the resources they need to be successful in school. Our education resource planning software empowers K-12 administrators at every level to allocate resources to best support the needs of their students. We seek people who are creative, funny, humble, flexible, motivated, collaborative, and problem-solvers. We love and respect our team members. We also love silly GIFs.
 

 



 We are only accepting applicants from the U.S.
 

 



 YOUR ROLE

 



 As a Senior Software (Elixir) Developer at Allovue, you will have the important responsibility to build web applications that enable resources to be allocated equitably to K-12 students. You can contribute to our mission by:


 
Prioritizing code readability over eloquence or performance
 
Being passionate about learning
 
Exercising discipline by writing tests, creating small Pull Requests, avoiding leaky abstractions, and cleaning up after yourself
 
Making good choices on your own
 
Helping our team improve in a kind, humble, flexible way
 
Taking responsibility for delivering large changes in an efficient, effective way
 
Collaborating with team members in all parts of the company to create the best solutions possible
 
Making wise decisions about what existing tools to leverage, if any


 RESPONSIBILITIES


 
Generate tasks to implement approved product ideas
 
Document your pull requests as a communication tool to the team, including providing QA steps for product managers and directing other engineers toward notable changes.
 
Provide feedback to your team members on their pull requests, including code quality changes as well as comments and responses for the rest of the team to learn from.
 
“Leave it better than you found it” – proactively refactor complex code, add documentation, and/or improve test coverage as you work in a part of our codebase.
 
Contribute to our “Techy Talk Tuesdays” to spread best practices and technical knowledge


 QUALIFICATIONS


 
Significant experience developing and maintaining web applications
 
Relational Database/SQL expertise
 
Maintained a production web application long enough to have suffered from your own bad decisions
 
Experience teaching and helping other engineers
 
Experience collaborating and planning with multiple types of product stakeholders
 
Experience using multiple programming languages, libraries, frameworks, and tools
 
Experience writing maintainable, automated tests
 
Experience using Git version control system
 
Experience having the primary responsibility to deliver large product features
 
Experience modeling domain data to support current and anticipated functionality
 
Experience investigating performance “hot spots” to determine root causes of slow performance, develop a plan for remediation, and execute on that plan.


 TECH STACK


 
Elixir
 
Phoenix Live View
 
Tailwind CSS
 
PostgreSQL


 

 While professional experience with Elixir is not required, we are looking for someone with hands-on experience with the language. This might include a personal side project, working through Advent of Code, or some other exercises with Elixir to explore the language.
 

 



 BONUS POINTS


 
Experience with accounting, HR, or ERP systems
 
Experience with K-12 schools
 
Teacher who has switched careers


 Salary Range: $118-144K