Software Engineer

Allovue is looking for engineers that display a love of their craft and are continuing to strive to learn more about programming and building software in general. We don’t stop at helping to facilitate K-12 education; we strongly believe to stop learning is to grow stagnant. We are looking for candidates that are varied in experiences and are generally well-versed in one or more specific areas of practice. Those areas may include:

• front-end development
• back-end development
• data mining
• operations We have services written in R and Ruby: including a Rails API. We use Postgres and Elasticsearch as our persistence layers and Ember.js as the framework we currently use for our client-side application. Some languages we have been evaluating for upcoming services include Clojure, Elixir, and Node.js. We do not expect a candidate to have all of those skills currently, but he/she should be proficient in building web applications at scale.

• Ruby / Rails
• JavaScript/Ember
• R

Data

• PostgreSQL
• Elasticsearch

Infrastructure

• Docker
• AWS
• Ansible, + 5+ years of professional software development

• Comprehensive knowledge of one or more of these languages: o JavaScript o Ruby o Clojure

• Experience with MVC frameworks and paradigms
• Excellent designer of APIs for other developers (and future self!)
• Solid understanding of both unstructured and relational databases
• Collaborative
• Low ego and high pride in your work, + Experience with Hadoop, Storm, or Spark
• Past work with Docker and/or Ansible
• Background in statistics
• Background in UX/HCI/Design
• ERP systems experience
• Well-versed in completing ETL transactions

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., + Competitive salary, commensurate with experience

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee-friendly option plans
• Up to 4% 401K match
• Administration of a 529 plan (education savings account)
• A team of smart, passionate, funny, kind people
• Flexible hours and locations
• Time to recharge with 3 weeks vacation and unlimited personal days