Reports to: Deputy Director of Data Systems
Salary: Competitive and commensurate with experience
Location: New Haven, CT with some travelOverview:
The RISE Network’s mission is to ensure all high school students graduate with a plan and the skills and confidence to achieve college and career success. Founded in 2016, RISE partners with public high schools to lead networks where communities work together to use data to learn and improve. Through its core and most comprehensive network, RISE partners with nine high schools and eight districts, serving over 13,000 students in historically marginalized communities.
RISE high schools work together to ensure all students experience success as they transition to, through, and beyond high school by using data to pinpoint needs, form hypotheses, and pursue ideas to advance student achievement. Partner schools have improved Grade 9 promotion rates by nearly 20 percentage points, while also decreasing subgroup gaps and increasing schoolwide graduation and college access rates. In 2021, the RISE Network was honored to receive the Carnegie Foundation’s annual Spotlight on Quality in Continuous Improvement recognition. Increasingly, RISE is pursuing opportunities to scale its impact through research publications, consulting partnerships, professional development experiences, and other avenues to drive excellent student outcomes.
Position Summary and Essential Job Functions:
The RISE Web Developer will play an integral role in advancing the Network’s ability to empower educators with easily accessible and highly impactful insight into student progress. As a maturing network, RISE is building its own suite of applications and we are looking for a talented and highly motivated individual to collaboratively design, build, and improve those software services. This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who thrives in an entrepreneurial environment, and is passionate about closing achievement gaps and developing the potential of all students regardless of life circumstance.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Web Development
Design and write code for web applications using Vue that scale to high-volume production quality
Develop and test code to ensure strong usability, optimization, and functionality across multiple browsers and platforms
Support the integration of new variables into document databases and data tools
Champion good habits (e.g., clear and consistent documentation, security, tech debt balance, test driven development) within the team; improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Debug production issues across multiple levels of the stack
Find and address performance issues throughout the application
Perform thorough code reviews and troubleshoot complex issues
Web Design
Develop, modify, and/or test layouts, interfaces, functionality, and navigation menus to ensure an attractive, engaging, and functional experience across browsers or devices
Contributes to the design group's efforts to enhance the look and feel of the organization's online offerings
Use SASS and CSS to provide consistent and flexible styling and theming across multiple tools and clients
Produce UX/UI solutions both within a team setting and autonomously
Design responsive websites using industry-standard design tools
Maintain visual style and branding guide use for the RISE data tools
Platform Design
Collaboratively design software services
Work with engineering and product managers to understand roadmap priorities
Contribute to the architecture and design of a new web based platform
Client service mentality, adaptability and willingness to help uses of RISE data tools
Integrate user training into platform design
Proficient in Vue, React, or Angular and modern Javascript
Proficient in SASS and CSS
Automated unit and end-to-end testing (e.g. Jest, Cypress)
Firebase Auth, Google Sign-in, or other user authentication and authorization systems
NoSQL data modeling for document databases (e.g. Firestore, MongoDB)
Proficiency with Git or other version control systems
Outstanding interpersonal skills and teamwork
Commitment to systems-driven solutions for scalable and sustained impact
Strong organizational and project management skills
Strong belief that all students can learn and achieve at high levels
Ability to ramp up on new content and work in an independent and self-motivated manner
Desire to work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and results-driven environment
Sense of humor, positive attitude, and willingness to work in a collaborative environment
Preferred Knowledge and Skills:
Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (Google Cloud, AWS)
Package management leadership experience with npm and Webpack
Experience with Agile software development
Required Education and Experience:
At least 4 years of experience developing and deploying web tools to a production environment
At least 2 years of experience using relational or document databases
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field required
Minimum of four years of relevant professional experience
RISE is an Equal Opportunity Employer.