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**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