{"id":17322,"date":"2015-12-07T09:28:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=17322"},"modified":"2015-12-07T09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:28:37","slug":"job-senior-engineer-kinvolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2015\/12\/07\/job-senior-engineer-kinvolved\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB] Senior Engineer, Kinvolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Senior Engineer at Kinvolved<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>*Must be based in\/near NYC.*<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Kinvolved, an education technology startup located in NYC, is seeking a Senior Engineer <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are seeking someone who wants to change the state of education through the use of technology and to join and build an early stage startup to change the world.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re a socially minded startup with big dreams to do good by tech in the education sector. Our web and mobile apps support communication between schools and families, building community to support academic achievement. You can learn more at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinvolved.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.kinvolved.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Primary responsibilities: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continue development on our architecture, technology stack, and platform, leveraging the fully functional product<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rapidly iterate with the Kinvolved team on product direction based on customer needs, communicate engineering status, and resolve and implement changes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Qualities\/experience needed: <\/b><b>Our application is in Angular, uses Rails as an API, on PostgreSQL.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience scaling the growth of web and mobile technology<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SQL, Ruby, Ruby On Rails<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angular.js<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience developing an API<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience with security &amp; hosting using Amazon Web Services or comparable product<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exposure to an agile development process<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience managing small teams, and understanding both product and business objectives<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Pluses:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working knowledge of Ionic or other Cordova comparable technologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working knowledge of other client side frameworks like Backbone, Ember, React, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experience with deployment systems like Capistrano<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Salary\/compensation<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compensation is cash, with equity options available<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health insurance options <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Startup working environment, office at Teach For America\u2019s brand new HQ at 25 Broadway<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dedicated, passionate team, driven to ensure success of Kinvolved across the country <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>To Apply: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please contact Zvia at zvia@kinvolved.com with interest.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email Zvia your resume, links to your online presence if applicable (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.), and abstracts or other deliverables relevant to your experience in managing data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining our growing team gives you an opportunity to positively impact the lives of thousands of students and hundreds of schools in underserved communities across our country. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-founders, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=129803688&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=FH5B&amp;locale=en_US&amp;trk=tyah2&amp;trkInfo=tarId%3A1420556177666%2Ctas%3Amiriam%2Cidx%3A1-1-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miriam Altman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexandrameis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Meis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, started <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinvolved.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kinvolved<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2012 while they were graduate students at NYU. They were recently named to the 2015 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/30under30\/#\/education\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forbes\u2019 30 Under 30 list<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a group of the most influential leaders in education today. Meet the rest of our team <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinvolved.com\/about\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Read, watch, and learn more about us below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">July 2015 in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SoSZXIGgI6U\"><b>Teach For America\u2019s coverage on their Social Innovation Award<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">June 2015 in the <\/span><b>NYPost<\/b><b> and on <\/b><b>ABC7<\/b><b>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">January 2015 on<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/30under30\/#\/education\"><b>Forbes 30 Under 30<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">November 2014 on <\/span><b>FOX News <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/3911176190001\/kinvolved-app-aims-to-improve-school-attendance\/#sp=show-clips\"><b>\u201cKinvolved\u201d App Aims to Improve Student Attendance<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Engineer at Kinvolved *Must be based in\/near NYC.* &nbsp; Kinvolved, an education technology startup located in NYC, is seeking a Senior Engineer We are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}