Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zen Educate is a growing company focused on improving education staffing through engineering excellence. They are seeking a Product Engineer to help build their platform, which connects educators and schools efficiently, while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.
Responsibilities
- Valuing real world outcomes and shared learning over output
- Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
- Team success and sustainability over individual heroics
- Build relationships quickly and take ownership of problems end-to-end to help grow a team around you
- Aligning with Product and Ops to clarify what problem we were solving and delivering iterative improvements
- Major overhaul of our permissions system—moving away from hardcoded roles towards something granular and scoped per school, network, and unit
- Wired up audit logging around sensitive actions for proper traceability in production and built out an admin UI for non-engineers to manage roles and permissions
- Creating a foundational configuration for our monorepo to help use AI more effectively when building product and writing code
- Implementing backend and frontend events to better understand how users interact with our product and what we can improve on
- Upgrading our React Native app to the latest Expo SDK, fixing compatibility issues and resolving build and runtime problems
- Improving the anonymisation logic in our internal tool for cloning production databases safely for development and addressing minor vulnerabilities found from monthly red-teaming
Skills
- Engineers who can make an impact on the real world problem of education staffing
- Valuing real world outcomes and shared learning over output
- Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
- Team success and sustainability over individual heroics
- Curiosity, adaptability and proactiveness as fundamental traits
- Ability to build relationships quickly
- Take ownership of problems end-to-end
- Help grow a team around you
- Strong communication skills and async habits
- Ability to shape problems, not just deliver tickets
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, React Native
- Ability to work in a distributed engineering team
- Willingness to invest in long-term growth and learning
Benefits
- Remote (CT/ET Timezone)
- Collaborating with teams on the West Coast and in Europe, alongside building out a new hub in Chicago.
- Choose your own career path.
- Your manager is a partner, not a supervisor.
- Few Titles, infinite Levels.
- Investment over reward as a mindset.
- Distributed engineering team.
- We believe in impact and measurable outcomes, alongside shared learning.
- Balanced, sustainable work.
- Diversity is good in some ways and lacking in others.
- Hire fast, fix fast.
- Regular check-ins during onboarding to make sure expectations match reality.
- Feedback is available upon request after the process.
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