Senior Software Engineer

About ChalkTalk

At ChalkTalk, we believe that education is human. It's more than scores and statistics. Be part of a team that's transforming education and achieving up to 6x improvement in student learning outcomes. 

ChalkTalk uses student assessments to generate digital courseware for every day in the course schedule. Every modular ChalkTalk lesson comes with teaching materials for the teacher; small group work and computer-adaptive practice for students; and progress reports for administrators. ChalkTalk is delivering improvement in student learning outcomes up to 6x, as measured by third-party test scores. It is currently used to power high school literacy and numeracy instruction district-wide at some of the largest US districts - including 8 of the largest 100. ChalkTalk currently has 40 employees.

Job Overview

At ChalkTalk, we’re not just looking for task doers—we’re looking for builders and leaders. We need a natural problem-solver and collaborator to join our team and play a pivotal role in designing and scaling the architecture needed to support a 10x increase in our user base.

As a Senior Engineer, you will join our high-performing Engagineers team, which focuses on customer activation and reporting. In this role, on top of working closely with the greater engineering team, you’ll partner closely with our Implementation Team, which ensures our customers—educators and students—have exceptional experiences. Together, we’re driven by a shared passion: improving outcomes for students and empowering teachers with innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering and product team to turn product vision into reality
• Full-stack web app development
• Solve real customer problems
• Ship quality code aggressively
• Design the architecture and conduct design reviews
• Follow and raise the bar on best practices of testing, logging, monitoring and CI/CD

Why work at ChalkTalk?

• Mission: You want to help provide the best education possible to everyone on the planet.
• Impact: In just 15 weeks, districts that bought ChalkTalk saw their students experience 2–6X MORE GROWTH ON OFFICIAL STATE TESTS compared to their peers who received 52 weeks of traditional classroom instruction. Big impact with vulnerable student populations.
• Growth: Company has consistently grown, increasing revenue by double or more each year since 2019 and has 10 the largest 100 school districts in the US as customers.
• Awards:

1. 2020: Top 10 finalist out of 700+ companies at ASU+GSV Cup.
2. 2021: Winner of FETC’s Best in EdTech alongside Microsoft & Lego.
3. 2022: Winner of EdTech Week’s EdTech Cup in NYC.
4. 2023: “North America EdTech 200” by HolonIQ.
5. 2024: “The World’s Top EdTech Companies” by TIME Magazine & Statista

• Accelerators: AWS EdStart, OnRamp Education Accelerator, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) NYC
• Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance. 14 days PTO and 14 sick days.