Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Staff Software Engineer, Education

Remote Redwood City, CA
USD 214k - 321k
R Ruby React TypeScript Java Kotlin Machine Learning Python
Description

Founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is a new kind of philanthropy that’s leveraging technology to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges – from eradicating disease, to improving education. Across our core initiatives of Science and Education, we’re pairing engineering with grantmaking, impact investing, policy work, and advocacy, to progress in our mission of building an inclusive, just and healthy future for everyone.

Our Values

We believe we can help build a future for everyone.

  • We aim to be daring, but humble:  We look for bold ideas — regardless of structure and stage — and help them scale by pairing engineers with subject matter experts to build tools that accelerate the pace of social progress.
  • We want to learn fast, but build for the long-term: We want to iterate fast and help bring new solutions to the table, but we also realize that important breakthroughs often take decades, or even centuries.
  • Stay close to the real problems: We engage directly in the communities we serve because no one understands our society’s challenges like those who live them every day.  

Our success is dependent on building teams that include people from different backgrounds and experiences who can challenge each other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we look for a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized groups — women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming, first and second generation immigrants, veterans, and people from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

CZI also supports multiple work options. Learn more about our philosophy and approach here.

The Opportunity

CZI Education’s Learning Platform group develops tools and platform experiences that save teachers’ time and enables personalized learning for students. The team’s culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making. 

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with an interest in helping to lead our engineering organization through our next forward-look architecture and to help establish best practices for our existing infrastructure. We are moving rapidly to an environment of quick iteration and testing and need your guidance to ensure we learn the right things along the way with the right level of engineering investment. You'll collaborate closely with your colleagues in Engineering, Product Management, Data & Applied Science, and Product Design. This is a role that combines technical strength, product focus, and empathy for our customers.

You will

  • Drive engineering efforts to solve complex testing problems by designing and developing scalable test automation and frameworks
  • Create prototypes and work with cross-functional partners for new innovative automation methodologies and technologies
  • Establish robust and repeatable design and process patterns to provide structure for our engineers
  • Drive work and culture of automation quality focusing on high quality results and signal through a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline
  • Mentor other engineers
  • Enable and drive the product engineering teams to build automation at scale
  • Be the advocate for testability and drive best engineering practices

You have

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field; or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience. 
  • 7+ years of relevant coding experience in one or more high-level languages (Java, C#, C++, Kotlin, etc) and one or more languages for data analysis and machine learning, such as Python or R. Bonus points for experience in frontend development using tools such as Ruby-on-Rails, React, or TypeScript.    
  • Experience designing software architectures for scalability, reliability and performance.
  • Interest and preferably experience in building modern user interfaces, data science, machine learning, or recommendation systems.
  • Experience with the Scrum methodology (or similar alternatives) for agile software development.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
  • A strong sense of curiosity and willingness to learn quickly, building knowledge and skills that this role requires.

Our work in education is aimed at ensuring that every student — not just a lucky few — can get an education that’s tailored to their individual needs and supports every aspect of their development. We’re pairing engineering with grantmaking, impact investing, policy, and advocacy work to help every young person enter adulthood with the skills and abilities they need to reach their full potential — and equip every teacher with the tools and research they need to help students get there. An example of the work CZI's education team supports include the Summit Learning Program, a personalized approach to teaching and learning that enhances the quality of student-teacher interactions and empowers educators to tailor instruction to individual student needs.

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The Redwood City, CA base pay range for this role is $214,000-$321,000. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on job-related skills and experience, as evaluated throughout the interview process. Pay ranges outside Redwood City are adjusted based on cost of labor in each respective geographical market. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process. 
CZI is committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. If you’re interested in this role but your previous experience doesn’t perfectly align with each qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect fit for this or another role!
CZI believes that vaccines are one of the most powerful tools to fight COVID-19 and save lives. It aligns to our mission and work to cure, manage, and prevent disease. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be required for all employees (with the exception of reasonable accommodations due to medical or religious beliefs). All visitors coming onsite to a CZI facility are required to show proof of COVID vaccination or take an onsite COVID test. 

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