Are you a seasoned engineer who feels like your current job isn’t serving a larger purpose? Would you rather make a meaningful, life-changing difference for millions of students?

Digication is changing the way students learn from the ground up. Instead of rote learning through lectures and tests, Digication allows students to create online portfolios – collaborative and safe learning spaces – to encourage project based learning. The results have been staggering. According to a recent research, retention and pass rate at a community college jumped from 50% to 80%. Digication is now being used by students at over 5,000 colleges and high schools.

Position:Backend Engineer

Tech stack & stats

• We use many different technologies (we’re open minded and consider what’s best for each job).

• Browser-based interface built around internal services

• Languages: Nodejs, PHP, Ruby (Rails/Sinatra)

• Database: MySQL (RDS), MongoDB

• Server: AWS, Ubuntu, nginx, haproxy, chef

• Digication is a profitable SaaS company serving millions of requests per day to millions of users

• 5,000+ schools use Digication as a mission-critical tool every day

Company culture

• You’ll work in a team, with direct access to company founders

• You find it valuable to to talk to customers

• You like to test your code

• You like to be a mentor and mentee to your peers

• You work with a sense of urgency, but you don’t like cutting corners

• You are self motivated and passionate about learning

• You hold yourself accountable for your work and commitments

How will this be different from most other engineering jobs:

• You will work on something that makes a meaningful difference in many students’ lives

• You value integrity over profitability (Although we are profitable!)

• You value personal growth and learning over titles and salaries

• You are creative and different, and you’re proud of it