Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zen Educate is a company focused on solving education staffing challenges through engineering excellence. The Product Engineer role involves building and iterating on a platform that connects educators with schools, ensuring efficient staffing solutions and improving education outcomes.
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
- Building relationships quickly
- Taking ownership of problems end-to-end
- Helping grow a team around you
- Aligning with Product and Ops to clarify problems and deliver iterative improvements
- Overhauling permissions systems and ensuring proper traceability in production
- Creating foundational configurations for improved product and code development
- Implementing analytics for user interaction insights
- Upgrading the React Native app to latest SDK versions
- Improving anonymisation logic for internal tools and compiling DevEx metrics
- Addressing minor vulnerabilities identified during security assessments
Skills
- Experience in software engineering with a focus on product thinking and problem-solving
- Ability to work collaboratively in a remote team environment
- Strong communication skills to build relationships quickly
- Curiosity, adaptability, and proactiveness
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and React Native
- Ability to take ownership of problems end-to-end
- Experience in delivering iterative improvements and testing value quickly
- Ability to shape problems rather than just deliver tickets
- Experience in a daily shipping culture and willingness to iterate quickly
- Experience with AI technologies and their application in product development
- Familiarity with Heroku and Cloudflare
- Experience in building and managing permissions systems
- Experience with analytics tools like MixPanel
- Experience in upgrading and maintaining mobile applications
Company Overview
Zen Educate is an online platform to connect supply teachers with openings in schools. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.zeneducate.com.
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