SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

ABOUT ALLOVUE

Allovue believes every student deserves access to the resources they need to be successful in school. Our education resource planning software empowers K-12 administrators at every level to allocate resources to best support the needs of their students. We seek people who are creative, funny, humble, flexible, motivated, collaborative, and problem-solvers. We love and respect our team members. We also love silly GIFs.

YOUR ROLE

As a Senior Software Developer at Allovue, you will have the important responsibility to build web applications that enable resources to be allocated equitably to K-12 students. You can contribute to our mission by:

• Prioritizing code readability over eloquence or performance
• Being passionate about learning
• Exercising discipline by writing tests, creating small Pull Requests, avoiding leaky abstractions, and cleaning up after yourself
• Making good choices on your own
• Helping our team improve in a kind, humble, flexible way
• Taking responsibility for delivering changes in an efficient, effective way
• Collaborating with team members in all parts of the company to create the best solutions possible
• Making wise decisions about what existing tools to leverage if any
  
  

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Generate tasks to implement approved product ideas
• Document your pull requests as a communication tool to the team, including providing QA steps for product managers and directing other engineers toward notable changes.
• Provide feedback to your team members on their pull requests.
• Conduct release demos for the company upon delivery of new features to our customers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Enough quality experience developing and maintaining web applications to have reached a senior level
• Experience building and maintaining web applications that have been deployed to a production environment with multiple users
• Maintained a production web application long enough to have suffered from your own bad decisions
• Experience teaching and helping other engineers
• Experience collaborating and planning with multiple types of product stakeholders
• Experience using multiple programming languages, libraries, frameworks, and tools
• Experience writing maintainable, automated tests
• Experience using Git version control system
• Experience having the primary responsibility to deliver large product features

TECH STACK

Knowing our tech stack is not a requirement for being hired. It's certainly nice if you know some parts already, but our primary concern is that you are good at learning and adapting.

Current

• Elixir
• Phoenix Web Framework
• Phoenix Live View
• Alpine.js
• Tailwind CSS
• PostgreSQL
• Github Actions
• Deploy to Render.com
• AWS
  
  

Legacy

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Ember.js
• JSONAPI
• Ansible

BONUS POINTS

• Experience with accounting, HR, or ERP systems
• Experience with K-12 schools
• Experience with our tech stack

Salary Range: $125-$140K

PRODUCT MANAGER

ABOUT ALLOVUE

Allovue believes every student deserves access to the resources they need to be successful in school. Our education resource planning software empowers K–12 administrators at every level to allocate resources to best support the needs of their students. We seek people who are creative, funny, humble, flexible, motivated, collaborative, and problem-solvers. We love and respect our team members. We also love silly GIFs.

YOUR ROLE

Allovue is growing our product team and looking to add skilled leaders who are excited to make a meaningful contribution to software that does good in the world. You’ll work directly with our customers and our analytics data to nail down pain points and use that research to create solutions with our designers and developers. You’ll creatively solve problems while moving us fluidly toward our mid to long-term goals, motivating our team about the product vision. You’ll collaborate and communicate with folks from Design, Development, Customer Success, and Sales to promote our products, train our staff, and evaluate engagement and adoption.

This role will allow your love of budgeting and financial management software to align with your passion for helping K-12 employees and improving education outcomes for all students in the US. As a person with impact, you will have a chance to make a big difference for the administrators supporting our schools, and truly feel good about the things you’ve accomplished at the end of a day. This role reports to the Vice President of Product, and has room for growth and promotion. Allovue practices completely transparent salary bands across our organization to ensure equity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead discovery work internally and externally on major new functionality across our suite of products
• Develop product requirements for new features, including sketches, problem statements, and potential solutions
• Perform manual QA and business acceptance of new features
• Develop product announcements and documentation of new features
• Assist with new user training
• Cross-team feedback and communication on new product functionality
• Maintain feedback backlog, identify true bugs and generate bug reports with replication steps
  
  

• Experience in software development product management
• An excellent ability to communicate with folks from all sorts of technical backgrounds
• A passion for organization of details, information, and processes
• An ability to focus on the small pieces while keeping the big picture in mind
• A deep understanding of web-patterns and how software interactions can vary depending on technical acuity
• An acute ability to understand the stakes and create compromise between groups of folks with different goals and opinions
• A willingness to grab a shovel and pitch in on a small team
• An understanding of the difference between what users ask for, and what they need
• A passion for user-centered design and clean UI/UX
• A high level of Emotional Intelligence and a strong ability to build relationships
• An ability to infuse fun and lead through modeling behavior as well as direct intervention
  
  

BONUS POINTS

• Familiarity with education data including education finance, student achievement, and other school performance measures
• Experience with district or state education department finance and IT systems
• Experience conducting program evaluations and/or cost-benefit analyses
• B2B SAAS experience
• Experience with QA and software testing
• Familiarity with Notion and/or the Shape Up process
• Experience with User interviews and A/B testing
• Experience coding (even HTML, CSS, or JS)
• A skill for having hard conversations while elevating and supporting direct reports
• A true commitment to LEAN principles, and an ability to stretch resources
  
  

Please, even if reading the lists above you feel like you’re missing some or many skills we’ve asked after, we encourage you to apply anyway, especially those applicants from marginalized communities. 

QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTER

ABOUT ALLOVUE

Allovue believes every student deserves access to the resources they need to be successful in school. Our education resource planning software empowers K–12 administrators at every level to allocate resources to best support the needs of their students. We seek people who are creative, funny, humble, flexible, motivated, collaborative, and problem-solvers. We love and respect our team members. We also love silly GIFs.

YOUR ROLE

Allovue is seeking a K-12 Budgeting subject matter expert who would like to become a quality assurance tester reporting to the VP of Product Management. This is an exciting opportunity for your experience and knowledge in education budgeting to make a big impact on the quality and value of our products, helping K-12 Education Finance leaders across the United States focus on making every dollar work for every student. This role will work with our product team to ensure that we are building high-quality software that meets the needs of our customers.  In this role, you will act as a gatekeeper by reviewing “finished” tasks before they are deployed to customers to ensure that they are 100% completed to the standards stipulated by the requirements. 

You will also spend time regression testing to ensure that our product continues to work as it should as we rapidly iterate. Your deep knowledge of K-12 finance practices, experience with excel and complicated budgeting spreadsheets will help us to understand where there are testing gaps, and will help to build test data that thoroughly searches for edge-cases. You will evaluate the user’s experience in our products and raise concerns when better solutions are possible. You will help to determine the severity and priority of bugs, and research bug reports from our customers. You will assist customers in understanding the software by updating documentation as well as help with training where necessary. You will be a primary source of product knowledge at the company and will interface with folks from all departments. Finally, you will lead the effort to establish a strong foundation for quality assurance at Allovue by creating processes that don’t exist (but should) and by improving those we currently use. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take ownership of acceptance testing efforts for Allovue’s software applications, ensuring requirements are met.
• Diagnose problems, report bugs, and recommend usability enhancements to the development team using issue trackers like Github Issues.
• Provide regular status updates and reports on the quality of software development and builds at Allovue.
• Help diagnose and replicate functional issues that have been reported as bugs from our users.
• Help maintain up-to-date documentation as our products evolve.
• Share knowledge and demonstrate product areas to other team members on an ad hoc basis.
• Help to create and document a test methodology and quality assurance procedures, establishing standards for QA at Allovue.
• Identify appropriate test metrics and assist with test data setup to facilitate test runs.
• Work closely with the product team and developers.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in a central office department at one or more K-12 districts in the United States
• Deep comfort in Excel and understanding complicated spreadsheets and how to manipulate them
• A solid foundation of QA methodology, testing techniques, and approaches
• Interest in delivering quality software products in a quick-paced and fluid development environment, learning about the software development lifecycle
• Strong web application technology experience and understanding of common UI patterns
• Collaboration and communication skills for both technical and strategic discussions
• Genuine interest in our product and the problems it solves; Excitement about our mission!
• Ability to work in the United States

BONUS POINTS

• Proficiency with some or all of the following: Technical writing and product documentation; Software development lifecycle and software release cycles; Budgeting processes in K-12 education space; Excel/Sheets and other Microsoft/Google suite apps; Slack and Notion

• Experience testing, building, maintaining, or selling software that services the K-12 space
• Understanding of the budgeting processes at one or more K-12 districts in the US

If reading the lists above you feel like you’re missing some of the skills we’ve listed, we encourage you to apply anyway, especially those applicants from marginalized communities.

Salary Range: $65-$90K

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