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Founding Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience team
ClassDojo · San Francisco, California, United States
$172k–250k
42 days ago
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ClassDojo · San Francisco, California, United States
$240k–280k
71 days ago
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Founding Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience team
ClassDojo · San Francisco, California, United States
Pay
$172k–250k
Setting
Remote
ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.
We started by building a powerful network for communication. ClassDojo’s flagship app is the #1 communication app connecting K-12 teachers, children, and families globally. Teachers use it to share what’s happening throughout the day through photos, videos, and messages that make parents feel like they’re there. It’s actively used in over 95% of US schools, reaching over 45 million children in 180 countries, with a team of just around 200 people [1]. We are now beginning to use this network to give kids the best learning experiences in the world, far beyond those a standard school can provide.
We hire for talent density. Our team comprises the most talented, entrepreneurial, and innovative teammates from around the world, with experience in education and large scale consumer internet companies, including Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Y Combinator, and more. We’re building a company where the most talented people want to work. We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here—and you’ll pioneer the future of education, too.
About the Role:
Every feature ClassDojo ships begins with an engineer. Every minute an engineer spends waiting on builds, troubleshooting local environments, repeating manual workflows, or navigating unnecessary complexity is a minute they aren't building magical experiences for children, teachers, and families. Developer Experience Engineering exists to remove that friction.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience, you'll build the tools, workflows, and AI-powered developer experiences that make every engineer at ClassDojo more effective.
This is a unique opportunity to join a newly formed Developer Experience Engineering team and help define what great developer experience looks like at ClassDojo. Rather than inheriting a mature platform, you'll help shape its foundations—partnering closely with engineers across the company to identify opportunities, build high-leverage solutions, and establish trusted paved paths that make shipping software faster, safer, and more enjoyable.
We're looking for someone who combines exceptional software engineering with product thinking. You'll treat engineers as customers, build products they'll genuinely enjoy using, and focus relentlessly on creating leverage across the engineering organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Build products for engineers: Design and build internal platforms, tooling, and developer workflows that improve the experience of developing, testing, reviewing, deploying, and operating software.
- Multiply engineering productivity: Identify opportunities where thoughtful platform investments create outsized impact across the engineering organization. Continuously reduce developer friction while improving engineering velocity, quality, and reliability.
- Help shape AI-native software development: Build practical AI-powered workflows that help engineers write, review, test, and ship software more effectively. Evaluate emerging technologies thoughtfully and help establish patterns that improve outcomes while maintaining security, reliability, and engineering quality.
- Partner deeply across engineering: Work closely with product engineering, infrastructure, security, and technical leaders to understand pain points, prioritize opportunities, and build platform capabilities that solve real problems.
- Create trusted paved paths: Build reusable tools, automation, documentation, and self-service capabilities that become the preferred way engineers work because they're intuitive, reliable, and genuinely useful.
- Measure impact: Use engineering metrics, developer feedback, and adoption data to continuously improve the developer experience. Focus on meaningful outcomes rather than activity metrics.
- Help build Developer Experience Engineering: As an early member of the team, contribute to technical direction, engineering standards, and the long-term evolution of Developer Experience Engineering at ClassDojo.
You’ll Be A Match If You:
- Have extensive experience (7-10+ years) building production software in modern engineering organizations.
- Enjoy solving organization-wide engineering problems rather than only product-specific challenges.
- Think like a product engineer even when building internal platforms.
- Demonstrate strong technical judgment and know when to build, simplify, automate, or adopt existing solutions.
- Thrive in ambiguity and are excited by the opportunity to help build a new Platform Engineering team.
- Build trust through partnership and influence rather than organizational authority.
- Care deeply about engineering craftsmanship, maintainability, and long-term platform health.
- Approach AI as a practical tool for improving engineering effectiveness rather than an end in itself.
- Measure success through the impact your work has on other engineers.
Nice to Have Experiences:
- Developer Experience or Platform Engineering teams.
- Internal developer platforms or engineering productivity initiatives.
- CI/CD, release engineering, developer environments, or software delivery systems.
- AI-assisted software development or developer tooling.
- Engineering productivity measurement frameworks such as DORA or SPACE.
- High-growth engineering organizations where platform investments had organization-wide impact.
Developer Experience Engineering is a force multiplier for the entire organization.
Every improvement you make has the potential to help engineers build better software, move faster with greater confidence, and spend more of their time focused on creating meaningful experiences for children, teachers, and families.
If you're energized by solving hard technical problems, building products for engineers, and creating systems that make everyone around you more effective, we'd love to meet you.
[1] Some more context:
(If you are on LinkedIn, you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply, you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks)
- How ClassDojo Connects Parents, Students, and Teachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XBnlzHpXTQ
- “Whats New on ClassDojo 2023 https://youtu.be/O8Tora5T7O4”
- TechCrunch Article: Second Act comes with First Profits https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/classdojos-second-act-comes-with-first-profits/
Click here https://www.classdojo.com/press/ if you're interested in learning more about what we've been up to.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):
- CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $171,500 - $250,000 (USD)
- All other states in the US: $146,000 - $215,000 (USD)
#LI-Remote
Listed by ClassDojo for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
Engineering Leader, Platform Engineering
ClassDojo · San Francisco, California, United States
Pay
$240k–280k
Setting
Remote
ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.
We started by building a communication network that connects teachers, children, and families. Today, ClassDojo is used in the vast majority of U.S. schools and reaches tens of millions of children and families globally. We're now expanding beyond communication into building the best possible learning experiences for kids everywhere.
We're a small, high-talent-density team with experience from leading technology companies. We value ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making, and we aim to create an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.
We're hiring an Engineering Leader to own ClassDojo's Platform engineering org end-to-end for infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling.
As the Engineering Lead for Platform, you'll manage the engineering managers across these teams as well as perform the EM role for teams when needed. You’ll work with our product engineering areas as your customers, set platform engineering practices and quality, and make the build-vs-buy and architecture trade-offs that shape how every engineer at ClassDojo ships.
This is a manager-of-managers role with real architectural and strategic ownership. You'll have 2 to 4 engineering managers reporting in, and your work multiplies across the entire engineering org. You will be expected to set direction, not just execute on it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Lead a multi-team Platform org
- Own Platform's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them.
- Translate company priorities and product-engineering needs into a platform roadmap, in a way that flows both up and down.
- Be responsible for build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across infrastructure, data, developer experience, and AI tooling; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against the needs of your customers.
- Represent Platform and collaborate with cross-functional leadership partners and in engineering-wide leadership conversations.
Develop the engineering managers reporting to you
- Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support.
- Drive AI-native development in line with ClassDojo’s engineering practices (flow-based delivery, vertical slicing, WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability)
- Address performance issues early and clearly; develop managers out of "fine" performance into great performance.
- Be directive when our values, quality bar, or ways of working are at stake.
Run platform towards the long term
- Treat the product engineering areas as customers: understand their needs, measure adoption and satisfaction, and prioritize accordingly.
- Build paved roads and golden paths that teams want to use; earn adoption rather than mandating it.
- Take accountability for SLAs/SLOs and incident response across the platform surface.
- Make tech-debt and reliability trade-offs on purpose, not by accident.
Drive technical excellence across the platform
- Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions across infrastructure, data, DevEx, and AI tooling; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready.
- Make build-vs-buy calls deliberately; avoid both not-invented-here and unmanaged sprawl.
Partner cross-functionally
- Co-own the platform roadmap and quality bar with the product engineering leads who depend on you.
- Partner with Security, Ops, Data, and other functions as the platform requires.
- Build pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly as platform capabilities mature.
YOU WILL BE A MATCH IF YOU…
- 2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers.
- 10+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on.
- Have owned a platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-productivity area and delivered a measurable outcome (throughput, reliability, cost, or operational safety).
- Have built or evolved platform engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one, and earned adoption.
- Have hired, developed, and managed engineering managers.
- Comfortable making and defending build-vs-buy and architecture-level trade-offs across the platform surface; can still reason about code with taste.
- Embrace Candor > Harmony: give the hard message early, comfortable with disagreement.
- Use LLM-based tools daily and push your teams to adopt them.
- Are an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly in writing.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience running infrastructure, data, DevEx, or AI platforms at meaningful scale.
- Has built developer platforms that internal engineers genuinely adopted (paved roads, golden paths, internal developer platforms).
- Has used AI-native workflows to materially change how a team designs, ships, and operates, and/or has built AI tooling/platform for other engineers (not just personal use).
- Experience leading a remote-first, distributed engineering team.
- Brings a network of high-quality platform/infrastructure engineering talent.
[1] Some more context:
(If you are on LinkedIn, you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply, you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks)
- How ClassDojo Connects Parents, Students, and Teachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XBnlzHpXTQ
- “Whats New on ClassDojo 2023 https://youtu.be/O8Tora5T7O4”
- TechCrunch Article: Second Act comes with First Profits https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/classdojos-second-act-comes-with-first-profits/
Click here https://www.classdojo.com/press/ if you're interested in learning more about what we've been up to.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):
- CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $240,000 to $280,000 (USD)
- All other states in the US: $204,000 to $238,000 (USD)
#LI-Remote
Listed by ClassDojo for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
Engineering Leader, Core Product Engineering
ClassDojo · San Francisco, California, United States
Pay
$240k–280k
Setting
Remote
ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.
We started by building a communication network that connects teachers, children, and families. Today, ClassDojo is used in the vast majority of U.S. schools and reaches tens of millions of children and families globally. We’re now expanding beyond communication into building the best possible learning experiences for kids everywhere.
We’re a small, high-talent-density team with experience from leading technology companies. We value ownership, speed, and thoughtful decision-making, and we aim to create an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.
We're hiring an Engineering Leader to own one of ClassDojo's product engineering areas end-to-end.
As the Engineering Lead for one of our core product strategy areas, you'll manage the engineering managers in your area, co-own outcomes with PM and Design counterparts, set engineering practices and quality across teams, and act as a demanding internal customer to our peer Platform org.
This is a manager-of-managers role with real architectural and strategic ownership. You'll have 2 to 4 engineering managers reporting in and influence over 15 to 30 engineers indirectly. You will be expected to set direction, not just execute on it.
What you’ll do:
Lead a multi-team product area
- Own the product area's company-level objectives and the engineering plan that delivers them
- Translate company priorities into product area plans and team plans, in a way that flows both up and down
- Be responsible for architecture-level trade-offs across the area's teams; own the technical roadmap and how it balances against product commitments
- Represent the product area in s-team forums and engineering-wide leadership conversations
Develop the engineering managers reporting to you
- Coach EMs to a higher bar with clear feedback, growth plans, and direct support
- Hold the line on engineering practices: flow-based delivery, vertical slicing (nothing >5 days, no project >4 weeks), WIP discipline, Definition of Done, observability, AI-native development
- Address performance issues early and clearly; develop managers out of "fine" performance into great performance
- Be directive when our values, quality bar, or ways of working are at stake
Drive technical excellence across the product area
- Support and drive architecture and systems design decisions across the area; ensure systems are reliable, maintainable, and operationally ready
- Take accountability for SLAs and incident response across the area
- Make tech-debt and reliability trade-offs on purpose, not by accident
Partner cross-functionally
- Co-own outcomes with PM and Design leads (roadmap, quarterly goals, quality bar)
- Partner with Revenue, Ops, CX, and other functions as the product area requires
- Formalize the interface with the Platform org: planning, committed deliverables, escalation paths
- Build pragmatic interim solutions that work today and migrate cleanly to Platform services as they mature
You will be a match if:
- 2+ years managing managers, with direct reports who were themselves people managers
- 7+ years total in technical roles, with a strong individual-contributor era you can still draw on
- Have owned a product area, pillar, or equivalent multi-team scope and delivered a measurable business outcome
- Have built or evolved engineering practices across multiple teams, not just within one
- Have hired, developed, and (where necessary) parted ways with engineering managers
- Operate with a reproducible structural playbook for changing org topology and developing managers, not just experience
- Comfortable making and defending architecture-level trade-offs; can still reason about code with taste
- Operate by Candor > Harmony: give the hard message early, comfortable with disagreement
- Use LLM-based tools daily and push the org to adopt them
- Are an excellent written communicator; can articulate strategy and trade-offs clearly in writing
Nice to Have:
- Experience in a multi-product or multi-persona consumer and enterprise business
- Experience leading a remote-first, distributed engineering team
- Has used AI-native workflows to materially change how a team designs, ships, and operates (not just personal use)
- Brings a network of high-quality engineering talent
[1] Some more context:
(If you are on LinkedIn, you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply, you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks)
- How ClassDojo Connects Parents, Students, and Teachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XBnlzHpXTQ
- “Whats New on ClassDojo 2023 https://youtu.be/O8Tora5T7O4”
- TechCrunch Article: Second Act comes with First Profits https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/classdojos-second-act-comes-with-first-profits/
Click here https://www.classdojo.com/press/ if you're interested in learning more about what we've been up to.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):
CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $240,000 - $280,000 (USD)
All other states in the US: $204,000 - $238,000 (USD)
#LI-Remote
Listed by ClassDojo for a position based in the United States. Employers on this board attest they are hiring domestically.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
ClassDojo · San Francisco, California, United States
Pay
$172k–250k
Setting
Remote
ClassDojo's goal is to give every child on Earth an education they love.
We started by building a powerful network for communication. ClassDojo’s flagship app is the #1 communication app connecting K-12 teachers, children, and families globally. Teachers use it to share what’s happening throughout the day through photos, videos, and messages that make parents feel like they’re there. It’s actively used in over 95% of US schools, reaching over 45 million children in 180 countries, with a team of just around 200 people [1]. We are now beginning to use this network to give kids the best learning experiences in the world, far beyond those a standard school can provide.
We hire for talent density. Our team comprises the most talented, entrepreneurial, and innovative teammates from around the world, with experience in education and large scale consumer internet companies, including Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Y Combinator, and more. We’re building a company where the most talented people want to work. We believe you’ll do the best work of your life here—and you’ll pioneer the future of education, too.
As a full-stack engineer at ClassDojo, you'll help build the systems that will support our rapid growth. You’ll work on production code from day one in a pair programming environment, deploy often, move quickly, and have your work used by millions of students, teachers, and parents around the world every day. In addition, you’ll help us further develop our high-quality engineering culture, one that values rapid iteration, collaboration, and best practices. Our code is heavily tested and deployed daily, and we’re serious about building a world-class engineering team.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Ship new and improved features to end users in collaboration with your team
- Write, debug, and optimize new and existing code for our web apps, API, databases, infrastructure with automated tests and monitoring
- Deliver code to production and features to users frequently and incrementally
- Collaborate with your team through pair programming, mob programming, code reviews, and design sessions
Contribute to cross-team technical improvements and investments
- Seek out opportunities to provide shared value through improvements of our common systems, tooling, and practices
- Support and improve our build and delivery pipelines
- Contribute to technical design and architecture conversations with your expertise and perspective
- Being curious and proactive about new tools, products, and approaches for AI powered engineering, evaluating how we can responsibly improve developer velocity, reliability, and quality.
Contribute to better practice, processes and teamwork
- Help to unblock teammates as well as other teams through hands-on work and guidance.
- Break work down so we can deliver value to users incrementally.
- Help grow other engineers into more senior engineers.
- Systematically improve the quality of our product and process.
- Encourage collaboration and psychological safety.
- Know and spread awareness about the larger business context of what teams and individuals are working on.
You will be a match if:
- You have 8-10+ years of professional software experience
- You have worked at companies at various sizes and stages - from well known larger tech players all the way to startup stage (whether as a founder/co-founder or in a high growth stretch)
- You have delivered impactful user and business outcomes
- You have driven technical excellence through improvements to process, practices, and tools (e.g. experience with test automation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices)
- You’re open to evolving with the role over time, including adapting engineering and product development practices as AI-powered products and workflows continue to become a larger part of our day to day.
- You have strong communication. You clearly translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- You're excited to get things done, in a fast-paced environment
- You have an ownership mindset: you are comfortable with both responsibility and accountability
- You're thoughtful about creating and maintaining a world-class engineering culture
- You work well in teams and enjoy collaborating with engineers, designers and product teams
- You enjoy working in a pair programming environment
- You are passionate about education and care about having impact on tens of millions of kids' lives with your work
- You live and work in the Americas timezones
Bonus:
- You’ve used Node and/or React at scale
- You've worked with MongoDB or MySQL
- You have DevOps experience, especially on AWS
[1] Some more context:
(If you are on LinkedIn, you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply, you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks)
- How ClassDojo Connects Parents, Students, and Teachers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XBnlzHpXTQ
- “Whats New on ClassDojo 2023 https://youtu.be/O8Tora5T7O4”
- TechCrunch Article: Second Act comes with First Profits https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/26/classdojos-second-act-comes-with-first-profits/
Click here https://www.classdojo.com/press/ if you're interested in learning more about what we've been up to.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We are happy to accommodate any disabilities or special needs. We are a distributed company, so we hire regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
ClassDojo takes a number of factors into consideration when determining compensation, including geographic location, experience, and skillset. Salary ranges (United States):
CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT states: $171,500 - $250,000 (USD)
All other states in the US: $146,000 - $215,000 (USD)
#LI-Remote
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