Job Description
Wake up every morning and KNOW you are making a difference. Flipgrid s mission is to empower everyone on the planet to share their voice and respect the diverse voices of others.
The Flipgrid team has focused on student voices with our short-form video application and a rapidly growing, passionate community of educators that empowers over 100 million educators, learners, families, and organizations across 180 countries. Check out #FlipgridForAll on Twitter!
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers people who care about adding to our team culture and engaging the community we serve. We believe that why we do things is as important as what we do. You should be purposeful, quality-driven, curious, determined, collaborative, and fun.
As a Platform Software Engineering Manager, you will be an integral part of our tight-knit group of dedicated problem solvers. The ideal candidate should be able to quickly make an impact on the Platform team and work with the larger Flipgrid organization to deliver an innovative and meaningful learning experience to millions of students and educators.
- Deliver architectural solutions for an application at scale leveraging public clouds.
- Orchestrate, maintain and deploy services using infrastructure as code and containerized deployments using Terraform and YAML.
- Ability to work with cross-org stakeholders to deliver critical services
- Support organization-wide engineering efforts by planning and delivering tools and services to support the Flipgrid applications.
- Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
- Write clean and maintainable code that is efficient and reusable.
- Willingness to work on the entire stack from back to front.
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
- Follow best practices (continuous integration, TDD, code standards).
- Strong ability to collaborate with front-end clients/consumers.
- A strong commitment to mentorship and making your fellow engineers better.
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- Strong working knowledge of building and interfacing with REST APIs.
- 7+ years of Ruby or Rails experience with an emphasis on building, maintaining, and testing large-scale applications.
- 5+ years of experience delivering solutions leveraging Relational Databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL).
- 5+ years of front-end web development experience (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Usability Testing).
- Experience using a modern Javascript Framework (React, Vue, Angular).
- 5+ years developing features and experiences for large-scale, cross-browser applications across both mobile and desktop.
- Demonstrated ability to debug, troubleshoot, and optimize for high-performance user experiences.
- 5+ years guiding and mentoring a team of mobile engineers.
- Experience developing features and experiences for large-scale, customer-facing applications across both mobile and desktop
Bonus Credit for:
- Experience developing features end-to-end with a strong focus on quality, reliability, and accessibility.
- Strong product communication skills and experience working closely with design teams.
- Experience building accessible applications that follow WCAG and ADA specifications.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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