Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Springboard Collaborative is committed to closing the opportunity gap in education and is seeking a Full-stack Developer, Web & Mobile to enhance their software offerings. This role involves delivering high-quality mobile and web experiences, collaborating with teams, and ensuring software products meet user needs. The developer will be responsible for creating and maintaining cross-platform features, optimizing APIs, and mentoring junior team members.
Responsibilities
- You translate requirements into technical specifications and work to plan, design, develop, and maintain new web and mobile requirements
- Develop and maintain cross-platform features and UI components using React Native (iOS/Android) and React/Ruby on Rails (Web)
- Write clean, efficient, and documented code that adheres to established standards and repository organization best practices
- Manage the deployment lifecycle, including contributing to deployment scripts and monitoring post-release application health
- You design, develop, and maintain code integrations and API functionality
- Architect scalable API endpoints and integrations with external systems, ensuring high performance and reliable operation
- Implement robust security measures, including data validation, authentication, and authorization mechanisms
- Optimize and document API performance, providing clear usage guidelines and troubleshooting response times or error handling
- You conduct thorough unit testing of features and bug fixes on both mobile and web platforms to ensure cross-platform consistency and reliability
- Execute comprehensive unit tests to validate the functionality and correctness of individual modules and components
- Manage the full bug lifecycle, from participating in rotation-based error monitoring to root-cause debugging and resolution
- Utilize advanced diagnostic tools, including logging and monitoring systems, to troubleshoot complex technical issues and share findings with the team
- You collaborate with internal and external product, engineering, and quality assurance team members to ensure software products meet the highest standards of quality
- Drive Agile excellence by actively participating in Scrum events, requirement reviews, and technical solution discussions
- Maintain project transparency by communicating progress, risks, and challenges clearly to all stakeholders
- Uphold code quality through rigorous code reviews and a commitment to continuous learning of emerging industry frameworks and best practices
- You support and mentor junior team members in mobile development and full-stack technologies
- Guide and mentor engineers through their professional development, offering technical support in mobile and full-stack domains
- Foster a culture of improvement by conducting regular knowledge-sharing sessions and providing constructive feedback on peer code
Skills
- You have 4+ years of experience in full-stack development, including mobile and web technologies
- You have 3+ years of experience with React Native for mobile development, alongside React for web
- You have proficiency in mobile app development (iOS/Android) with a focus on performance optimization, debugging, and cross-platform consistency
- You have an understanding of software development principles, methodologies, and best practices, with a focus on mobile-first design
- You have knowledge of relational databases and the ability to write complex queries for data manipulation and retrieval
- Valuing Equity: You actively create and support a work environment and technical products that embrace and appreciate inclusive excellence
- Analysis & Reasoning: You actively collect and examine data to grasp issues with our products or methodologies, draw data-driven conclusions, make strong recommendations for improvement, and resolve bugs and obstacles
- Attention to Detail: You diligently pursue completion, thoroughness, and accuracy in your work and pursue the highest quality in our software products through your coding and testing
- Teamwork: You communicate and cooperate within and across teams effectively and proactively, sharing a commitment to achieve product goals and follow through on team deliverables
- Problem-Solving: You proactively work to resolve difficult and complicated technical challenges with diligence, creativity, innovation, and persistence, moving forward with initiative and focus
- You have a degree in computer science or a related field
- Ruby on Rails experience
- You have an understanding of mobile security practices, especially related to mobile data storage, authentication, and API interactions
- You have experience with mobile-specific continuous integration and deployment practices
- You have experience collaborating with offshore development teams, demonstrating strong communication and coordination skills
Benefits
- Medical insurance, vision, and dental.
- We match up to 6% of your salary in 403(b) retirement contributions after your first twelve months at Springboard.
- Four weeks (20 days) of PTO all 11 federal holidays, two extra floating holidays, weekdays between December 25th and New Years Day, Election Day, and your birthday!
Company Overview
Springboard Collaborative coaches teachers and parents to help kids read on grade level. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://springboardcollaborative.org/.