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[Sara Brook]

Hi, Everyone!


As you may know, Teacher U is a teacher certification and graduate program that prepares teachers to be successful at closing the achievement gap and preparing all students for success in college and beyond. We partner with Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First - nationally recognized, top-performing urban charter school networks - to build a Master's program for full-time teachers that ensures they are delivering the absolute best instruction to students. Our technology team is absolutely critical to building this program: our in-house team is building the infrastructure and technological systems to scale in order to support online learning and on-the ground support for a program that will grow to serve over 10,000 teachers over the next ten years.  If you're interested in applying for the role or learning more about it, please contact jobs at teacheru.org<mailto:jobs at teacheru.org>. Please feel free to pass this opportunity to others who may be interested in the position!



Position: Web Application Developer



Reports to: Director of Technology & Knowledge Management

Location: New York, NY or Boston, MA preferred



GENERAL SUMMARY

Teacher U regards technology innovation as a fundamental platform of the organization's strategy. As such, Teacher U seeks a talented Web Application Developer who is passionate about building software that helps develop continuously-improving, results-focused teachers. This is a hands-on position that will require you to wear many hats, but will also allow a great deal of creative freedom to establish a unique technology platform serving public school teachers across the United States. This is an outstanding opportunity to play an integral role in public education reform.



ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and create new, custom academic software;

Support, enhance, and extend an existing learning management system (developed using Moodle);

Enable a coherent user experience by building appropriate data integration between Teacher U's academic and operational applications;

Document anecdotal application requirements and translate documented application requirements to the production of high quality, bug-free software; and

Coordinate with third-party application development contractors and consultants, as necessary.



QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates for the position must have the following qualifications:

An ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment;

Excellent organization and project management skills;

An obsessive attention to detail;

A solid command of verbal and written English and the ability to tailor communications for technical and non-technical audiences;

A demonstrated ability to work with colleagues both at the adjacent desk and in geographically separated cities;

A high level of professionalism, self-confidence, decisiveness, and initiative; and

Three years of relevant professional experience preferred.



Candidates for the position must also have the following technical skills:

Ability to enhance an open source application (Moodle) using custom code in a PHP framework (Symfony) and MySQL;

Experience with developing custom software from scratch;

A strong grasp of at least one object-oriented language;

An ability to demonstrate competence in common design patterns by writing code;

An ability to articulate best practices for version control, code promotion, configuring technical environments, and writing and tuning database queries; and

Familiarity with several different development methodologies and ability to articulate an informed preference for at least one methodology.



DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS

The ideal candidate for this position will also possess some combination of the following professional and personal characteristics:

A strong eye for UX/UI considerations;

A high level of zest, grit, hope, gratitude, and enthusiasm;

A sense of humor; and

A bachelor's degree, preferably in engineering or computer science.



COMPENSATION

Teacher U offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience. UKA Teacher U Web Application Developer (033) Page 2 of 2



HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit your resume to jobs at teacheru.org with the name of the position for which you are applying in your subject line. If you know of someone who would be an ideal candidate for this position, we encourage you to send his or her name and email address to refer at teacheru.org.

UKA Teacher U provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees.

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Sara Brook
Manager of Recruitment, UKA Teacher U
40 West 20th Street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10011
W: 212-228-1888 x155 | M: 202-744-4994 | F: 212-228-1855
sbrook at teacheru.org<mailto:sbrook at teachru.org> | www.teacheru.org

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