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Who You Are
You are a mission-driven individual and believe in working to close the educational opportunity gap through the use of data and technical solutions. You are excited about bringing order to disparate data, and writing data pipelines, and don’t mind being relentless in pursuing data accuracy. You’ve previously worked with SQL and Python and written code that interacts with APIs.
You are an optimistic problem-solver. You believe that together we can create real solutions that help the entire education sector move forward despite its complexity. You are excited to join a small, but growing team working on an early-stage product and are looking forward to working on many different pieces of that product. You are open to feedback, bring your best every day, and are ready to grow in all areas of your work. You want to join a team of folks who share your vision for mission-driven work at the intersection of education and technology. Finally, you know that sharing often is key to this work, and are ready to document everything that you do so that data people in schools everywhere can benefit.
Experience and Skills
You are a good fit if you:
Have strong computer science fundamentals and experience with Python and writing analytical SQL
Consider yourself as having a very high attention to detail
Have strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical people
Are passionate about making an impact in K-12 education
Are comfortable doing many different types of tasks and having to context switch between tasks relativity often
Are passionate about building the best version of whatever you’re working on
Are highly motivated to work autonomously, with strong organizational and time management skills
You’ll have an edge if you:
Have worked as a data analyst or data engineer in the past and are familiar with validating data and tools like Pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, Google BigQuery, and Google Data Studio
Have experience building pipelines using Apache Airflow
Have worked in K-12 education in the past
Responsibilities
The Junior Developer’s primary professional responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
Implementing and maintaining Landing Zone for new and returning customers
Creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining data processing pipelines in Apache Airflow (ETL work)
Writing SQL queries against many different types of databases (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres) to extract data
Running reports and exports in edTech source systems as well as Landing Zone infrastructure to perform data validation checks and communicate those back to our customers
Maintaining Landing Zone documentation to ensure it is always up-to-date and reflects how integrations function.
Deploying code updates across the Landing Zone customer base
Assisting in the deployment of infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform for new customers
Assisting in the development of a historical/longitudinal data storage system (data warehouse)
Responding to customer support tickets (this is a shared responsibility on our team)
Working with internal systems such as JIRA, Asana, Slack to stay organized and ensure communication with team members
Other duties as assigned
What to expect in the hiring process:
An introductory phone call with a Manager
A coding project that will take about 2 hours. This will be in Python and be related to processing data.
A project review and feedback call with two developers
Final round interviews, likely including our Executive Director
The range for this position will be $58,500 to $75,000. Salary is commensurate with education and experience.
About InnovateEDU
InnovateEDU is a non-profit whose mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap by accelerating innovation in standards-aligned, next-generation learning models and tools that serve, inform, and enhance teaching and learning. InnovateEDU is committed to massively disrupting K-12 public education by focusing on developing scalable tools and practices that leverage innovation, technology, and new human capital systems to improve education for all students and close the opportunity gap.
About the Project
InnovateEDU strives to create real tooling and projects that greatly assist a school/district/state in moving toward embracing data standards, a data-driven culture, and data interoperability. Landing Zone, a project at InnovateEDU, provides school districts with a comprehensive cloud-based data infrastructure through the implementation of an Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS), data mart for analytics in Google BigQuery, and the necessary data workflows in Apache Airflow to connect previously siloed, disparate educational data systems. Landing Zone simplifies a district’s process to implement an Ed-Fi ODS, connecting Ed-Fi certified data sources and consuming non-Ed-Fi certified data once it has been aligned to the standard. This project heavily focuses on data engineering, backend work, dev ops, and data analytics tools to verify data.
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