About EveryDay Labs
EveryDay Labs improves student outcomes through the power of behavioral science. We are partnering with school districts across the country to reduce absenteeism because we believe every student deserves the opportunity to learn every day. COVID-19 has made this work even more critical.
EveryDay Intervention - our multi-channel attendance improvement & family engagement program - uses behavioral science and data analytics to provide parents and families with tailored, actionable information about their children’s attendance via mail & text. Seven randomized controlled trial studies conducted across 14 school districts have proven that the program reduces chronic absenteeism by 10-15%.
EveryDay Pro - our web-based data platform helps school and district staff monitor attendance, identify patterns and trends in absenteeism, and manage attendance interventions.
Truancy Support - helps schools and districts manage truancy processes using EveryDay Pro. We leverage behavioral science to send parents and families more effective, actionable truancy notices via mail. A randomized controlled trial conducted in a large, urban district, found the EveryDay Labs letters to be 40% more effective at reducing absences than the standard truancy notice.
We are passionate about iterating our products, refining our processes, and embracing and cultivating change.
Every day we strive to live our values: We put students first, We are fearless about learning, We rumble with courage and empathy, We are pathfinders, We foster diversity, equity, and inclusion, and have fun.
How You Can Help
As a Software Engineer at EveryDay Labs, your work will immediately improve student outcomes by helping districts across the county to reduce absenteeism and increase learning time for students who need it most. Your primary responsibilities will be building elements of our software platform. This includes:
- Integrating with data from student information systems,
- Leveraging natural language processing for a more effective family support chatbot,
- Maintaining our internal data store, Student Data Service,
- Building new features for our data analytics product, EveryDay Pro,
- Automating various existing manual processes,
- And more!
As an early stage startup, members of our engineering & data team have the opportunity to both contribute to existing, complex systems and help build products from the ground up, as well as have an outsized impact on our team, culture, clients and students. If you’re self-motivated and a great collaborator, we want to hear from you. You'll also get to work in an environment where clean code, automated testing, constructive code reviews, collaborative whiteboarding, thoughtful design, and easy deployments are considered to be the standard operating procedure.
Key Responsibilities
- Write clean, extensible, well-tested code for student data integration and configuration and delivery of outgoing communications and web-based data visualization
- Participate in architecture, design and implementation decisions for key components of our data ingest and content delivery pipeline
- Engage with internal stakeholders to determine requirements for new software components
- Seamlessly integrate new pipeline components with existing processes
- Contribute to code reviews and participate in the development of best practices within the engineering team
Qualifications
- Enthusiasm for improving educational outcomes for students
- Adaptability and willingness to learn new languages and technologies
- Proficiency in Java or a similar object oriented programming language
- Proficiency with UNIX command line tools and shell scripting
- Proficiency with SQL and relational database management systems
- Proficiency with version control systems such as Git
- Proficiency with a scripting language such as Ruby or Python
- Strong creative problem solving skills and troubleshooting ability
- Strong communication skills; ability to articulately discuss requirements and design decisions with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects at the same time while paying strict attention to detail and meeting deadlines
- Comfort with ambiguity; flexibility with potential role changes as the team grows
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders to achieve an objective, frequently communicating about project goals, timeline, and status
Bonus Points For
- Basic knowledge of Systems Administration
- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms such as AWS and associated technologies, such as Lambda, SQS, ECS, and Lex
- Familiarity with container driven development and deployment workflows using Docker
- Early stage startup engineering experience
- Experience with education or education technology
EveryDay Labs is an equal opportunity employer, and we are actively seeking to build a team and workplace that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We especially encourage people underrepresented in the tech industry to apply, and welcome your application even if you do not meet every one of the above requirements.
EveryDay Labs does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are a remote-only team, although candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.