Does promoting an organization that is impacting youth sound appealing? Would helping improve educational outcomes for K-12 students excite you? If so, consider a career with Elevate K-12!

At Elevate K-12, we are focused on a single goal: empowering struggling students to reach their full potential. Our virtual, second classroom provides students with access to a 21st century learning model, combining the best elements of personalized instruction, technology, and human-to-human collaboration.

In pursuit of this goal, we are looking for a Technical Lead to provide leadership and development for our rapidly expanding and focused technology needs, as we move from being a tech-enabled service to a tech product company. We are looking for a creative technology leader that has an intrinsic motivation for education and brings knowledge of product development, big data, engineering and IT. If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven, education technology company and creating the future of EdTech, then this role is for you!

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain the product platform.
• Provide technical leadership to the development team.
• Understand architecture principles, design patterns and implement them from architecture artifacts.
• Work with business analysts and solution architect to understand requirements, identify requirement gaps.
• Provide effort estimation of assigned work and be able to complete as per the estimations and timelines.
• Produce low-level designs based on architecture and high-level design document.
• Coding using Microsoft technologies.
• Review technical documentation and perform code reviews.
• Work with the QA team for build and release management.
• On-board new members to the development team and provide hiring support.

What skills you should have:

• Strong leadership skills
• Effective delegation skills
• Inclination to learn new technologies
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Good negotiation skills for work place conflict resolution
• Sound analysis, problem resolution, team building, judgment and decision-making skills
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions

What technical skills you should have:

• ASP.NET 4.0 (C#) MVC
• ASP.NET Core
• jQuery /JavaScript/ Angular
• SQL Server 2008/2012 (Transact SQL, Stored Procedures, Triggers)
• REST Web services
• Strong HTML background
• AJAX Techniques
• Entity Frameworks and LINQ HTML5,
• Razor View engine,
• Bootstrap
• Object oriented programming knowledge is a must
• Experience with cloud computing (Azure) is a plus