CollegeVine

CollegeVine🍃 was started by three friends in a dorm room in 2013. Our founders had just gone through the college application process and wanted to level the playing field of undergraduate admissions. Now we employ over 850 consultants and are looking to hire more. We offer college prep for a fraction of what our competitors charge, with a robust pro bono program and scaled pricing to make CollegeVine an option for every family. As a CollegeVine consultant, undergrads at top schools get to make a difference, make bank, and build their careers through our network. Our curriculum works, with 73% of clients gaining admission to one of their top three school choices. The Positions posted here would be for their R&D department, working for their software engineering team!

Useful context

CollegVine are a bunch of polyglot veteran FPers who mostly work in Haskell and PureScript. Our infrastructure and non-mission-critical tooling tends to be in whatever works best for the task at hand: sometimes that's Haskell with 34 GHC extensions; other times it's minimalist Ruby or bash—basically, it's a team decision based on whatever sits at the intersection of appropriateness, developer joy, quality, and velocity.

Old-school ed-tech user experiences are not acceptable to us. Our software must impress and work for a wide audience since we serve students and their families. On any given day, your code will be run by high schoolers, college students, young professionals, guidance counselors, parents, and grandparents from all walks of life. Consider applying anyway even if you don't have professional FP experience. We will seriously consider anyone who passes our technical bar, regardless of how they got there. Please submit a cover letter.

Expect autonomy in exchange for transparency and results. Since you are well-read, curious, and self-aware, we will treat you like the awesome, interesting adult that you are. We have core hours and a goal-based environment; we understand mindfulness and the value of deep focus. We're chasing a big idea and we need every good teammate we can find.