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Really Great Reading

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2005

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private equity on 2020-08

Education • B2B

Really Great Reading is a research-driven literacy company that delivers Science of Reading–aligned curriculum, decodable readers, intervention programs, and professional development to K–12 schools and districts. RGR offers supplemental and intervention materials, assessments, coaching, eLearning courses, webinars, and classroom resources designed to improve foundational reading skills, support English learners and students with dyslexia, and restore adolescent literacy. The organization emphasizes evidence-based programs, district-level implementations, and measurable student outcomes.

📋 Description

• Lead a dedicated team of three (a DevOps engineer and two developers), fostering professional growth, and partnering with the SVP, Engineering on performance reviews and talent acquisition. • Set clear sprint priorities, distribute tasks effectively, and maintain rigorous engineering practices (high-quality code reviews, CI/CD standards, and robust incident management processes). • Act as the primary technical liaison for the current application, helping the team resolve blockers and growing them into a highly autonomous, high-performing unit • Ensure the high availability, performance, and security of our current application stack (Django/Python, React/TypeScript, and AWS) through the upcoming platform launch. • Own application support, active incident response, and prompt, root-cause resolution of production issues. • Pragmatically maintain and evolve the existing codebase, refactoring critical bottlenecks while thoroughly documenting legacy systems to prevent knowledge silos. • Partner with the new platform development team to assist with technical transition points and align feature roadmaps. • Participate in key deployments, schema changes, and complex data migrations to ensure 100% service continuity for our educators and students. • Contribute clean, production-quality code, pipeline improvements, and modern architectural standards to the emerging ecosystem.

🎯 Requirements

• 5–7 years of full-stack software development experience, with at least 2+ years of experience formally leading, mentoring, or managing other engineers • Strong, production-level command of Python backend development, specifically utilizing Django, Django REST Framework (DRF), and Celery. • Hands-on experience building highly interactive user interfaces using React, TypeScript, and Redux. • Solid proficiency with PostgreSQL (query optimization, schema design) and comfort working with Docker and AWS (specifically S3, Lambda). • Experience building or maintaining modern CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions). • Comfort with asynchronous and real-time architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets, Redis). • Outstanding written communication and a high degree of autonomy in a 100% remote, document-first environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Rémunération compétitive: Salaire attractif, cinq (5) semaines de congés payés et indemnité de vacances conformément aux normes du travail du Québec. • Avantages sociaux: Assurance maladie de base et reconnaissance des jours fériés légaux du Québec. • Retraite: Prestations de retraite offertes selon votre juridiction de résidence. • Croissance et bien-être: Programmes de développement professionnel continu et initiatives axées sur la santé et le bien-être. • Flexibilité totale: Poste entièrement en télétravail.