[edm-announce] Ed-tech startup hiring a CTO

From: Kara Carpenter <kara@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:33:15 -0400
Do you believe in the power of technology to transform education?  Do you
think young children take too many tests when they could be learning from
educational games? Unfortunately, most apps provide little more than
drill-based worksheets, do nothing to address conceptual understanding, and
ignore the power of learning analytics and stealth assessment to figure out
what students understand. *Kids deserve better.*

Teachley <http://www.teachley.com> is an educational technology company
founded to disrupt education in the earliest grades. Recently awarded $1.05
million in grants from the Federal Department of
Education<http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/10/games-win-big-education-grants-competition>,
Teachley incorporates the latest cognitive science research to create apps
that promote efficient strategies and deep learning. Our first app, Addimal
Adventure, focuses on single-digit addition strategies and will be released
in June. Our apps will incorporate data mining algorithms to adapt the
content and provide teachers with formative assessment data, two important
trends in educational technology.

Based in New York City, we are a young, passionate team of educators,
cognitive psychologists and game designers who love what we do. Our
creative process is collaborative and inspired by our work with kids. *We’re
looking to expand our team!* This is an excellent opportunity to get
involved early to help build a startup company that will disrupt the
current education system and change how children learn.
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*Chief Technology Officer*
We are seeking an energetic, brilliant thinker, who will direct our
technical vision.  As CTO, you will design and lead development of our
next-generation data platform, analytic engine and reporting dashboard as
well as develop strategy around data security and interfacing with other
education APIs.  You have experience as a full stack engineer with emphasis
on back-end development and experience working with front-end product
teams.  You’ve had well-rounded experience with database servers (both SQL
and NoSQL), web servers (Apache/Nginx), mobile devices (iOS or Android),
web-based front end development (HTML/JS/CSS), REST-based APIs and software
development in a few languages.  This role will be a mixture of technology
leadership, software and data architecture, team coordination and hands-on
implementation building cutting-edge education gaming software that changes
K-3 education.

Send resume and cover letter to: kara@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[edm-announce] Ed-tech startup hiring a CTO

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