Are you a self-starter passionate about your users and technology hungry for growth and success? Then read on…

Schools spend $1.3 billion every year on administration software alone and $12 billion on overall operations. This is a large market that has a lot of need and is ripe for disruption.

Helios Ed is delivering SaaS business and HR solutions to school districts and charters. Districts and schools across California and the nation are saving 73% time and cost by streamlining their processes and reducing overhead. It helps districts go paperless and enables administrators to get the right insights from their data. Helios is headquartered in San Ramon, California.

Summary

Helios Ed is seeking an experienced engineering manager to support our expanding base of users. If you are passionate about impactful software product and data and making users happy gives you joy, you would be a great fit.

Helios offers an attractive package and provides challenging and fulfilling work in the education space. You can help make our schools better and ultimately make on impact on the children. Best of all, you get to grow with an innovative company that can even take you to the career growth are you looking for.

What You will be doing:

• Be a master and company expert of the product and the software code behind it
• Build and maintain features within the product and understand its impact and implications on the product and users
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues reported by users and team
• Understand and articulate how user needs translate to product features and vice versa
• Train and guide internal and external users on the system
• Work with customers to guide product implementation including understanding their requirements and configuring the application accordingly
• Lead and support internal teams on the product and translate technical knowhow to plain English
• Guide the development team’s effort to work on building and maintaining the software and help prioritize features and bug fixes
• Import and export complex data and do data transformations using SQL Server
• Write intermediate to advanced SQL queries and views for creating reports, extracting data or importing data into SQL Server
• Build and support integrations with Helios to other systems using data files, APIs and other mechanisms
• Test applications, identify issues, and implement fixes
• Manage DevOps operations for ensuring smooth running and updates of the production and development environments
• Ensure performance and security of all applications by testing and analyzing for bottlenecks and fixing the different parts of the applications

What You need to have:

• Advanced knowledge and experience in writing SQL Server queries, stored procedures, functions, and views
• Advanced knowledge and experience in .NET Core, C# or similar object oriented programming languages, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of React preferred
• Experience in Windows, IIS, and SQL server administration preferred
• Demonstrated ability to import, export data, and do data transformations in SQL Server
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong leadership and project management skills
• Knack for working with users and making them happy and satisfied with the product
• Demonstrated ability to deliver quality code in time and budget with thorough testing and comments/documentation
• Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, technology, or a related field required
• 5+ years’ experience in writing advanced SQL queries and data integrations/ETL with SQL and 5+ years experience in hands-on coding in C# and JavaScript – this is an absolute requirement. Since this is an advanced level position we are unable to train on SQL or programming.
• Experience with creating reports using RDLC, or other reporting tools preferred

Why you will want to work for us:

• Attractive package including salary and bonus
• Great benefits including health, dental, vision, and paid time off
• On the job training and onboarding
• Grow with an innovative company in a rewarding role working with our schools
• Employee friendly startup culture with the capability to be heard and make a difference
• Work closely with company leadership

Helios Ed is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or veteran’s status.