About us
CollegeAppz is an early stage startup addressing the needs of 20 million U.S. and international high school students desiring to make smarter college choices. We're building a “TurboTax for College Admissions,” an one-stop shop for the entire college admissions and financial aid process.
Our beta went live in June 2013, and we’re gaining early traction and revenue. We're a very small team with big plans for the future. We’ve had write-ups in the Chronicle of Higher Education, TechCrunch, TechCocktail, and other news sources. We’ve partnered with the White House and U.S. Department of Education for a DataJam event focused on building the next generation of edtech tools. We're also partners with Pearson (#1 education company in the world) as their only college readiness provider.
We need you!
What we don’t have is a Lead Developer. We need you! This opportunity will be equity-only until we close our initial round of funding, after which you will be compensated with a startup-competitive salary plus your equity.
What you can do
The ideal candidate would have some background in edtech, specifically in white-label SaaS platform with a large back-end database. If you have a strong design sensibility, that's helpful too.
We're looking for a Lead Developer who is comfortable addressing unique technological challenges, building and leading teams, and who can help shape and effectively translate the vision of CollegeAppz into the premier source to find, prepare, and apply for college.
We want to build as close to a true “TurboTax for College Admissions” platform as possible, integrating APIs or creatively pulling information from Pearson (SIS system), College Navigator (college information database), Common Application (college applications), Parchment (transcripts), FAFSA (financial aid), and other sources. We also want to provide multilingual support to target the growing number of immigrant, first-generation, and international students applying to U.S. colleges.
If you’ve worked at Naviance, Blackboard, 2tor, or another big education company, and are looking to build the next generation platform for college bound students...we want to talk to you!
Compensation options: Employee Equity
Contact us today!
Want to learn more? We would love to talk to you. Find us on twitter @collegeappz, email us at Tina@CollegeAppz, or check out www.collegeappz.com.