CampusOptics

CampusOptics is building the first comprehensive fire safety software platform specifically for higher education. Schools have a high regulatory bar to meet for fire safety compliance, and the consequence of failure can be dire. After a few months of market research, we’ve put a sales and client services team together with deep higher ed experience, and I’m looking for a software engineer to join me in Austin to build the product. We want to deliver large amounts of value as quickly as possible, and we’ll use technologies that enable that aim. Out of the gates, that will probably mean relying heavily on Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL and only introducing the complexity of front-end frameworks where they make a meaningful difference. We’ll also be delivering a mobile application with to-be-determined technology choices and tradeoffs. While you don’t already need to be an expert at all of these, we’ll be collaborating on things like defining our core data model, building the API that powers our mobile application, representing complex policies and fire standards in code, working with geospatial data to assist inspectors in the field, and creating visualizations of the state of fire safety on campus. In the near-term future, this will be a heavily product-focused role. Over time, this engineer could move into a people-management role (EM, Director of Engineering, etc…) or a technical-leadership (technical lead, software architect) role, so please apply whichever direction you’re headed.