Swing Education

Most engineers are expected to be generalists and comfortable defining the state required, functions to manipulate state, and the accompanying frontend in a functional and performant manner.

Engineers typically work closely with a PM to spec and then build a feature. Each engineer has a dev environment to demo/share work in progress. Any larger commits is reviewed before deployment.

Deployment happens automatically upon successful git push assuming tests pass.

No previous Clojure or Datomic experience is required, we're comfortable and confident in training people and that they will enjoy it. The development environment and tech stack is interactive and provides a tight feedback loop.

For our substitute teachers this is their entire livelihood. As a result, correctness, fairness, and repeatability are very important. Notifications must be accurate and timely and our state tracking must have good audit trails.

Our software must be flexible to try to account for the myraid of possible edge cases that can occur during these course of a school day. The real world often does not fall into the neat buckets that we'd prefer and thus we try to design our features with that flexibility in mind.