Whollify is the system an institution runs on: admissions, courses, evaluation, messaging, attendance, records. When it is wrong, somebody's result is wrong. That is not a drawback of the job. It is the job.
Results, transcripts, and the full history of how each one was arrived at. Years later, somebody proves what they studied using what we stored. There is no version of that being roughly right.
Thousands of students explaining their work to each other, live, and every one of those sessions scored, recorded and checked. Getting that to be fair at that volume is the most interesting problem here.
Our students are on mid-range phones and data that comes and goes. If someone loses signal halfway through being assessed, that cannot cost them the mark. Most products treat this as an edge case. For us it is the normal case.
A university, a polytechnic and a bootcamp each run on Whollify without ever seeing each other. Twelve parts of a school join up into one place, and each institution decides which of them it turns on.
Not values on a wall. Each of these came out of something we got wrong once and now choose deliberately.
We move quickly on how things look and slowly on anything that touches a student's result. Those two get very different standards, and we are comfortable being slow on the second.
Everything is tried on the same phones and the same connection our students have. If it only works on good office wifi, it is not finished.
We look after it; we do not own it. Anything a school puts into Whollify it can take back out, and we built it that way rather than only promising it on a policy page.
New work goes to a real class doing real coursework, and we sit with them while it breaks. Almost everything we know came from that rather than from planning it.
You cannot build the system a school runs on with only people who have never run one. Half of what is hard here is institutional, not technical.
We are heads down on the system. Roles are posted here when they exist, and never before, because an advertised job that does not exist wastes the time of exactly the people we want.
If you would be hard to replace, write to hello@whollify.com anyway.
Tell us what you have built or run. Not a cover letter.
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