Engineer

Role Overview

• Write and ship clear, simple code that makes educators’ lives easier and improves student outcomes.
• Partner with product owners, design, and senior engineering teammates to ensure we build features as cleanly and simply as possible.
• Actively utilize and champion AI development practices within your daily workflow, helping your peers find ways to increase sprint velocity and code quality.
• Build and maintain features that operate robustly at scale while adhering to the highest level of security for the schools that rely on us.
• Contribute to a unified technical direction and a team culture focused on excellence, continuous learning, and speed.
• Actively participate in PR reviews and help implement the future architecture of our systems, including supporting the evolution of our monolithic systems.

Requirements

• Professional experience working on services utilizing Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or PHP
• Solid experience building application services with MySQL or PostgreSQL , including a strong understanding of relational databases beyond just standard ORM usage.
• Experience working within distributed systems and an understanding of how to work with and evolve monolithic architectures.
• Experience deploying, monitoring, and operating services on cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS (Aurora, RDS, SQS) .
• Proficiency with building and consuming RESTful APIs .
• Bachelor's degree (or higher) from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• JavaScript
• MySQL
• PHP
• Postgres
• Python
• Ruby
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Employer-paid health insurance (including dependent coverage)
• An employer-matched 401K retirement savings program from day 1
• Paid Parental Leave
• Stock options
• Health + wellness reimbursements
• PTO that increases each year
• 15 paid holidays, including your birthday!