Sr Full stack Software Engineer

Vista Higher Learning is a company dedicated to developing culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Development team, focusing on innovation in digital language education products.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Perform tests to optimize performance
• Write clean code to develop functioning web applications
• Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of Senior level Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
• Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
• Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols
• Advanced working knowledge of ix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line
• Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge
• Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub
• Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
• Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately
• Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
• Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
• A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
• Experience working with LLMs and AI tooling for developers
• Experience with Ruby highly preferred
• Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry
• Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance