Senior Software Engineer, Back End

About the Role

Join our mission-driven team to build impactful solutions that reduce student absenteeism and increase learning time, directly contributing to better student outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software platform components for attendance analytics, process management, and family communication.
• Maintain and improve student and attendance data systems for performance and scalability.
• Develop new features to enhance product capabilities and drive student success.
• Automate operational and monitoring processes for system reliability.
• Optimize AWS infrastructure for performance, efficiency, and resilience.
• Contribute to technical discussions and shape scalable solutions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality technical solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong foundation in building scalable backend systems.
• Advanced proficiency in our core stack (or similar technologies).
• Experience with AWS infrastructure, including Terraform, ECS, RDS/Aurora, SES, and messaging systems like SQS/SNS.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities with strong attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills for articulating technical concepts and decisions.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous and evolving environments with a proactive mindset.
• Experience collaborating across teams to drive alignment and deliver goals.
• Fluent in English (written and verbal).

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with education or education technology.