
Engineer
ParentSquare2 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
Base Salary
$135k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Write and ship clear, simple code that improves educators’ workflows and student outcomes.
- Collaborate with product owners, designers, and senior engineers to build clean and simple features.
- Use and champion AI-assisted development practices to improve development velocity and code quality.
- Build and maintain robust services that operate at scale and meet high security standards.
- Contribute to technical direction, team culture, pull request reviews, and future system architecture.
- Help evolve the company’s monolithic systems while working with distributed systems.
- Deploy, monitor, and operate services on AWS infrastructure.
- Build and consume RESTful APIs.
Requirements
- Professional experience with backend and frontend services using Ruby, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or PHP.
- Strong experience building application services with MySQL or PostgreSQL and understanding relational databases beyond standard ORM usage.
- Experience with distributed systems and evolving monolithic architectures.
- Experience deploying, monitoring, and operating services on AWS, including Aurora, RDS, and SQS.
- Proficiency building and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience using LLMs and AI agents to improve software development workflows is expected.
Benefits
- Employer-paid health insurance, including dependent coverage.
- Employer-matched 401(k) retirement savings program from day one.
- Paid parental leave, stock options, health and wellness reimbursements, and increasing PTO.
- Fifteen paid holidays, including the employee’s birthday.
- Fully remote work arrangement with necessary home-office tools and equipment provided.