Software Engineer II
GoGuardian2 months ago
Remote, IndiaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and continuously improve the Pear Assessment product and related services.
- Develop TypeScript backend services and React interfaces for real-time assessments, dashboards, interactive workflows, and data visualization.
- Enhance OpenSearch-based semantic search across hundreds of millions of educational documents.
- Optimize data pipelines, queries, and data stores for low-latency insights and feedback.
- Architect and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, including SQS-based asynchronous and event-driven workflows.
- Work with MongoDB and other data stores to model, store, and query large-scale assessment and engagement data.
- Integrate AWS IoT services and LLM/AI services for classroom interactions, data ingestion, automated insights, content generation, and search relevance.
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, cross-functional collaboration, testing improvements, and engineering standards initiatives.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of professional industry experience building and delivering scalable production software features.
- Strong experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, concurrency patterns, APIs, and service-oriented architecture.
- Experience building modern React applications with TypeScript, APIs, state management, and responsive UI components.
- Familiarity with REST and WSS APIs and backend services handling moderate to high traffic.
- Working knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL, including query optimization and data modeling.
- Understanding of caching and performance optimization, including technologies such as Redis.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and services such as S3 and SQS.
- Experience with modern frontend tooling and libraries such as React Query.
- Ability to build reliable, maintainable, and scalable features with guidance from senior engineers, along with strong ownership, code quality, testing, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with AWS Athena, Spark, LLM/AI APIs such as Gemini or OpenAI, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, data processing workflows, or EdTech and K-12 products.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Health, accident, and life insurance.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Paid annual leave, holidays, parental leave, life-event leave, and a paid year-end holiday break.
- Professional growth and wellbeing benefits, including work-from-home funds and wellness checks.
- Supportive colleagues and a varied role at an innovative global company.
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About GoGuardian
GoGuardian builds software for K–12 schools, including web filtering, classroom management, and student-safety tools, and also operates the Pear Deck instruction platform. It sells subscriptions to school districts and administrators to manage student devices and support digital learning. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, the privately held company raised a $200 million investment in 2021.