Senior Software Engineer
Renaissance Learning North America4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$110k - $151k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop end-to-end full-stack features for students, teachers, and school administrators.
- Design scalable data models and schemas using relational database technologies.
- Build and maintain highly available web and backend systems serving millions of users and thousands of requests per second.
- Maintain and evolve backend services including curricula-api and progress services.
- Use AI tooling thoughtfully to improve individual and team software development workflows.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and help establish technical direction and engineering practices.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers in a distributed remote environment.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and resolve customer-facing incidents.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience shipping high-quality web software for large user populations.
- Strong full-stack experience with React or a comparable single-page application framework, TypeScript, backend services, and APIs.
- Solid data modeling skills and experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work on an agile, multidisciplinary team.
- Preferred experience with event-based or event-driven architecture.
- Preferred experience with AWS, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3/CloudFront, ElastiCache, Lambda, Docker, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Bugsnag, or similar tooling.
- Passion for education and improving outcomes for students and teachers.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, vision, and telehealth benefits for eligible U.S. employees.
- Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) plans with company match.
- Paid vacation, sick time off, and 12 paid holidays.
- Parental leave of 20 total weeks, including 14 paid weeks, plus the Milk Stork program.
- Tuition reimbursement, life and disability insurance, well-being programs, and employee assistance programs.
- Distributed remote work environment.
- Contractors and other non-employee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits.
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About Renaissance Learning North America
Renaissance Learning builds assessment, reading, and math software for pre‑K–12 schools and districts, including Star Assessments, Accelerated Reader, myON, Freckle, and Schoolzilla. It sells cloud‑based subscriptions and services that support universal screening, data‑driven instruction, and practice. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the company is privately held by Francisco Partners and reports usage in over one‑third of U.S. schools and in more than 100 countries.