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A Software Developer or Engineer designs or improves computer software. Oversees the entire software development process. Analyzes customer or user needs, designs programs, writes code or instructs computer programmers, tests design, and documents programs. May assist with upgrades or maintenance. May specialize in the design of computer applications or computer systems.
$124,951 / year median in the U.S.
-2% projected decline
Job Description
- About Renaissance
- When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K-12 education technology!
Renaissance's solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide. Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.
- Job Description
- As a Senior Software Engineer you will be one of the founding engineers on the Navigators team within Teacher & Learning Explorations.
You will work across the seam where four mature products meet one shared discovery layer: designing the contracts between them, packaging their capabilities so they can be composed, and making search and curation work as one experience rather than four. You will be making it fast and intuitive for admins to govern and curate, for teachers to find and instruct, and for students to explore and grow their respective libraries.
- In this role, as a Senior Software Engineer you will:
- + •Design and own the contracts•between the Libraries and the four products — OpenAPI interfaces, typed message schemas, and the versioning discipline that keeps breaking changes from becoming someone else's outage.
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- Build the discovery layer
- — search, relevance, and retrieval across a large and heterogeneous content library. +
- Create and maintain continuous delivery pipelines
- for code, infrastructure, configuration, and data. +
- Evolve the engineering culture, standards, and best practices
- — security, governance, new ideas — within the team, and help us decide the stack questions that are still open.
- Qualifications
- For this role, you must have:
- + Substantial professional experience building and operating
- production backend services
- . +
- Strong TypeScript
- , or strong proficiency in a comparably typed language and a genuine willingness to work in a strict-TypeScript codebase. + Demonstrated ownership of
- API contracts
- in a multi-service system: designing them, versioning them, and testing against them. +
- Cloud operations depth
- — you can design infrastructure, not only consume it, and you write infrastructure as code (we use
- Terraform
- on •AWS•).
+
- Release engineering depth
- — you have built and maintained continuous delivery pipelines and reduced toil in build and release systems. + An effective communicator who collaborates well with distributed engineering, product, and design teams, and can explain a technical trade-off to a non-technical audience. + Experience
- mentoring
- engineers and raising the level of the people around you. + Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
- Additional information
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- Salary Range:
- The base range for this position is $109,500.00 - $150,550.00. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location. \#LI-Remote
- Benefits for eligible US employees include:
- +
World Class Health Benefits:
Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
+ Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts + 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
+ Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off + 12 Paid Holidays
+ Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
+ Tuition Reimbursement
+ Life & Disability Insurance
+ Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs
- _Benefits listed apply to eligible U.S. employees in accordance with Renaissance's benefits eligibility criteria. Contractor and other non‑employee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits._
- Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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- Reasonable Accommodations
- Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition (TATeam@renlearnCRM.onmicrosoft.com) .
- Employment Authorization
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. For more information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com