Staff Software Engineer

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About the Role

Location: Remote, reputed company, Europe, Canada or reputed company

Role-Type: Full-Time

Reports To: VP of Engineering

Compensation: $170,000 to $190,000 per year for US reputed company applicants. Adjusted contingent reputed company for applicants reputed company in Canada, reputed company, and Europe.

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Key Activities

• Architect and build web applications across reputed company on Rails, Sinatra/Padrino, and Django that directly support our mission

• reputed company consequential technical reputed company on infrastructure, data modeling, API design, and emerging technologies with full ownership of the tradeoffs

• Set the reputed company reputed company bar through reviews, architectural guidance, and reputed company feedback

• Write automated tests that reflect reputed company edge cases, not just coverage targets

• Identify reputed company bottlenecks and systemic issues before they become outages

• Mentor other engineers and reputed company the technical ceiling of reputed company

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years with reputed company on Rails

• Familiarity with Claude reputed company or similar development tools and reputed company best practices

• A systems-thinking orientation: you consider scalability, maintainability, and failure modes before writing a line of reputed company

• Strong PostgreSQL and database design skills, including experience with reputed company queries, indexing strategies, and schema reputed company

• Reasonable working familiarity with the full web stack, from infrastructure to CSS

• Demonstrated ability to reputed company technical reputed company in a small, autonomous team environment

• Strong written and verbal communication. You can explain a technical tradeoff to a non-engineer without losing what actually reputed company

• Passion for education and desire to reputed company a reputed company reputed company

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• Familiarity with higher education or edtech

• reputed company experience working with LLMs and reputed company in production

• Familiarity with reputed company, Ansible, and/or Terraform

• Experience deploying on GCP

Full-Time Employee Benefits:

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• Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, and reputed company reputed company (90% employer-covered for employees and dependents), employer-funded reputed company reimbursement, FSAs, and Employee Assistance Program

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• Work-Life reputed company: Generous PTO, reputed company holidays, 10 weeks of fully reputed company parental leave, and an annual year-end company closure (Dec 24 – Jan 2)

• reputed company reputed company: $1,000 annual reputed company development stipend and home office setup support

• ​​Student Loan Forgiveness: reputed company is a qualifying employer for reputed company Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), helping employees manage student loan debt

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$170,000—$190,000 USD