Staff Software Engineer

Company Description

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

The Ecosystem Services, Speedy Set up team is responsible for creating the future of License, Provisioning and Rostering for all existing and new logos of Renaissance. This team plays a key role in our ability to streamline the onboarding process and reduce the overall time and cost to get customers up and running so educators and children quickly realize the value of our product offering. We are seeking a highly motivated and expert Staff Engineer to join our growing team.

In this role as a Staff Software Engineer, you will:  

• Report to the Director of Engineering
• Support team members in crafting and implementing Golang services in cloud native architectures.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance and scalable software applications using Golang and modern stacks
• Ensure API standard processes are followed and that API documentation is maintained
• Mentor and train the team in agile engineering practices such as code reviews, CI/CD, test and test-driven development and pairing
• Guide the team in coding standards for cleanliness, security and maintainability
• Establish process and best practices for observability and monitoring
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, and QA to drive software development efforts
• Be accountable for the successful completion of projects by leading the technical planning and execution of high priority or high risk projects in partnership with product managers.
• Contribute to the company’s technical vision and lead efforts to evaluate and implement new technologies

Qualifications

For this role as a Staff Software Engineer, you should have:  

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• Demonstrated ability as a technical leader mentoring and guiding team members for at least 3+ years
• A strong background in modern practices for building applications, services and data ingestion pipelines
• Strong organization skills and be comfortable navigating ambiguity and owning technical direction
• Extensive experience working with Golang or modern technology stacks along with strong knowledge of cloud architecture, specifically AWS
• Proven track record of crafting and implementing low latency APIs
• Experience designing and running data pipelines and ETL processes
• Experience handling legacy systems and migrations of large core systems
• Experience with observability tools and practices
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and the ability to maintain high availability and reliability

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with Agile engineering practices such as TDD and pairing
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to develop creative solutions to complex security challenges
• Shown ability to own and drive technical initiatives from start to finish
• Strong commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: $109,000 -165,000 This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits:

• 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

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