Software Engineer II

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

We are seeking a motivated Engineer to join an agile multi-disciplinary engineering team at Freckle. Play a key role in an impact driven culture and apply your ingenuity and creativity to make our team and company better. Learn continuously and help craft how we build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.  

In this role you will:  

• Collaborate as part of an agile, multidisciplinary team.  
• Communicate optimally in a distributed work environment.  
• Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users and 1000’s of requests per second.  
• Bring your own unique ability to the table and collaborate with others to accomplish your team’s goals.
• Experiment, test, try, fail, and learn continuously.  

Environment & Team:  The department is currently 14 people, organized into tightly knit teams that routinely collaborate. This is a highly creative impact driven environment where you pull your own work. AWS, Postgres, Haskell with Yesod Framework, React with Redux, TypeScript in a heavy API environment with Infrastructure-as-Code deployments. 

Qualifications

For this role, you should have:

• A curiosity about learning a functional programming language such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc. is required.  
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, equivalent field or proven experience is helpful.
• Experience with React or comparable SPA framework is preferred.  
• Experience with static type checkers such as Java, C#, TypeScript, etc. is helpful.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are preferred. 

Bonus points:

• Experience with functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc. 

Additional Information

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

Salary Range: $82,00-113,000.  This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits:

• World Class 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

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans, 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 into the future. We hope you're open to learning new skills to grow with us. Make our team, your team!

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.

At Renaissance our mission is: “To accelerate learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide.” Inherent in that guiding principle is dedication to serving all identities by recognizing the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in our organization, our work and our products. 

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 an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.

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