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 eduCLIMBER engineering team is seeking a mission-driven and experienced Software Engineer to join us in our mission to deliver the best-in-class MTSS solution to K-12 school districts across the US. In this fully-remote role, you will be primarily focused on developing our backend API services as we scale to a rapidly expanding customer-base.

eduCLIMBER is a SaaS application; primarily written in PHP and Vue.js. eduCLIMBER stores data in MariaDB and is hosted on AWS. Though, we are exploring other languages and platforms as we reimagine the eduCLIMBER architecture. 

In this role you will:

• Work in close collaboration with Product Owners and other key stakeholders in expanding and enhancing the eduCLIMBER product 
• Drive key architecture initiatives to allow eduCLIMBER to efficiently scale as our feature-set and customer-base grows 
• Design and implement new services and pipelines to support key integrations with a wide variety of other systems 
• Collaborate with our Data Engineering team as we remodel our data persistence layer 
• Lead and mentor other engineers to promote growth across the team 
• Participate in an on-call rotation to assist with operational support for our US customers 

Qualifications

For this role you should have:

• 8 years of experience developing APIs in PHP 
• 4 years of experience developing, deploying and hosting applications on AWS 
• 4 years of experience developing against MySQL or equivalent RDBMS 
• 2 years of experience with Linux and Docker 
• Strong knowledge of various automated testing frameworks 
• Strong technical documentation and diagramming skills 
• Strong CS fundamentals, solid knowledge of OOP/OOD 

Additional Information

Salary Range: $105,000 – $198,800.  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
• 13 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.

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,