Software Engineer (Mid-Level), Platform Team

COMPANY PROFILE

Code.org® is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in K-12 schools and increasing participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups. Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part K-12. The leading provider of K-12 computer science solutions in the largest school districts in the United States, Code.org also created the annual Hour of Code campaign, which has engaged more than 15% of all students in the world!

JOB SUMMARY 

Are you passionate about computer science and education? We’d like to work with you! As a mid-level software engineer on the Platform Team at Code.org, you’ll deliver software products and operate services used by tens of millions of students and teachers in K-12 classrooms around the world. Our team’s goal is to enable access to anyone and everyone who wants to use Code.org.  Whether that be through integrating with learning management systems, supporting new authentication providers, or even building solutions to deliver to areas with limited or no connectivity, our mission is to remove all obstacles that might prevent a student, teacher, or school from being able to utilize our platform.   And with AI bursting onto the world stage, we’ll be looking for ways to both use and support AI curriculum as well.

Learn more about our Software Engineering Team here! 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a member of our engineering team, you will:

• Own projects and build features end to end, working on exciting technical challenges using some of the latest technologies.
• Work with your product manager and team to flesh out details of feature work and identify impact and intersection with other components of our system.
• Explore and contribute to our efforts to incorporate AI in all aspects of our product and curriculum
• Look for opportunities and propose improvements to our processes and toolkit.
• Ship software regularly while maintaining excellent live site availability. 
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to an inclusive, growth-focused, and collaborative team culture.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates should have a good amount of software engineering industry experience. ML & AI experience are a bonus, whether in the industry or pursued as a personal passion on the side, we’re looking for you.

We seek candidates who have:

• Passion for our mission of growing access to computer science education
• Passion for learning and exploring new technologies, building processes and tooling to multiply the team’s output, and looking for ways to improve not only what we build, but how we build and operate it.  
• Full-stack experience with building foundational elements of consumer-grade web applications with preferably Ruby on Rails, Javascript, React, and ideally Typescript and MySQL as well.
• Experience supporting a production high-scale web-based software product or service using cloud technologies (ideally AWS)
• Experience in working independently on or leading investigations and implementation efforts.  This includes the ability to break down project work into smaller features, communicate status updates, and raise issues with proposed solutions.
• A desire to bias for action and maintain forward momentum.
• A product and team-first mindset where success is measured by the team’s delivery, execution, and health 
• At least 3-4 years of professional software engineering experience

In addition, AI experience is a bonus and includes:

• Experience with commercial, hobby, or open source language models and prompt engineering frameworks
• Knowledge of mitigating bias and improving safety of LLMs; preferably  for educational purposes
• Ability to apply AI models creatively and effectively using commercial and open source solutions 
• Familiarity with instruction tuning and agent frameworks 
• Proficiency in ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow

In addition, candidates must:

• Be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Pass a pre-employment background check
• Be willing to travel a minimum of two times per year for team events 
  

WHAT IS THE INTERVIEW PROCESS LIKE?

Step 1: Technical Assessment - General Coding
Step 2: Informational Interview - learn more about the role and share your experience (30 minutes)
Step 3: Full Interview Loop (3 one-hour paired interviews)

• Coding: Data Structures
• Coding: Syst