Senior Software Engineer - Teacher

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At GoGuardian, we're helping build a future where all learners are ready and inspired to solve the world's greatest challenges. Our award‑winning system of learning solutions is purpose‑built for K‑12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe.

We are an outcomes‑focused learning company with a steadfast focus on improving learning environments, one classroom at a time. Working with us means joining a remote team of diverse, committed, mission‑driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and ready to roll up their sleeves. Guardians put their heads together to solve problems, learn together from experiments that fail, and stand together by their work with full accountability.

We balance our diligence with an inclusive culture that invites everyone to bring their whole self to work. Join us and learn why “I love the people here” is one of the most frequent comments we hear from Guardians.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack to design and implement solid architectural solutions with the rest of the engineering team, supporting our Teacher product. With your passion for quickly solving problems and ability to implement high‑quality code while continuously collaborating with other amazing team members, you will be making our teachers' lives easier while helping them engage every student every day.

Our Engineering team is built on a purpose‑driven culture of collaboration, openness, trust, and transparency with amazing individuals that push the limits and think outside the box every day. As the foundation of our company, GoGuardian engineers help build, optimise, and maintain our infrastructure and applications that support millions of students and educators every day. They develop solutions to support meaningful interactions between students and teachers in face‑to‑face, remote, or hybrid learning environments.

• Design, build, and continually improve our products that support millions of students and educators every day.
• Work on production code and build rich feature sets that solve the complex problems in education.
• Write high‑quality maintainable code that is well‑documented with good test coverage.
• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle.
• Work with and learn a variety of technologies, languages, and frameworks, such as Golang, React, Terraform, AWS/GCP, Docker, Linux, Type Script, MySQL.
• Mentor and coach developers, helping them improve and perfect their skills.
• Join an engineering team of motivated and empowered engineers helping to embody the principles of fluidity, critical thinking, innovation, and collaboration.

• 5+ years of professional industry experience leading and coordinating complex and large‑scale features.
• Accomplished in writing high‑quality, maintainable code in a modern programming language (e.g. Go, Python, Java, C#, C++).
• Experienced in designing and building APIs (REST, Graph
  
  QL, gRPC) and microservices.
• Experienced with JavaScript libraries/frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc.).
• Experienced with SQL and No
  
  SQL databases for scalability and performance.
• Has working knowledge of cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Has working knowledge of container orchestration platforms (ECS, Kubernetes).
• Proven experience delivering highly performant and scalable features.
• Proven advocate for engineering quality (Jest, Storybook, WDIO, Postman, etc.), and for building a thriving team culture.
• Great communication skills and an ability to proactively identify problems and solutions across teams and stakeholders.
• Eager to take initiative in a fast‑paced, ever‑changing, dynamic environment.
• Fueled by the opportunity to truly impact the education landscape.
• Something else? Tell us! We want to learn more about you.

• Competitive pay, complete health insurance, 401(k) matching, and an employee equity plan.
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and a paid…