Senior Software Engineer, Scoring

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Full Time Professional US

5 days ago Requisition

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Senior Software Engineer, Scoring

New Meridian Corporation, located in Austin, TX seeks outstanding candidates for the Senior Software Engineer, Scoring. This position, reporting to the Director of Waypoint Administration, Scoring, and Reporting, will assume responsibility for analysis, design, development, unit testing and implementation of a K-12 educational assessment technology solutions at New Meridian Corporation.

New Meridian is a non-profit, assessment design and development organization. We believe assessments should focus on skills that matter: critical thinking, deep understanding, and the ability to communicate ideas effectively, helping prepare students to adapt and thrive in a complex world. At New Meridian, we create high-quality assessments that measure these skills to ensure all students have access to valuable educational experiences.

Our team is defined by a strong commitment to improving student learning, empowering teachers, and advancing the role of high-quality assessment in expanding opportunity for all students. We are recognized leaders in assessment innovation, driven by our willingness to tackle complex challenges and our dedication to delivering exceptional support to our partners.

SUMMARY:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Scoring to design, develop, and support scalable, secure, cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate will have strong experience across backend development, modern AWS services, containerized deployments, and relational database design that supports high-stakes, high-volume data workflows. This role will collaborate closely with product owners, business analysts, QA engineers, and Dev Ops teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet customer and business needs.

Experience with educational assessment, scoring, or psychometric data is highly desirable, though not required.

This role is both strategic and hands‑on. Your success will be measured by the reliability, scalability, and clarity of the platforms you help create, as well as by your influence on engineering best practices and cross‑functional collaboration.

Our ideal candidate has the following traits:

• An ability to get things done:
  You are results-driven, action oriented, and persistent. You are a master organizer and project planner who consistently looks ahead and anticipates needs before they arise. You take initiative and are action oriented.
• Analytical:
  You have strong analytical skills and are comfortable reviewing quantitative data to inform your understanding of the market and customer needs and issues.
• Creative mindset:
  You have the ability to quickly adapt and develop creative solutions to communication and logistics challenges. You are not easily discouraged.
• Emotional intelligence:
  You are highly self-aware and perceptive to the dynamics of key relationships. You are positive, empathetic, flexible, and curious. You naturally gain the respect of your colleagues through your authenticity, warmth, and competence.
• Trustworthy:
  You are highly ethical, principled, and mission driven, garnering the trust of colleagues and vendors. You exercise discretion and confidentiality.

• Design and implement scalable cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services.
• Design and maintain robust data pipelines for…