Software Architect

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Accelerate Learning provides STEM curriculum and professional development solutions that empower teachers, increase scores, and inspire students to become tomorrow’s STEM leaders. Its award-winning STEMscopes and Math Nation curricula and resources are highly adaptable, accessible, and support instruction in any learning environment. The comprehensive, results-oriented solutions are used by more than 9 million students and 750,000 teachers across the country.

“For teachers, by teachers” is not a slogan—it’s a fact. Our flagship product, STEMscopes, was incubated in the classroom and developed by over 200 teachers, science experts, and science professors. Our origins lie in providing teachers a model for implementing inquiry-based learning in the classroom and are still core to how we develop and enhance our products today. Accelerate Learning has always listened to the teachers by taking in feedback, best practices, and the latest pedagogy to develop the most effective STEM curriculum.

Affordable for schools, engaging for students, and easy to use for teachers, Accelerate Learning drives student achievement by supplying teachers with comprehensive core content and supplemental activities delivered in customizable ways that can be adapted to unique teaching and learning styles.

At Accelerate Learning, we’re dedicated to engaging and inspiring STEM education for PreK–12. Our mission is to spark curiosity in the STEM classroom with programs designed by experienced teachers and STEM experts. Supporting over 9 million students and 750,000 teachers, we constantly adapt to educators’ needs and customer feedback to promote powerful teaching strategies that shape the future of STEM learning.

Our flagship product, STEMscopes, was incubated in classrooms and built by educators, scientists, and engineers. As we expand, we are investing heavily in modern cloud technologies, AI, and scalable product engineering.

This is an opportunity to join as the Software Architect, serving as the end-to-end architectural authority for one or more core curriculum and supplemental product platforms. In this role you will own the full architectural lifecycle of assigned systems—spanning current production applications and future-state design. You will hold explicit accountability for non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability), the ongoing maintenance and operability of live products, and will serve as an active participant in delivery—contributing hands-on alongside engineering teams.

You will work closely with product, curriculum, and engineering teams to ensure technical solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with Accelerate Learning’s mission to improve student outcomes through innovative instructional technology. This role balances system design, hands‑on development, production system stewardship, and long‑term platform evolution.

• Serve as Software Architect for assigned core curriculum and supplemental applications/Services, holding end-to-end accountability for architectural integrity across both existing production micro services and new capabilities.
• Own the maintenance and operability of assigned production applications—ensuring systems remain healthy, supportable, and fully operational through disciplined incident management, dependency tracking, runbook maintenance, and proactive operational risk reduction.
• Own the ongoing architectural health of production systems—monitoring technical debt, identifying structural risk, and driving remediation plans that balance modernization with business continuity.
• Lead application maintainability efforts—incremental re‑architecture, strangler fig…