Lead Software Engineer

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Ascend Learning, a leading healthcare and learning technology company,is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data-driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.

From testing to certification, Ascend Learning products are used by physicians, emergency medical professionals, nurses, allied health professionals, certified personal trainers, financial advisors, skilled trades professionals and insurance brokers.

Headquartered in Burlington, MA, with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America’s 2025 Greatest Workplaces as well as America’s Best Places to work for Mental Well-Being for 2025.

We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.

As aLeadSoftware Engineerin the Healthcare Workforce Solutions (HWS) group,you’llplay a pivotal role in shaping our technology and development of the Laudioproduct. Reporting directly to theSr Manager of Software Engineering,you’llwork in a dynamic, fast-growing environment, building and iterating on our cloud-based platform using

React,Node.js,Typescript, andAWS.

Our team is globally distributed across the United States and Nepal, meaningcross-time zone collaboration is key.

This role is primarily remote, but we prefer candidateslocatedon theEast Coastfor occasional in-person collaboration. While we strive forasynchronous work, early morning meetings (7 AM ET) will be required.

Additionally, we offer opportunities totravel to Nepal as neededfor deeper collaboration with our engineering team.

As aLeadSoftware Engineer at HWS, your responsibilities will include:

Lead-you'llpartner with Product tolead a team of software engineersusing the Scrum framework to rapidly ship high quality features to production.

Architect Scalable Solutions-you'lldesign, develop, and deploy software that ishighly available, performant, and scalable.

Hands-on Coding- act as a key individual contributor, writing code across the full stack to drive our product and engineering roadmap forward.

Mentor- foster a culture of learning by providing technical mentorship through code reviews and design discussions.

Innovate & Improve- continuouslyidentifyopportunities to enhance our technology and operational processes.

Being Glue-contribute across multiple areas, including feature development, code optimization, infrastructure improvements, and troubleshooting production issues.

High School Diploma or GED required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

5+ years of experience as aSoftware

Engineer. 3+ in a technical leadership role.

Proven ability to lead projects from ideation to implementation in an iterative, agile environment.

Strong experience building delightful frontend applications with React and Typescript.

Solidexpertisebuildingscalable distributed systems usingmicroservicesarchitecture with Nodeand Typescript.

Strong database skills, including SQL performance tuning, schemadesign,and relational database management.

Experience building cloud-native applications on platforms like AWS or Azure.

Strong fundamentals in modern development practices, including Agile,Scrum,CI/CD,test automation, feature flagging, and observability.

A passion for writing high-quality,maintainable,and scalable code.

An ability to smoothlyoperate, monitor, and troubleshoot production applications under pressure.

Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.

The current full-time annualized hiring range for this role is $-$ and does not include discretionary bonus or sales incentives, if applicable. In accordance with applicable state laws, we are providing the expected salary range for this position. Individual compensation will be determined by various factors,…