Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Backend Developer

About C4EO - Skills Engine

Skills Engine is a technology innovation team based in Austin, Texas. We build data-driven solutions to connect the worlds of learning and work through a unified skills language. We are backed by the nonprofit Center for Employability Outcomes (C4EO) at TSTC, Texas's only public technical training institution. Our mission is to drive positive economic impact and better opportunities for everyone, through a shared understanding of skills.

Our engineering team is seeking a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to design, build and launch features and improvements to our web application. You will be responsible for developing best-in-class web applications, data libraries, and API services that all serve the objective of helping jobseekers, employers, and educators raise the bar together.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will report to the Director of Engineering and work closely with the engineering team to collect requirements, create technical designs, and implement software features, fixes and applications. You will apply your technical expertise and experience to give helpful, constructive feedback to other team members while maintaining team velocity. You must have a strong drive for results, interpersonal skills, as well as the ability and desire to tackle complex software challenges.

Texas based candidates preferred.

Demonstrate TSTC's core values of Excellence, Accountability, Service, and Integrity.

• Employee will demonstrate TSTC Core values of Excellence, Accountability, Service and Integrity with internal and external stakeholders, customers, students and members of the community.
• Be humble. Embrace humility and mutual respect, no egos allowed.
• Be adaptable. Be ready to take on new challenges and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Be transparent. Speak candidly about successes, struggles, and failures and be honest with yourself and others, not afraid to ask for help when necessary.

• Develop high quality, maintainable code using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript while continuing to meet project deadlines.
• Use your in-depth knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards; code reviews; continuous integration; branch-based workflow; source control management; build processes; testing; and operations.
• Provide excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to tackle complex software challenges.
• Collect requirements, describe software features, create technical designs, and write pitches for proposed new features, fixes, systems, and applications.
• Contribute to maintaining web software security, data efficiency, and performance optimization.
• Implement computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.
• Contribute to functional specification development and help shape well-scoped engineering pitches.

• Craft new architectural designs with team members to meet pitch requirements.
• Use your technical expertise and experience to give helpful, constructive feedback through code reviews, peer programming and retrospectives.
• Seek and learn new tools, technologies, languages, and frameworks to best solve business and engineering challenges at-hand.
• Help onboard new engineers with Skills Engine's processes, best practices and application architecture.
• Provide team leadership by identifying and distributing ownership of tasks, reducing scope, when necessary, across team members.
• Help identify and surface areas for process improvement across the engineering team.

• Provide timely and constructive updates of issues, timelines, and concerns to direct supervisors and team members.
• Work closely with the team members to proactively prioritize development and limit scope (when necessary) with team members.
• Actively participate within a small cross‑functional team to develop and deliver code in a timely manner.

• 10+ years of experience developing web applications, data libraries, and API service.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL and relational database systems, Postgre
  
  SQL experience is a plus.
• Experience with AWS and Dev Ops as it relates to deployments and scalability, especially utilizing Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity or experience with search engine optimization (SEO) and accessibility are a bonus.
• Familiarity with user experience, graphic design, Python, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and data analytics is a benefit.

• Thrive in the fast-paced and ever-changing environment of an early-stage startup; prioritizing and organizing multiple concurrent priorities, tasks, and projects in tandem.
• Demonstrate a willingness to aggressively learn new things and adapt to changing priorities and organizational needs.
• Deal well with ambiguity and flourish in an autonomous work…