Principal or Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer

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Remote Principal or Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer Needed (Must Have Exp. W/ Developing a Consumer-Oriented Public Facing Web Product, EST Time Zone, Node, React, AWS) - EdTech Industry!

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Salary $120,000 - $200,000 per year

A Bit About Us

We are seeking a Remote Principal and Staff Level Full-Stack Engineers that have experience with public facing web product development. Founded close to two decades ago, we are a prominent EdTech company with a mission to amplify proven high-quality curriculum products through world-class software, impacting millions of educators and learners in unprecedented ways. Our digital product team plays a crucial role in realizing this mission by designing and evolving digital learning products that positively impact the lives of teachers and students. Renowned for our innovative approach to curriculum development and educational resources, primarily serving PK-12 education. Our flagship Math curriculum learning product is the most used in the history of EdTech and will go down in the history books. Additionally, our English learning product has gained widespread recognition for its effectiveness in PK-12 classrooms across the United States. As a dedicated EdTech leader, our technology enhances the educational experience, offering a range of digital tools and resources alongside traditional materials.

Why join us?

• Competitive base salary and overall compensation package
• Bonus up to 17% (we have hit 100% of this the last 4 years in a row)
• 401 K with generous company match
• Full benefits Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (Starting day 1)
• Generous PTO, vacation, sick, and holiday schedule
• Work with proven leaders in this space
• Positively impact the future generation of the US
• Our tech teams are remote first
• Company makeup Over 1000 employees, Over 400 technical, 80 Engineers, 12 DevOps

Job Details

We are seeking a Remote Principal and Staff Level Full-Stack Engineers that combines hands-on contributions with responsibilities for the technical design and architecture of our systems. This role is pivotal in ensuring that the software solutions we build deliver exceptional customer experiences. We are seeking an individual excited about shaping the future of education through technology, with a preference for candidates with experience in the publishing industry or rich content production workflows, especially in education. Currently, we have over 130k daily users and growing and are looking for someone that has experience building public/customer facing web products with at least a similar number of daily users, if not more.

Responsibilities

• EST Hours (minimally core programming hours)
• Combination of architecture and hands-on development
• Build new features and functionality to our existing products and platforms
• Build public facing digital products and help us scale
• Collaborate closely with product managers and product designers to contribute to the development of exceptional products.
• Evaluate, decide, and implement technical architecture decisions and designs, effectively communicating these decisions to the team.
• Coach and mentor software engineers to foster a collaborative and high-performing development environment.
• Review application code to ensure the release of high-quality software that aligns with our standards.
• Define and maintain organizational technology standards to ensure consistency and excellence.
• Lead the development of new software products and enhancements to existing products, contributing to the evolution of fundamental tools for users, authorization systems, assessment software for teachers and parents, reporting tools for educators, authoring tools, curriculum tools, and student interactivity tools.
• Work holistically on the entire problem, not just isolated pieces, to create comprehensive and seamless solutions.

You should have some, if not all of the following experience

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on designing technical solutions at the component or module level for at least 2 years
• (Must) - Recent Exp. building a consumer-oriented / public facing digital web product (Ideally with over 10k daily users) - users must be external customers
• (Must) NodeJS
• Exp. with the MERN stack would be desired
• React, Vue, or Angular
• MongoDB or PostgreSQL
• APIs
• Full-Stack Development
• Load Testing, Observability, Accessibility, Security
• Multilingual would be a plus (product used in different languages around the world)
• Authentication, authorization, OAuth, JWT
• Strong ability to communicate application architecture effectively, both in written and verbal formats, to diverse audiences
• Intellectual curiosity, a passion for learning, and a strong problem-solving mindset
• AWS

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