Company Description

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom.

Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Job Description

As a senior engineer on Renaissance's Journeys teams, you'll be designing and building a product that helps teachers see a full picture of their students, identifying the best next skills for each student's unique growth needs and enabling them to assign that work quickly and easily. We're looking for an engineering leader, someone who is as committed to collaboration and team improvement as they are to quality, maintainable code. We own and execute our features as a team, from the very first steps of the plan all the way through code deployment and beyond, creating our own alerting and monitoring and ensuring we understand how our code is performing at every step of the process.

In this role, you will: 

• Take on a role as a development leader in a remote agile team truly committed to collaboration, innovation, code quality, ownership, and team improvement 

• Develop applications teachers and students use every day, built on modern tools and frameworks: Angular, .NET, Python, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake 

• Build and troubleshoot infrastructure to host your applications in the AWS Cloud, using AWS Lambda, Batch, ECS, SNS, and SQS 

• Get fast feedback on code changes, building and using a CI/CD build pipeline to deploy to production at will using Git, Docker, Terraform, Concourse, and LaunchDarkly 

• Demonstrable skills in communication, collaboration, and critical thinking 

• Create strong technical documentation and diagrams 

Qualifications

For this Senior Software Engineer role, you should have:

• 5+ years experience working in software application development 

• Object-oriented programming 

• Experience developing a mainstream web development framework for JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS 

• Relational database querying using both SQL and GraphQL

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana and New Relic

• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc.) 

• Experience developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs, using microservices and event-driven architectures 

• Experience in .NET, Angular, Python, SQL, Snowflake 

• Knowledge of DevOps processes and technologies around version control, test automation frameworks, continuous integration/deployment and production monitoring & support 

• Experience working in a Lean/Agile/Scrum environment 

Bonus Points:

• BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are preferred.

• Thinking like an owner

• Drive for results

• Communicating with honesty, candor, and respect

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: $109,500 to $150,550   This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits for eligible employees include:

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match

• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off

• 12 Paid Holidays

• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Life & Disability Insurance

• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications! Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.

EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

For information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com/