Senior Software Engineer

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.

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our Data and Assessments team. In this role you will be part of a team responsible for building a next generation K-12 formative assessment platform that integrates into the Renaissance ecosystem.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Own projects, from design to deployment, leveraging the power of the team to provide quality solutions in a timely manner
• Use a solution provider mindset, capable of analyzing complex issues and breaking them down into multiple deliverables with little guidance
• Identify risks and tradeoffs and provide clear communication about potential impediments
• Support the team through code reviews, pair programming, and agile ceremony contributions
• Contribute to software development best practices
• Communicate effectively within the team and be a bridge to our product counterparts
• Work with both legacy and greenfield projects
• Participate and grow in a continuous learning environment

• 4+ years of Golang development experience with the ability to adopt other languages as required.
• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development with a focus on building web-based applications.
• 2+ years hands-on experience in AWS services like ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, EC2, Fargate, Route 53, RDS
• Experience leading and mentoring other engineers.
• Experience working with event-driven architectures.
• Experience building microservice solutions.
• Experience with relational, document, memory databases (Redis).
• Experience developing and consuming REST APIs.
• Experience working in a Lean/Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience with source control, specifically GIT.
• Experience working with continuous integration/deployment, and production monitoring & support.

Bonus points for:

• Ed tech industry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with PHP and C#.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
• Experience with converting monolithic applications to distributed applications.
• Knowledge of DevOps processes and technologies around version control, test automation frameworks.

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

Salary Range: $130,000 – $160,000. This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits:

• 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/