Senior Software Engineer (full-stack)

About the Opportunity:

This organization is dedicated to expanding access to knowledge and education globally through various services that enable learning and growth. The Senior Software Engineer (full-stack) role offers the chance to work on impactful products that make education accessible to millions of users. The position involves using diverse technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Java, Golang, Python, TypeScript, and GitHub/GitLab, and contributing to open source.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate in an Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high-performance applications.

• Use continuous deployment and test automation to release application changes multiple times daily.

• Engage with internal and external customers to understand needs and develop web applications accordingly.

• Build rich, interactive web applications using modern technologies and frameworks.

• Utilize web analytics to support product discovery and measure project KPIs.

• Test, measure, and optimize application performance with Application Performance Management tools.

• Participate in on-call rotation as a first contact for owned applications.

• Mentor team members and promote new technologies, methodologies, and processes.

• Analyze pricing, risk/reward, cost advantages, and resourcing to support technology improvements.

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience as a full-stack engineer developing large-scale, distributed web applications.

• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure services, especially AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions).

• Expertise in backend services using languages such as Python, Golang, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks like FastAPI, NodeJS, or Spring Boot.

• Proficiency in building user-facing applications with frameworks like React or Vue.

• Experience designing and managing APIs consumed by multiple teams using REST or GraphQL.

• Strong knowledge of decentralized version control systems like Git on platforms such as GitHub or GitLab.

• Skilled in containerized applications, particularly using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Jest, pytest, Playwright) and test-driven development practices.

• Hands-on experience mentoring engineers both technically and interpersonally.

• Excellent communication skills and openness to regular feedback.

Desired:

• Experience building and operating LLM- or ML-backed production systems.

• Ability to evaluate LLM outputs and system behavior.

• Experience with Open Search for ML-powered solutions.

• Knowledge of serverless and event-driven architectures.

• Background in accessible coding practices including semantic HTML, ARIA, and keyboard navigation.

• Experience with performance profiling tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus.

• Familiarity with cache management, content delivery, and edge application security using CDNs like Fastly or CloudFront.

• Working knowledge of relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) data modeling.

• Experience securing applications against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, and other vulnerabilities.

• Practice using Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Proficiency with GraphDB systems such as Neo4j or AWS Neptune.

• Experience appropriately leveraging AI tools like Claude or Codex in the software development lifecycle.

Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Employer-paid 10% retirement contribution.

• Paid parental and caregiver leave.

• 22 days of paid time off.

• 11 paid holidays.

• Up to 12 sick days.

• Wellness benefits.

Compensation:

• Starting salary range from $112,240.00 to $140,300.00.

• Starting pay depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Note:

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