Sr Backend/Full stack Software Engineer

Vista Higher LearningBoston, MA
1dHybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer here, you will join a Development team that is focused, professional and consistently driving innovation that shapes our industry‑leading digital language education products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 7+ years of Senior level Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
  • Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
  • Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols
  • Advanced working knowledge of nix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line.
  • Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge
  • Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub
  • Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
  • Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
  • Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
  • Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
  • A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
  • Experience working with LLMs and AI tooling for developers
  • Experience with Ruby highly preferred
  • Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry
  • Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance

Responsibilities

  • Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Perform tests to optimize performance
  • Write clean code to develop functioning web applications
  • Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects

Benefits

  • life/health/dental/vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • educational assistance
  • commuter pass subsidies
  • generous employee referral bonuses
  • PTO
  • paid holidays
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