Sr Backend Software Engineer

Vista Higher Learning • Boston, MA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this Senior Software Engineer role, you will join our talented and collaborative Development team, in designing, building, and scaling backend systems while integrating AI‑powered capabilities. You will play a key role in shaping our innovative, industry‑leading language education products for the K‑12 and Higher Education markets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years of experience as a Senior Software Engineer working with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
• Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
• Strong understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM APIs
• 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

• Backend/Full stack development and AI Tooling experience
• Knowledge around LLM evaluation and MLOps practices
• Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
• Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Experience building/deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
• A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level