GoGuardian is on a mission to transform education by helping to protect students in the digital space from harmful and distracting content and supporting their mental health. We partner with schools to identify learning patterns and maximize the academic potential of every student. With GoGuardian, educators can engage students with more effective resources while also promoting online accessibility in the most applicable way for their school population.

While this job posting uses "El Segundo, CA" as the location, please note this role is currently being recruited for remote work or reporting to headquarters if within commuting distance.

As a Software Engineer, Backend for the Core Team at GoGuardian, you’ll help build, optimize and maintain our infrastructure and applications that support millions of students and educators every day. You will work on production code and build rich feature sets that support the complex problems in education. You’ll be a key member of our engineering team, helping to embody the principles of fluidity, critical thinking, innovation, and collaboration.

What You'll Do

• Build systems to solve new problems
• Display strong judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for delivering results
• Build, deploy and operate high-scale web applications
• Deliver on engineering challenges and understand existing codebases quickly
• Write high quality and maintainable code and own engineering initiatives
• Collaborate with different teams (QA, UX, etc.) to come up with effective and innovative solutions to problems
• Navigate dashboards and logs to efficiently pinpoint problem areas
• Document and diagram components and integration points of distributed systems
• Work effectively in an agile environment
• Learn and experiment with new technologies
• Effectively communicate and understand complex ideas with other engineers/non-engineers

Who You Are

• 5+ years of professional industry experience as a backend engineer in a distributed systems environment
• 3+ years experience in designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices
• Knowledge of at least one statically typed compiled language (preferably Golang)
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Amazon ECS
• Familiarity with a variety of database concepts such as NoSQL, column-stores, relational databases, and distributed databases
• Experience working with web applications
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment

What We Offer

• A varied and challenging role in a multinational and highly innovative company
• A robust benefits package including health insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, employee stock option plan, paid parental leave, 13 paid company holidays, and much more
• Development and further training opportunities for shaping and realizing your career goals
• Exceptional colleagues with a passion for EdTech

GoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. GoGuardian does not discriminate against employees, applicants, interns or volunteers on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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