Senior Software Engineer
At InStride, we’re pioneering a new approach to workforce education. Our mission is to enable employers to provide life-changing education to their employees in partnership with the highest-quality global academic institutions. We unlock business and social impact to transform companies and people for the future.
We believe that a company’s richest resource is their employees, and that investments in people yield the highest returns for individuals, businesses, and society as a whole. That’s why every InStride employee is eligible to enroll in 1,700+ online certificate and degree programs through our Step Forward program. Unlike traditional tuition reimbursement programs, InStride covers your tuition upfront, regardless of your course of study, degree type, or school. The Step Forward program, along with InStride’s best-in-class employee benefits, are available to all employees from the day they join InStride.
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Role Overview
Reporting to the Manager of Engineering, this role will work with a mixed team of on-site and off-site software engineers to turn our Product roadmap into reality.
Responsibilities
- Work as part of an agile team to develop new features and functionality.
- Ensure use of engineering best practices for development, security, accessibility, compliance, performance, HADR, etc.
- Mentor junior engineers and work collaboratively to develop and build upon the skills of all team members.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve high-quality, elegant solutions.
- Constantly apply best practices and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code.
- Design and develop automated tests.
- Follow and execute the full software development lifecycle.
- Protect operations by keeping information and data confidential.
Ideal Profile
- 5+ years software engineering experience delivering large scale, global, high traffic, and highly available consumer-facing web applications and mobile apps
- 5+ years experience delivering projects using agile methodologies
- 5+ years experience collaborating with and working in cross-functional teams including product, user experience, project management, etc.
- 2+ years leading or mentoring other developers on the team
- Experience delivering SaaS solutions for large enterprise customers
- Experience leveraging a variety of open source technologies, working with cloud services, leveraging modern UI frameworks (Angular, React), backend (RESTful APIs, Node.js, Python, microservices, serverless, etc)
- Be able to lead and be a technical subject matter expert for platform architecture discussions and decisions
- Strong process orientation and attention to detail
- Proactively communicate and manage expectations with your leader and team
- Excited by the challenge of building a world-class business that delivers not only high revenue growth and compelling ROI, but also has a meaningful impact on society
- Exposure to higher education institutions through direct experience and/or passion for the education space
- Comfort with ambiguity and a “no job too small” startup mentality
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent relevant work experience
InStride is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, medical condition, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please discuss your requested accommodation with our HRBP.
Effective November 1, 2021, all new hires must be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus unless they have been granted a reasonable accommodation. If you are offered employment, this requirement must be met by your date of hire, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved by the People & Talent team in writing.
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