As a Staff Engineer, you'll shape technical direction, lead teams, mentor engineers, and drive architectural decisions while developing full-stack applications.
About Apptegy
Apptegy partners with school districts to simplify communication, elevate their brand, and empower every role in their organization. We put our clients front and center in everything we do because it's our clients who are most passionate about education. We build our products and features to make everyone in a school community better communicators. Ask any of our clients about us, and they will tell you that Apptegy’s people are thoughtful and high-performing. Our fast response time and quality support mean school leaders, teachers, and staff always have a partner ready to help provide a solution. Joining Apptegy is your opportunity to be on a high-performing team and contribute to our growth and your own.
Why You’ll Love This Job
As a Staff Engineer at Apptegy, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our products and driving key engineering initiatives. You will combine your deep technical expertise with leadership skills to mentor other engineers, promote best practices, and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality solutions. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems, influence architectural decisions, and make a significant impact on our team and our customers.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain complex full-stack applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
- Drive architectural decisions and promote best practices across the engineering organization.
- Mentor and coach senior and junior engineers, helping them to improve their technical skills and grow their careers.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define and deliver high-impact solutions.
- Identify and address technical challenges, proposing innovative solutions and driving their implementation.
- Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality and adherence to standards.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes and tools.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential impact on our products.
What You'll Bring
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a focus on full-stack development.
- Strong full-stack proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Ruby).
- Deep understanding of front-end technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js) and back-end frameworks (Ruby on Rails).
- Experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and lead technical discussions.
- Experience mentoring and coaching other engineers.
- A passion for learning and continuous improvement.
- A customer-centric mindset and a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
What Helps You Stand Out
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Experience with database technologies (e.g., PostgresSQL, Redis).
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Experience in the education technology sector.
Apptegy will not consider remote candidates from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington for this opening.
Why You'll Love Working With Us
We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that you’ve had (and one that sets you up for future success). We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience, that’s why we provide:
--Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
--Retirement 401(k) with employer match
--Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
--Mental Health Reimbursement
--Unlimited paid time off including seasonal (December) company-wide time off
--Paid parental and medical leave
We value thoughtfulness and high performance in all candidates as we progress through the interview stages. If the challenge of building a rapidly growing company excites you as much as it does us, we hope you’ll consider joining us.
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Apptegy is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Top Skills
Angular
AWS
Azure
Ci/Cd
Docker
GCP
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Postgressql
Python
React
Redis
Ruby
Ruby On Rails
Vue
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