Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, GoGuardian
$155-195k
+ Equity + Bonus
EdTech software for K-12 schools
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EdTech software for K-12 schools
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$155-195k
+ Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform education by helping schools implement, manage and understand technology.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional industry experience leading and coordinating complex, large-scale features
- Strong Node/Go experience with production-grade services, including concurrency patterns, gRPC, and microservices architecture
- Accomplished in building high-quality React applications with TypeScript, including data visualization and dashboards
- Experienced in designing and implementing APIs (gRPC, REST) and microservices that handle high throughput
- Proficient with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred) including complex query optimization, indexing strategies, and analytics workloads
- Familiar with caching strategies (Redis/Redis Cluster) and multi-tier caching architectures
- Has working knowledge of cloud services (AWS preferred: ECS, Aurora, Athena, S3, SQS)
- Has working knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration platforms (ECS, Kubernetes)
- Experience with modern React tooling and component libraries (Shadcn, React Router)
- Proven experience delivering highly performant and scalable features
- Proven advocate for engineering quality and building a thriving team culture
- Great communication skills and an ability to proactively identify problems and solutions across teams and stakeholders
- Eager to take initiative in a fast-paced, ever-changing, dynamic environment
- Fueled by the opportunity to truly impact the education landscape
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack to design and implement solid architectural solutions supporting our New Products Team
- With your passion for quickly solving problems and ability to implement high-quality code while continuously collaborating with other amazing team members, you will be building features that support schools in managing and the safety of their buildings and hallways
- You'll work across the full stack – from crafting intuitive and responsive React user interfaces to designing scalable Node/Go backend services that support hundreds of thousands of teachers and students
- Our Engineering team is built on a purpose-driven culture of collaboration, openness, trust, and transparency with amazing individuals who push the limits and think outside the box every day
- Design, build, and continually improve new products
- Develop high-performance backend services in Node/Go that facilitate realtime campus movement workflows
- Build intuitive, data-rich frontend experiences with React
- Design and implement gRPC and REST APIs for real-time data access and service-to-service communication
- Optimize SQL database schemas and queries for large-scale analytics workloads
- Build and maintain background workers for data aggregation and processing using asynchronous patterns
- Integrate with LLM/AI services for intelligent features like generative reporting and predictive scans
- Write high-quality, maintainable code with strong typing, comprehensive tests, and clear documentation
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for AWS services
- Mentor and coach developers, helping them improve and perfect their skills
- Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
Our take
GoGuardian provides filtering, classroom engagement and mental health tools for educators. This supports better classroom management, student engagement and online safety - without users having to rely on multiple platforms.
GoGuardian's product capabilities include real-time monitoring for students' device screens, a feature to identify at-risk students and single click tutoring support among others. The major questioning of the suite surrounds how student safety and privacy remain balanced, which is a challenge the company must continue to face.
Millions of students across over thousands of US school districts are served by GoGuardian's software. With schools increasingly turning towards digital education systems, the company continues to expand its services - for example with support for multi-platform school environments and a digital hall pass management system.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Apr 2014
$0.2m
ANGEL
Total funding: $200.2m
Company benefits
- Health insurance: 90% for you (100% HMO) and 50% for your dependents
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Comprehensive time-off package, including flexible time off, sick time, 13 company holidays, quarterly wellness days, and a paid year-end holiday break
- 24 hours and 7 days a week, free confidential services include personal coaching, counseling, self-care apps, and much more!
- Employee stock option
- Company-supported growth
- Paid parental leave for up to 14 weeks
- Company paid short and long-term disability
- A fertility and adoption program to help you support your family needs
- Relax, recharge, and refresh with weekly yoga classes and guided meditation
Company HQ
El Segundo, CA
Leadership
Advait Shinde
(Co-Founder & Chair)Worked at Google as an engineer, helping to launch key products such as Google Pay (formerly Google Wallet). Co-founded GoGuardian as CTO in 2014, becoming CEO in 2017 and Chair in 2024.
Rich Preece
(CEO)Previously COO at LegalZoom, SVP and US GM of QuickBooks by Intuit, and Senior Marketing Manager for the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing.
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