Software Engineer, Instructure
$75-109k
Dynamic learning management platform
Open for applications
Dynamic learning management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$75-109k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help learners thrive in tomorrow's landscape by delivering a future-ready ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience with TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience using AWS for serverless and edge patterns (cold-start mitigation, concurrency, idempotency)
- Experience with SQL (schema design, query tuning, migrations, understanding of transactions and isolation)
- Experience with Rails in production: RESTful APIs, ActiveRecord, complex data modeling, and background job processing (Sidekiq or equivalent)
- Experience with testing and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Docker)
- Familiarity with operating multi-region/global apps (CDN/edge, geo routing, blue/green & canary, DR)
- Security mindset (OAuth/SAML, SSO, RBAC, OWASP awareness, PII handling, audit logging), plus familiarity with FERPA/GDPR implications in edtech
- Excellent communication, product sense, and a bias for shipping
Desirable
- Experience with EdTech standards: LTI 1.3, OneRoster, Canvas LMS integrations, or FERPA/COPPA compliance
- Exposure to modern frontend tools
- Experience with distributed processing patterns: idempotency, deduplication, rate limiting, and workflow coordination
What the job involves
- We're looking for a full-stack engineer to contribute to the development of modern web experiences and services used globally by partners, educators and learners
- You'll work across the stack from elegant, accessible React UIs to sophisticated Rails APIs and distributed processing systems. This person should be able to travel on occasion to meet with other team members in person
- Contribute to the design and build of production features in Rails, TypeScript, and React
- Implement serverless/edge APIs and jobs on AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, EventBridge/Queues)
- Collaborate on data modeling and ship performant Postgres queries (migrations, indexing, connection mgmt, query optimization)
- Build for international audiences: i18n/l10n pipelines, time-zone correctness, and data residency considerations
- Instrument services with logs/metrics/traces (OpenTelemetry or similar) and contribute to incident ready observability
- Follow and promote accessibility (WCAG aware UI), testing (unit/integration/e2e), CI/CD, and participate in code reviews
- Collaborate with peers, Product/Design, and contribute to technical discussions
Our take
Instructure is an education technology company, creator of the Canvas Learning Management Platform that allows schools to build digital learning environments that meet the needs of their institutions. The platform simplifies teaching, elevates learning, and eliminates the headaches of supporting and growing traditional learning technologies.
The Canvas platform has grown to become a key part of a large number of educational institutions, from pre-school to higher education. Meanwhile, the company has gone international and hit the $1 billion market cap, made a number of acquisitions and invested in R&D. In fact, much of Instructure's workforce is dedicated to R&D, which shows their focus on innovating.
Instructure was itself acquired in 2024 by KKR, which supports a broad-based equity ownership program for Instructure employees. With KKR's record of acquired companies, this is a promising development. And, as the company centres a future-oriented vision and brand strategy, it will be interesting to see what it does next.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2016
$4m
SERIES A
Aug 2015
$1.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Join a passionate community of educators and the people working to support them
- Access to a large course library, mentoring and coaching opportunities, and regular feedback
- Community engagement (partnerships, volunteering, free learning resources, and ongoing outreach efforts)
- Office culture that values outcomes and impact above all
- Equity and ownership programs give every employee a stake in our future
- Ownership, recognition, and celebrations of shared success
- Growth opportunities (we’re all about helping our people move into (and thrive in) new roles)
Company HQ
Cottonwood Heights, UT
Leadership
Steve Daly
(CEO)They have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MBA in Strategy and Finance with more than 20 years experience in hardware and software industries.
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