Senior Software Engineer, Renaissance
$109.5-150.6k
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Educational assessment technology and solutions
Job no longer available
Educational assessment technology and solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$109.5-150.6k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for an engineering leader, someone who is as committed to collaboration and team improvement as they are to quality, maintainable code
- 5+ years experience working in software application development
- Object-oriented programming
- Experience developing a mainstream web development framework for JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
- Relational database querying using both SQL and GraphQL
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana and New Relic
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Experience developing enterprise-level web applications and RESTful APIs, using microservices and event-driven architectures
- Experience in .NET, Angular, Python, SQL, Snowflake
- Knowledge of DevOps processes and technologies around version control, test automation frameworks, continuous integration/deployment and production monitoring & support
- Experience working in a Lean/Agile/Scrum environment
Desirable
- BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are preferred
- Thinking like an owner
- Drive for results
- Communicating with honesty, candor, and respect
What the job involves
- As a senior engineer on Renaissance's Journeys teams, you'll be designing and building a product that helps teachers see a full picture of their students, identifying the best next skills for each student's unique growth needs and enabling them to assign that work quickly and easily
- We own and execute our features as a team, from the very first steps of the plan all the way through code deployment and beyond, creating our own alerting and monitoring and ensuring we understand how our code is performing at every step of the process
- Take on a role as a development leader in a remote agile team truly committed to collaboration, innovation, code quality, ownership, and team improvement
- Develop applications teachers and students use every day, built on modern tools and frameworks: Angular, .NET, Python, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake
- Build and troubleshoot infrastructure to host your applications in the AWS Cloud, using AWS Lambda, Batch, ECS, SNS, and SQS
- Get fast feedback on code changes, building and using a CI/CD build pipeline to deploy to production at will using Git, Docker, Terraform, Concourse, and LaunchDarkly
- Demonstrable skills in communication, collaboration, and critical thinking
- Create strong technical documentation and diagrams
Our take
Renaissance Learning is one of the largest U.S. providers and a global leader in reading, math, and assessment solutions for K-12 schools. Through acquisitions and development, Renaissance Learning is the parent company of a slew of educational companies, such as Nearpod, Illuminate Education, KeyPhonics, Schoolzilla, and more.
Used in 40,000 schools in more than 100 countries around the globe, the company powers some of the most recognizable assessment programs in education, such as Accelerated Reader (to support individual reading practice), myON (increasing students' access to high-quality reading materials), and myIGDIs (for accurate assessment of early learning).
Renaissance has a valuable reputation for being a company that truly addresses a range of educational needs faced by students by providing educators with the tools they need to help learners of all levels succeed. Its continuous growth within the space has the company well set to maintain a strong market share in an expanding and well-funded sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2014
$40m
LATE VC
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Tuition Assistance (Up to $5,250)
- Career Development Platform
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Well-being Program to Cultivate Healthy Habits
- Premium Subscription to Calm
- Up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave (6 weeks unpaid, 14 weeks paid)
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation Time Off
- Flexible Work Schedules
- Milk Stork: Breast Milk Delivery Service
- World Class Benefits -Medical, Dental, Vision
- Expert Second Opinion
- Community and Company Events
- Telemedicine
- Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Indemnity
- Short and Long Term Disability Options
- Weight Loss Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement and Investment Advice
- 401 (k) and Roth 401 (k)
- Health Savings Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Identity Monitoring Protection
- Life Insurance with Company-Paid Premium
- Voluntary Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, Children
- Employee Referral Program
- Commuter Benefits
Company HQ
Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Leadership
Chris Bauleke
(CEO)Former CEO of myON and Healthland. Was an SVP & General Manager at McKesson for 16 years before becoming President of Health Systems Performance Solutions.
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