Software Engineer, Instructure
$128-140k
Dynamic learning management platform
Be an early applicant
Dynamic learning management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128-140k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help learners thrive in tomorrow's landscape by delivering a future-ready ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- A minimum of three years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Professional working experience with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript)
- Professional working experience with modern backend technologies (Ruby on Rails, Node)
- Professional working experience with relational databases (Postgres, schema design, query tuning, migrations, understanding of transactions and isolation)
- Ability to contribute to a feature's development from start to finish, including asking questions to clarify requirements, working across disciplines, participating in solution scoping, and implementing changes in your area
- Strong focus on problem-solving, coupled with the judgment to seek assistance or ask questions effectively and at the right time
- Demonstrated ability to learn and grow based on mentorship, realtime feedback, and past experiences
- Be comfortable participating in an on-call rotation (or similar incident response process) for the services you own
- Integrate AI tools (such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini) into every aspect of your work, including new feature development, incident response, and investigations
Desirable
- Experience using AWS or similar technologies in a large, scalable, production environment
- Experience with Rails in production: RESTful APIs, ActiveRecord, complex data modeling, and background job processing
- 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)
- Experience with EdTech standards: LTI 1.3, OneRoster, Canvas LMS integrations, etc
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Engage team at Instructure, you will contribute to the development of modern web experiences and services used globally by educators, learners, administrators, and partners
- You will work closely with other members of the team across the stack to deliver quality solutions that meet the needs of our customers within Canvas LMS and adjacent services
- Your solutions will directly enhance the user experience for millions of educators and learners globally, furthering Instructure's mission to simplify learning and personal development
- Own the technical design, planning, and end-to-end implementation of new features within the Engage team’s services, collaborating with senior engineers on complex architectural decisions
- Work collaboratively with a distributed, remote team, using Agile methodologies
- Co-create across disciplines working closed with Product, Design, and other area expert teams across the organization
- Follow and promote accessibility (WCAG aware UI), testing (unit/integration/e2e), CI/CD, and participate in code reviews
- Build for international audiences: i18n/l10n pipelines, time-zone correctness, and data residency considerations
- Instrument services with logs/metrics/traces (Observe or similar) and contribute to incident ready observability
- Continuously improve by learning and sharing new methodologies, technologies and skills
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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