Staff Software Engineer, RedShelf
Digital transitions for publishers, schools, and businesses
Open for applications
Digital transitions for publishers, schools, and businesses
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help publishers, schools, and businesses transition effortlessly to more affordable and efficient digital textbooks and course materials.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of software development experience
- 7+ years of experience developing complex, product-focused codebases
- 3+ years of experience leading or mentoring other engineers
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines, using observability tools and modern typescript automation testing tooling and frameworks
- Real-world experience developing with modern programming languages, preferably with Typescript
- Proven track record of building successful full-stack applications, products, or platforms
- Self-sufficient and highly motivated, self-directed and possesses high energy and a passion for RedShelf's mission
Desirable
- Comfortable using GenAI tools to assist in daily engineering activities
- Knowledge and appreciation of the advances in higher educational software, course materials, and digital publishing is a plus
- Background and/or experience in educational technology and/or publishing
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer with strong architecture expertise and a solid background in designing testable and reliable systems to join our fast-paced, mission-centered team
- The ideal candidate will have a unique blend of technical expertise, insatiable curiosity, and an analytical mindset
- This person should be comfortable working independently, providing technical leadership, and mentoring other engineers in the architecture, design, development, and testing of mission-critical services, applications, and infrastructure layers
- Experience with TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or PostgreSQL is helpful to succeed quickly in this role
- The Staff Software Engineer will have a significant impact on our business success as well as the success of millions of university students
- Own the design and implementation of large-scale systems
- Communicates technical strategy across teams
- Design and implement comprehensive test strategies to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end testing
- Mentor fellow engineers
- Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)
- Write quality product, system development code and tests
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback
- Track and triage production and system issues. Debug/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on service operations and quality
- Work with architects to develop technical requirements and broad system design
Our take
In the age of remote education and the digitization of learning resources, RedShelf is an EdTech company that helps publishers, educational institutions and students migrate their reading materials online. Addressing the need for more affordable educational resources, RedShelf eases the transition without scrimping on quality.
Through an online rental and purchase marketplace, RedShelf provides students with digital textbooks and integrates them into university systems through its RedShelf Manager platform. With over 10,000 publishing partnerships, RedShelf has a client base of almost 2000 institutions and businesses.
Named Publishing Software of the Year by EdTech Breakthrough and Best of 2021 by the Tech & Learning Awards, the company has raised more than $48 million in funding and is considered a leader in the sector. 2022 into 23 has seen rapid growth for the company and a number of key new hires.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2023
$15m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$10m
LATE VC
Total funding: $58.1m
Company benefits
- Medical (two plans including an HSA with RedShelf contribution), Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life, AD&D, Disability, and Accident Insurance
- FSA - Including Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter/Parking
- Paid Parental Leave
- Generous Vacation Packages
- Paid Sick Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Semi-Annual Incentive Pay Program
Company values
- Betterment
- Enthusiasm
- Drive
- Ingenuity
- Collaboration
- Accountability
Company HQ
Near North, Chicago, IL
Articles
Leadership
Greg Fenton
(CEO)Previously Regional Sales Manager at Crest Pontoons, Graduate of Management and Public Speaking at Miami University.
Timothy Haitaian
(Advisor)Previously Audit Associate at KPMG. Currently Board Member at Virtual Science Teachers and Faculty Associate at W. P. Carey School of Business.
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