Software Engineer, SchooLinks

• If you thrive with real ownership, love solving hard data problems, and want your work to have a direct impact on students’ futures, this role is for you
• This role requires a strong individual contributor who can own the full lifecycle — design, build, test, document, and maintain— without a team around them. You’re a strong fit if you bring:
• 4+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on API integrations, data pipelines, or platform engineering — ideally with examples of work you owned solo from design through production
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and OAuth — you've designed and debugged integrations end-to-end
• Proficiency in Python, Pandas. Ideally have some exposure to Django as wel
• Experience with ETL patterns, data transformation, and sync strategies — including handling schema mismatches and real-time vs. batch tradeoffs
• Experience building and owning testing infrastructure for integrations — you write the tests yourself and treat them as a first-class part of the work, not an afterthought
• Exceptional written communication — you document as you go, write technical specs before you build, and ensure that internal and external stakeholders can understand your architecture and documentation
• A self-directed working style — you can take a problem from ambiguous requirements to a shipped, documented, production-ready system without needing someone else to drive the process
• Comfortable using AI coding tools as part of your daily workflow — we’re a Claude shop, but experience with any AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) counts

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Software Engineer to own our data migration and integration infrastructure — end to end. This is a greenfield, individual contributor role: you’ll be the sole engineer driving this work, which means you’ll move from blank page to production on your own
• You’ll own everything from architecture and design through implementation, testing, documentation, and long-term maintenance. Our first major integration is with Slate (by Technolutions), a leading CRM used by college admissions offices — but this role will grow into a full integration platform as SchooLinks expands its partner ecosystem
• As the product area you support grows, you’ll be well-positioned to move into management and leadership rules in the future
• Independently architect and implement bi-directional data integrations between SchooLinks and external platforms — starting with Slate (Technolutions)
• Design, build, test, and document RESTful API connections, webhooks, and OAuth/SSO flows to support secure, real-time data exchange — taking full ownership of each integration from technical spec through production deploy. You’ll build using Python code running in our Django service and Lambdas on AWS
• Design ETL pipelines to map and transform student data across different schemas, handling edge cases, conflict resolution, and idempotency
• Set up monitoring, alerting, and observability for every integration in production — then own ongoing maintenance, incident response, and iterative improvements as partner systems evolve
• Write the foundational documentation for this function — technical specs, API references, runbooks, and integration guides establishing the standard that future engineers will build on