Senior Software Engineer, Guild Education
$150-180k
+ Stock options
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Be an early applicant
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-180k
+ Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
- Experience with AWS services (Lambda, Serrverless, Glue, API Gateway, CDK/AWS IaC)
- Knowledge of ETL best practices, PySpark, OpenAPI Spec, GraphQL
- Familiarity with Integration engineering & IPaaS tools such as SnapLogic
- Production experience in a AWS micro-service environment
- Ability to write simple, clean, and maintainable code
- Strong opinions, loosely held
- Willingness to take calculated risks and bring vision to your team and Guild
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement
- A passion for Guild’s mission & long-term vision
What the job involves
- Guild is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to help scale our onboarding and data ingestion processes for new and existing client data integrations. In this role, you will build features to enhance the flexibility and reliability of our client integration processing
- We are looking for a product-minded Software Engineer to collaborate with stakeholders across Guild in developing software that enables our Employer Partners to empower their employees to maximize the benefits of Guild's affordable education programs and coaching services
- You will be a crucial teammate on day one, developing high-quality software capable of efficiently scaling alongside our ongoing business expansion
- Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
- Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company
- Design and implement highly scalable and maintainable ETL systems for SFTP and API-based integrations, and beyond
- Ensure simplicity and flexibility in system architecture
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, designers, internal operations staff, and customer technical teams
- Craft clean, thoroughly tested, and reusable code to develop high-quality software that scales with our business group
- Engage senior/staff engineers to design resilient, decoupled solutions based on domain
- Guide the team in identifying, understanding, and refining the product’s requirements
- Spec solutions, test and resolve issues, and deploy quality software to production
- Improve processes & tools to enhance dev speed, deployment, quality, and security
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, planning, and retrospectives
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation 24/7 monitoring production system alerts & triage
- Work with the product team to ensure project plans, stories, and estimates are accurate
- Maintain existing Guild software and integrate multiple internal services and APIs
- Vested interest in issue resolution & sustainability of the team's software products
- Participate in support, data quality issue resolution, and root cause analysis
- Contribute to test automation and quality controls
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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