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
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- 2+ years hands-on experience utilizing SQL databases
- 2+ years hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure
- Ideally AWS 2+ years hands-on experience working in an IaC environment (Ex: CloudFormation, TerraForm or Kubernetes)
- Interest or experience in functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc
- Strong knowledge of a scripting language such as Python, shell, etc
- Good experience with logging and reporting systems (Splunk, Datadog, etc)
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
- Automating anything that you have to do more than once
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and talented Senior Engineer in the Platform Team to help the transition from traditional ops to a platformcentric model
- Play a key role in an impact driven culture and apply your expertise and creativity to make our team and company better. You will help shape how we continue to build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the platform vision
- Design infrastructure tools and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
- Manage CI/CD pipelines, constantly improve reliability, speed, and efficiency
- Explore and forecast infrastructure needs in our fast-growing SaaS environment
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to creatively resolve infrastructure needs
- Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second
- The department is currently 14 engineers, organized into tightly knit teams that routinely collaborate
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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