Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer, Instructure
$165-185k
Dynamic learning management platform
Be an early applicant
Dynamic learning management platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$165-185k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help learners thrive in tomorrow's landscape by delivering a future-ready ecosystem.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time in TypeScript and Node.js
- Deep experience with Next.js (server components, server actions, caching) and Tailwind in production
- Proven use of both Vercel and AWS (serverless and dockerized services)
- Strong Postgres chops (schema design, query tuning, migrations; understanding of transactions and isolation)
- Real-world experience operating multi-region/global apps (CDN/edge, geo-routing, blue/green & canary, DR)
- Security mindset (authN/Z, OAuth/OIDC, secrets, OWASP), plus familiarity with FERPA/GDPR implications in edtech
- Excellent communication, product sense, and a bias for shipping
Desirable
- Experience with Canvas LTI/OAuth integrations
- Exposure to Drizzle/Prisma, tRPC, or GraphQL
- Prior work with edge runtimes (Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers) and background jobs/queues
- Experience with analytics/feature flags (e.g., LaunchDarkly) and cost/perf tuning at scale
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to lead development of modern web experiences and services used globally by educators and learners
- You’ll work across the stack from elegant, accessible UIs to resilient serverless backends and you’ll help us scale safely across regions and time zones
- Design, build, and own production features in Node.js, TypeScript, Express, Next.js (App Router), and Tailwind CSS
- Develop serverless/edge APIs and jobs on Vercel and AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, EventBridge/Queues)
- Develop Node.js dockerized API services
- Model data and ship performant Postgres queries (migrations, indexing, connection mgmt, query optimization)
- Architect multi-region deployments: traffic routing, latency budgets, failover/DR, config & secrets, and rollout strategies
- Build for international audiences: i18n/l10n pipelines, time-zone correctness, and data-residency considerations
- Instrument services with logs/metrics/traces (OpenTelemetry or similar) and drive incident-ready observability
- Champion accessibility (WCAG-aware UI), testing (unit/integration/e2e), CI/CD, and code reviews
- Mentor peers, collaborate with Product/Design, and contribute to technical direction
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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