Senior Software Engineer – Role and Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Coding – this is an individual contributor role
• Fixing bugs fast and focusing your time on creating elegant solutions to hard problems
• Technical leadership 
  • Lead planning activities to architect our platform for simplicity and scale
  • Mentor and grow other engineering team members to success
• Effectively collaborate in a cross-functional product team including perspectives from engineering, design, and customer success.
• Estimate effort and complexity of work and breakdown large requests into smaller units of work
• Translate customer and business requirements into technical solutions
• Investigate emerging technologies, evaluate based on current architecture, and incorporate into the product using agile methodologies.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for innovative changes and improvements

You’ll love this role if you…

• Are passionate about education, learning, and personal growth
• Enjoy the challenge of coding and architecting solutions to hard problems
• Want your work to make a big impact for learners across the country
• Care deeply about using technology to create an impossibly simple experience for customers and students
• Hold yourself and your work to a high standard that can be an example for others
• Are excited about being an early part of a rapidly growing team

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, working in a team of multiple engineers
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Fluency with:
  • Full stack development
  • MVC architecture
  • Command line (Linux or macOS)
  • Version control systems
• Experience leading and architecting:
  • Complex relational databases
  • Automated testing environments
  • RESTful APIs / web services
• Excitement to work in a team environment to achieve aggressive goals
• A passion to work at a startup company and make a big impact

Our Tech Stack

• PHP
• MySQL
• Javascript
• RESTful APIs
• AWS
• GitHub
• Stripe

How we Work

• Remote-first team that gets together in person 4-6 times per year
• Collaborative, cross-functional product team including perspectives from engineering, design, and customer success.
• Agile process with 2-week sprints and daily deployment
• Our company operates on the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) so that we can focus more on achieving our mission and less on re-inventing business processes.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• SIMPLE IRA
• 3 weeks of paid vacation
• 2 weeks of paid sick time
• Paid holidays
• Unique education stipend: buy books, classes, videos, etc. — just learn something new!

To apply, send your cover letter and resume to COO, Matt James via jobs@coursestorm.com with the subject line: Senior Software Engineer