Software Engineer II, Engineering

Software Engineer II As a Software Engineer II on an engineering squad at Ellevation, you'll build and operate features that directly shape how educators manage English Learner programs across thousands of school districts. You'll work across a full‑stack environment — React on the frontend, C#/.NET Core or Python on the backend — and you'll own your work end‑to‑end: design, build, ship, and keep it running. At this level, you are expected to bring a proposed path when you surface a problem, close open questions by building rather than debating, and leave the systems you touch in better shape than you found them. You will also contribute to how the squad works through design discussions, code review, and maintaining the day‑to‑day quality bar the team holds together. About You You bring a proposed path along with the problem — framing a solution quickly moves things forward. When something is blocking the team, you build the smallest thing that answers the question rather than debating it. You share real opinions in design discussions on tradeoffs, complexity, and risk. You take code review seriously in both directions, asking until you understand before approving. You stay engaged past the merge on cleanup, follow‑up bugs, and alerts that trace back to your ship. You use AI tools to move faster and read every item that goes out under your name. What You’ll Do Build and ship product features across React, .NET Core/Python, and supporting infrastructure — from design through operation. Bring concrete tradeoffs to design discussions — performance, complexity, blast radius, time‑to‑ship — so decisions are based on real costs. Close open questions by spiking, scripting, or prototyping, keeping the team moving instead of waiting for answers that could be found by building. Operate what you build: instrument it, respond to alerts, and close the loop on issues that surface after release. Review code thoughtfully — ask questions, push for improvements when they matter, and welcome the same on your own PRs. Pick up improvements you notice along the way — tech debt, alerting gaps, missing tests — without waiting to be asked. What You’ll Bring 2–4 years shipping production software, with enough end‑to‑end ownership to know what "done" actually means. Fluency in at least one frontend JS framework (React/Vue/Angular) and a strongly typed language (C#/.NET/Python/Go), and comfort learning across the stack where the work takes you. Experience naming tradeoffs concretely rather than just expressing preferences; your perspective has shaped design decisions. Engineering habits — testing, observability, careful review — that reflect care for the long term. Some experience operating what you've built: debugging production and knowing good instrumentation. Some experience with how code gets deployed and runs in production — you understand the path from commit to live. Our Tech Stack Frontend: React (with ongoing migration from legacy systems) Backend: C#/.NET Core (and some .NET Framework legacy) or Python Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker Developer Experience: Internal tooling, repo templates, CI/CD workflows, container‑based dev We don’t expect you to know everything on day one — what matters most is your ability to learn, collaborate, and lead through change. Salary $125,000 - $145,000 a year, commensurate with experience. Benefits Medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance; 401(k) plan with employer match up to 50% on the first 7% of your contribution; flexible paid time off plus 10 company holidays; generous parental leave; backup childcare or eldercare options; and other employee perks. Equal Opportunity Employer Ellevation, under Curriculum Associates, LLC, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, or any other protected category. #J-18808-Ljbffr Ellevation