Software Engineer III

Role Description

The Assess Engineering team is looking for experienced, smart, and adaptable Software Engineer III to join the engineering team. The key traits are collaboration and thought leadership through problem solving. This individual must exhibit independent creativity, a curiosity to research new technologies and methodologies, and a pervasive desire to dig into complex technical issues while respecting timelines and team commitments. This position will primarily focus on building the next set of platform capabilities in our K-12 Assessment platform.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What You’ll Do:

• Use your interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership in engineering and business.
• Analyze business requirements and identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, etc.
• Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet the business need.
• Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively.
• Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable APIs and data-centric backend processes.
• Use modern AI tools like Github Copilot to accelerate your work.
• Work on a mix of projects on existing codebases and new codebases.
• Have a “shift-left” mentality toward testing – focus on automated testing written alongside the code rather than manual testing later.

Our stack includes:

• API: Koa (Node), Go
• Frontend: Angular, React
• Infrastructure: Helm, Terraform
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Github Actions, Docker, Kubernetes
• Amazon Web Services – EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda and others
• Github
• JIRA, Confluence, Slack

Qualifications

• Demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product & engineering team.
• 3+ years creating modern web applications with API backends, event-driven systems.
• Curiosity about building products that use LLM-based AI technologies.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced software release environment, delivering production-grade software daily for a system with millions of users.
• Experience contributing to the full software development life cycle – including writing application code, writing unit/integration/automation tests, documentation, and performance engineering.
• Excitement about building scalable, performant APIs and intuitive front ends.

Requirements

• Applied knowledge of the following:
• RESTful Web Services (experience producing and consuming REST services).
• Frontend development with tools such as Angular.
• Relational database design concepts (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Application Testing (unit, integration, performance, end to end) for full user journeys.
• Cloud Technologies (preferably Amazon Web Services – EKS, RDS, S3, others).
• Code Quality and Code Review.
• Ability to write adhoc SQL queries and scripts to analyze usage and performance data.
• Some understanding of the following:
• Build/deploy tools (Github Actions, npm).
• Source/Version control systems (Git).

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is between $97,200 - $150,000 annually.
• Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• A full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.