Senior Software Engineer

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide. Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve. Job Description As a Senior Software Engineer you will be one of the founding engineers on the Navigators team within Teacher & Learning Explorations . You will work across the seam where four mature products meet one shared discovery layer: designing the contracts between them, packaging their capabilities so they can be composed, and making search and curation work as one experience rather than four. Y ou will be making it fast and intuitive for admins to govern and curate, for teachers to find and instruct, and for students to explore and grow their respective libraries. In this role, as a Senior Software Engineer you will: Design and own the contracts between theLibrariesand the four products —OpenAPIinterfaces, typed message schemas, and the versioning discipline that keeps breaking changes from becoming someone else's outage. Build the discovery layer — search, relevance, and retrieval across a large and heterogeneous content library. Create andmaintaincontinuousdeliverypipelines for code, infrastructure, configuration, and data. Evolve the engineering culture, standards, and best practices — security, governance,new ideas— within the team, and help us decide the stack questions that are still open. Qualifications For this role, you must have: Substantial professional experience building and operating production backend services . Strong TypeScript , or strongproficiencyin a comparably typed language and a genuine willingness to work in a strict-TypeScript codebase. Demonstrated ownership of API contracts in a multi-service system: designing them, versioning them, andtesting againstthem. Cloud operations depth — you can design infrastructure, not only consume it, andyou write infrastructure as code (we use Terraform on AWS ). Release engineering depth — you have built andmaintainedcontinuous delivery pipelines and reduced toil in build and release systems. An effective communicator who collaborates well with distributed engineering, product, and design teams, and can explain a technical trade-off to a non-technical audience. Experience mentoring engineers and raising the level of the people around you. Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience. Additional information All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Salary Range: The base range for this position is $109,500.00 - $150,550.00. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location. Benefits for eligible US employees include: Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off 12Paid Holidays Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program Tuition Reimbursement Life & Disability Insurance Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs Benefits listed apply to eligible U.S. employees in accordance with Renaissance’s benefits eligibility criteria. Contractor and other non‑employee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits. Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future! 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