Technical Lead for Scalable Systems

About the Product

We aim to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. Our platform offers in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, along with 140 million reviews and ratings. We provide powerful search tools that help millions of people find the right school for them.

About the Role

We're seeking a driven, resourceful, and experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join our growing product team. As a senior member, you'll design, build, and enhance services and user-facing features across our platform, focusing on reliability, maintainability, scalability, and user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable full-stack applications and features using modern tech stack.
• Improve user experience by collaborating with designers to implement intuitive interfaces and finding ways to reduce user pain points.
• Build and enhance microservices, ensuring reliability, maintainability, and scalability within distributed systems.
• Contribute to automated testing strategies and participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality products.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA analysts, and other engineers within an Agile development framework.

You may be a good fit for this role if you:

• Possess a strong passion for coding and creating scalable systems and fantastic user experiences.
• Embrace a growth mindset by continuously questioning established ideas and learning from your experiences.
• Exhibit humility and a collaborative spirit, fostering a positive work environment while valuing the contributions of others without ego.
• Value autonomy and empowerment to make your own decisions.

Onboarding Process

• Attend onboarding sessions to better understand internal processes and learn about the company.
• Pair with other engineers to learn more about the tech stack, products, and development standards and processes.
• Familiarize yourself with automated testing platforms and begin to contribute to test coverage.
• Collaborate with product team members to implement and ship small features and functionality.

Within 3 Months

• Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback to other engineers.
• Gain exposure to the platform's underlying infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Understand the high-level architecture of the website and back-end services.
• Begin shipping more complex user-facing code.

Within 6 Months

• Grow as a contributing member of a product team, providing input and insight to the rest of the team on challenges and feasibility of proposed development.
• Confidently implement new functionality and fix bugs across the stack.
• Work with members of the tech and product teams to distill user stories or business requirements into technical requirements/design.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Typescript and React.
• Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages (Go, C/C++, C#, Java, Ruby, etc.).
• Experience with one or more SQL databases.
• Strong understanding of common data structures and design patterns.
• Experience working with a microservice architecture and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in using unit testing frameworks.
• A dedication to developing clear, reliable, and maintainable code.
• Proficiency with common git operations.
• Strong communication skills, effectively conveying ideas to both technical and non-technical partners.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.

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