Senior Full Stack

About the Product

Product is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply. Niche is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day. We want Niche to be a place where people truly enjoy working and can thrive professionally.

We’re looking for a driven, resourceful, and experienced Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to join one of our growing product teams. As a senior member of the team, you will be tasked with designing, building, and enhancing services and user-facing features across our platform, with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, scalability, and user experience. You’ll leverage your expertise spanning the entire stack, from database interactions to front-end libraries, contributing significantly to our technical direction and mentoring other engineers.

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable full-stack applications and features across a modern tech stack, including TypeScript, React, Go, and Postgres.
• Focus on improving our user experience, collaborating with designers to implement intuitive interfaces, and finding creative ways to reduce user pain points.
• Build and enhance microservices, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and scalability within our distributed systems.
• Ensure the quality of our products remains high by contributing to automated testing strategies and participating actively in code reviews.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, QA analysts, and other engineers within an Agile development framework.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, identifying and driving improvements in our processes, architecture, and technology stack.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a collaborative environment and sharing your expertise.
• Distill user stories or business requirements into technical requirements and robust technical designs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a 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.

• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• PTO and flexible work schedule.
• Personal laptop.
• Health and wellness package.
• English classes package.