Senior Software Engineer

at Renaissance in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

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.

We are seeking an experienced and talented Senior Engineer in the Platform Team to help the transition from traditional ops to a platformcentric model. Play a key role in an impact driven culture and apply your expertise and creativity to make our team and company better. You will help shape how we continue to build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.

In this role as a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the platform vision

+ Design infrastructure tools and automated systems to support our distributed architecture

+ Manage CI/CD pipelines, constantly improve reliability, speed, and efficiency

+ Explore and forecast infrastructure needs in our fast-growing SaaS environment

+ Collaborate with other engineering teams to creatively resolve infrastructure needs

+ Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users, and 1000’s of requests per second

Environment & Team:

The department is currently 14 engineers, organized into tightly knit teams that routinely collaborate. This is a highly creative impact driven environment where you pull your own work. AWS, Postgres, Haskell with Yesod Framework, React, TypeScript in a heavy API environment with Infrastructure-as-Code deployments.

For this role as a Senior Software Engineer, you must have:

+ 5+ years of experience in software development

+ 2+ years hands-on experience utilizing SQL databases

+ 2+ years hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure

+ Ideally AWS 2+ years hands-on experience working in an IaC environment (Ex: CloudFormation, TerraForm or Kubernetes)

+ Interest or experience in functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc.

+ Strong knowledge of a scripting language such as Python, shell, etc

+ Good experience with logging and reporting systems (Splunk, Datadog, etc)

Bonus Points:

+ BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both.

+ Outstanding written and verbal communication skills are preferred.

+ Thinking like an owner

+ Drive for results

+ Communicating with honesty, candor, and respect

+ Automating anything that you have to do more than once

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: $109,500 to $150,550 This range is based on national market data and may vary by location.

Benefits for eligible employees include:

+ World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth

+ Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts

+ 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match

+ Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off

+ 12 Paid Holidays

+ Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program

+ Tuition Reimbursement

+ Life & Disability Insurance

+ Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

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!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition (TATeam@renlearnCRM.onmicrosoft.com) .

EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

For information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com/