[Remote] Sr Backend/Full stack Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vista Higher Learning is a company focused on developing culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities. They are seeking a Senior Backend/Full Stack Software Engineer to join their Development team, where the role involves participating in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle, optimizing performance through testing, and collaborating with team members to deliver efficient projects.
Responsibilities
- Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Perform tests to optimize performance
- Write clean code to develop functioning web applications
- Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7+ years of Senior level Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
- Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
- Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols
- Advanced working knowledge of *nix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line
- Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge
- Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub
- Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
- Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately
- Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
- Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
- Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
- A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
- Experience working with LLMs and AI tooling for developers
- Experience with Ruby highly preferred
- Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry
- Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance
Benefits
- Life/health/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Educational assistance
- Commuter pass subsidies
- Generous employee referral bonuses
- PTO
- Paid holidays
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