Senior Software Engineer

Renaissance Learning is a global pre-K–12 education technology company that provides solutions for personalized learning and student growth. The Senior Software Engineer will help build the Navigators team’s shared discovery layer across four mature products, designing service contracts, enabling search and content retrieval, maintaining delivery infrastructure, and advancing engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design and own the contracts between the Libraries and the four products — OpenAPI interfaces, 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 and maintain continuous delivery pipelines 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

Requirements:

• Substantial professional experience building and operating production backend services
• Strong TypeScript, or strong proficiency in 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, and testing against them
• Cloud operations depth — you can design infrastructure, not only consume it, and you write infrastructure as code (we use Terraform on AWS)
• Release engineering depth — you have built and maintained continuous 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
• 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