Senior Software Engineer

Great Purpose. Great People. Great Opportunities.

At Imagine Learning we empower potential by creating educational solutions that inspire boundless possibilities for every student, every day. We are passionate about innovating together to support educators in creating those special moments when students experience the joy of learning at its best.

We empower our team through a strong culture focused on career growth and development, flexible work arrangements, interesting and meaningful work, and supportive and connected colleagues. The majority of our employees enjoy the opportunity to work remotely from home within the US, or in a hybrid capacity in our offices in Tempe, AZ (headquarters), Austin, TX, Petaluma, CA, Rock Rapids, IA, Grand Rapids, MI, or Bloomington, MN.

Imagine Your Impact.

The Senior Software Engineer builds data pipelines, APIs, and reporting frontends for Teachers and Administrators. This role requires technical leadership, a good eye for systems architecture design, and the ability to develop across the entire technology stack. The right candidate will bring knowledge of best practices around engineering and component reuse but will also be looking for opportunities to learn and grow their own career. The Senior Software Engineer works remotely on a distributed software development team and requires the communication skills necessary to thrive in that environment.

Position Type: This is a regular, full-time position.

Compensation: Base pay is anticipated to be between $106,557 and $140,000 per year. Eligible employees may also receive incentive/commission/annual bonus pay based on individual and/or company performance. Compensation may vary based on factors such as, but not limited to, individual skills, experience, training, education/certifications, geographic location, internal equity, and local market conditions.

Location: In this US-based position your location will be remote from your home office.

Benefits: Eligible employees may receive the following benefits-

• 401k plan with a company match
• Flexible work schedules and work from home opportunities that foster work/life balance
• Employee referral bonuses

Additional benefits available to eligible full-time and partial full-time employees (partial full-time employees receive prorated benefits), include:

• Multiple health, dental, and vision plans, including medical plans with zero employee premiums
• 16 paid holidays, which include 2 floating holidays and a winter shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day
• Paid Time Off
• Maternity and Fertility benefits
• Paid bonding leave when a new child joins your family
• Life and short and long-term disability insurance
• Pre-tax savings plans
• Paid volunteer hours and annual giving events
• A wide variety of professional development programs, including tuition reimbursement

Envision Your Experience.

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Develop Front-End software to add impactful new features for teachers, students, parents, and administrative users.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Review and debug code.
• Write unit, functional, and integration tests.
• Collaborate with other engineering, product, and UX teams and vendors to fix and improve products.
• Build common components that can be used across products.
• Create and enforce engineering best practices in areas such as coding, testing, patterns, reuse, and more.
• Document development phases and monitor systems.
• Ensure software is up to date with latest technologies.
• Ship features often to production.
• Break large projects down into smaller, easier to ship features.
• Frame issues in ways that help the team and company clarify goals and approaches.
• Open new approaches, ways of thinking, and opportunities that contribute to our collective mission.
• Review pull requests and give constructive criticism in a timely manner.
• Help others faced with technical hurdles.
• Understand and effectively communicate the impact that new decisions and technical hurdles have on work duration.
• Help onboard new employees.
• Other duties as required.

Share Your Expertise.

Experience, education, and qualifications essential for success in this role, include:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field and extensive experience in web application engineering: designing, programming, securing, testing, reviewing, releasing, and maintaining; or an acceptable combination of education and experience.
• 4+ years of full stack engineering experience with an object-oriented language such as C# and Java, as well as JavaScript frameworks such as React.
• Experience building applications that make use of Cloud technologies such as AWS.
• Experience in asynchronous, event-driven systems a plus.
• Thorough knowledge of GitHub or similar source code repository and version control platform.
• Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude.
• Self-managed; doesn't require management or significant direct involvement of others to move personal responsibilities forward.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.  Must be able to communicate complex information to team, product management, and other stakeholders in the company.
• Knowledge of tools and technologies that successful teams are using to help maintain and make teams more efficient.
• Comfortable with delivering features in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience working across regions with teammates in different time zones would be beneficial.
• Passion for collaboration and team unity, and continuous learning.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB+).

Diversity and inclusivity strengthen our Imagine Learning team, enrich our lives, and help us design equitable educational experiences where learners see themselves and can also learn about people, cultures, experiences, and perspectives different from their own. We strive to hire, develop, and retain talented people who represent the diversity of the districts we serve. By developing initiatives that focus on the needs, expectations, and lives of our people, we’ve created an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential.

Imagine Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, transgender status (including whether or not you are transitioning or have transitioned), sexual orientation, marital status, religion (including religion dress and grooming practices), age 40 and over, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information (including results of genetic testing and characteristics), veteran and/or military status, or service in the military, and any other basis or status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. 

To all recruitment agencies: Imagine Learning does not accept agency resumes. Please do not submit candidates for consideration via our online application system, to Imagine Learning employees, or to any other organization location. Imagine Learning is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.