Remote Software Engineer, Full Stack (Backend/Platform Heavy, Senior Level)

Summary

Join Avela, a Nobel Prize-winning edtech startup, as a Full Stack Software Engineer to help expand the platform and enhance user experience. As a senior developer with at least 5 years of full-time professional software development experience, you'll have an opportunity to influence the vision of the product and culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full time experience building software across the full stack but with an emphasis on building backend systems with complex authorization and data access needs
• Extensive experience in data modeling (bonus points for experience in highly configurable data models)
• Previous experience building and maintaining both serverless and container based cloud services with IaC (CDK, Terraform, SST etc)
• Startup or greenfield project experience
• Passion for education, equity, or social impact
• Entrepreneurial spirit and drive
• Growth mindset and desire to constantly improve
• Legal ability to work in the US, based in the USA

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to guide the design, development, and execution of the next generation of the Avela platform that deftly balances short term needs with concrete phases that build towards our future vision
• Be a product engineer - we all care deeply about the product experience and collaborate to build our roadmap and brainstorm ideas
• Help build how we build - as an early stage startup our processes are constantly evolving to meet our needs. Culture and developer experience take intentional thought and work and everyone is involved
• Dig in with our customers - everyone is part of customer success. If a customer is having issues engineering is always there to solve technical issues

Benefits

• Significant equity
• Flexible work policies
• Unlimited vacation
• Home office stipend or WeWork membership
• 401(k) program
• Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
• Dependent Care Saving Plan (DCFSA)
• Commuter Benefits
• Life Insurance by Guardian (covered 100%)
• Platinum Medical Plan by UnitedHealthcare (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)
• Platinum Dental Plan by Guardian Health (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)
• Platinum Vision Plan by Guardian Health (Employees 100%, Dependents 40%)