Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Cadmus, a global EdTech company, as a Senior Software Engineer and help us provide high-quality education to 1 billion students by 2050. You will work with a small team, building performant front-end applications in React and Typescript, implementing backend GraphQL APIs in Elixir, and owning deployments on AWS and other cloud services. This role requires extensive full-stack development experience, strong judgment, and excellent communication skills. You'll be a key player in solving engineering challenges and delivering improved functionality. Cadmus offers a remote-friendly, flexible work culture, a diverse and inclusive workplace, and opportunities for mentoring and career development.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in full stack software development
• Develop rich front-end applications in React
• Write backend services in Elixir, with GraphQL and REST APIs
• Build things from zero
• Make pragmatic suggestions for improving tooling and abstractions based on experience and knowledge of the state of the art in software development
• Be comfortable making judgment calls on tradeoffs and edge cases in the user experience on your own
• Understand the complete picture of building and deploying SaaS products on AWS Cloud and Google Cloud
• Work with SQL (like PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases and fundamentally understand how the backend and frontend infrastructure/services connect and scale
• Have advanced English communication skills, and be equally comfortable talking to with fellow developers and external customers
• Communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real-time
• Enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals and care about learning, growing, and helping others do the same
• Be flexible, comfortable with ambiguity, and have experience scaling systems to support rapid growth
• Have been a one-person army when needed, or worked as a founding engineer
• Bring your passion and work ethic to the table every day, and constantly set the example for others
• Constantly look to upskill yourself, and find ways to improve upon the status quo

Responsibilities

• Work across multiple codebases with a small team of cross-functional developers to solve various product engineering and architectural design challenges
• Apply your front-end skills to build performant, modern front-end applications with functional paradigms in React and Typescript
• Have ownership of our design system libraries, and assist in designing the GraphQL services and API architecture
• Implement the backend GraphQL APIs in Elixir and build other polyglot backend services
• Own the deployment on AWS and other cloud services

Benefits

• A remote-friendly, flexible working culture; where you can work from any global location
• A diverse and inclusive workplace where there are no barriers to anyone succeeding
• A surrounding team of mission-driven individuals who genuinely love what they do
• Mentoring and succession planning for your career