Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join OpenSesame's fully remote team in India as a Senior Engineer and take a technical leadership role in evolving our eLearning platform. You will work collaboratively using Extreme Programming (XP) practices, contributing to new features and improving existing code using a TypeScript, Node.js, and React stack. This role involves mentoring engineers, fostering collaboration, and strengthening engineering culture. You will lead by example in XP practices and support the development of a strong engineering culture within a leaderful, remote-first team. The position requires significant technical expertise and collaborative skills. OpenSesame offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Legal ability (passport and travel visa) to travel to the US
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Reliable, high-bandwidth Internet connectivity

Responsibilities

• Work across the stack, contributing to both new feature development and improving the design and tests of existing code
• Mentor engineers
• Foster collaboration
• Contribute to a culture of quality, continuous learning, and shared ownership
• Enhance team skills
• Act as a connector across engineering teams
• Lead by example in XP practices
• Support the development of a strong engineering culture within a leaderful, remote-first team
• Get fully integrated into the team’s workflow, develop a deep understanding of the product and architecture, and start contributing to collaborative development processes
• Build relationships with engineers across OpenSesame, learn team workflows, and contribute with a focus on collective ownership of outcomes
• Pair and mob with team members to understand existing systems and contribute in maintaining and developing new features. Apply test-driven development (TDD) and CI/CD to improve feedback loops and to deliver high quality and maintainable solutions
• Start mentoring engineers, providing technical guidance, and fostering a culture of continuous learning through XP practices. Advise engineering managers on how to take advantage of team members’ strengths and how to address their weaknesses
• Engage fully in the team's agile ceremonies, retrospectives, and discussions. Help the team refine XP-based workflows, including improving test-driven development (TDD) and evolutionary design strategies
• Take on more leadership in technical decision-making, guide the team’s development practices, and ensure quality in both code and process
• Play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the team, ensuring architectural decisions balance scalability, maintainability, and simplicity
• Continue engaging in pair programming and mobbing to lead important initiatives while fostering strong collaboration across the organization
• Help the team break down complex work into vertical slices, ensuring incremental value delivery and fast feedback loops
• Develop team members’ ability to collectively own their work and an ability to work incrementally without your active involvement. Foster a culture of care around edge cases and quality work
• Mentor team members in improving build processes to achieve zero-friction local development and continuous integration. Develop expertise in James Shore’s "Testing Without Mocks" pattern language and begin mentoring others in applying it
• Foster a culture where each team member feels empowered to take initiative and contribute to the success of the team. Encourage shared responsibility for quality and maintainability
• Work with engineering leadership to define and implement long-term technical strategies that align with company goals. Lead initiatives that enhance the team’s ability to execute efficiently within the XP framework
• Act as a technical connector, helping align best practices in test-driven development (TDD), continuous deployment, and evolutionary design across engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

Fluency in Gujarati or Hindi

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• ISOs