Senior Software Engineer, Platform

The role

This role focuses on platform and infrastructure development. You will own outcomes for stability, quality, maintainability, and speed of development for the technical platform.

What you will do

• Identify, prioritize, design and deliver technical platform solutions including cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure, shared libraries, security, authentication, and CI/CD tooling.
• Engage with engineering stakeholders to understand pain points and opportunities.
• Drive investigation and decisioning on key technology decisions.
• Own production availability by implementing observability and recovery practices and providing periodic on-call support.
• Uplevel the engineering team through documentation, presentations, design/code reviews, and mentoring.
• Own the delivery of critical projects by defining scope, creating tickets, and managing timelines.
• Mentor and support junior engineers.

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in infrastructure and platform engineering
• Comfort with AWS, Terraform, MongoDB, Python, and CI/CD via Github Actions (or equivalent)
• Ability to design and develop full-stack solutions including Frontend when necessary
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Commitment to continuous improvement including code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem-solving
• Experience working in agile environments
• Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Pytest)
• Experience and comfort operating in a fast startup environment

Nice to have

• Scaling and cyber security experience
• Prior experience in EdTech

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Professional development opportunities including free access to online learning programs

About the company

Timely builds tools to help schools create high quality schedules using AI technology and expert school schedulers. They serve districts and charter school organizations across 20+ states.