Staff Software Engineer – Full Stack

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StraighterLine

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StraighterLine is an online education platform that offers affordable, self-paced college courses. It enables students to earn college credits that are transferable to many colleges and universities. The service is designed for various audiences, including high school students preparing for college, adults returning to finish their degrees, and learners seeking to manage the costs and pace of their education. StraighterLine boasts partnerships with numerous higher education institutions and provides resources to aid students in building careers and planning their academic paths.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

📚 Education

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-05

📋 Description

• Contribute directly to the next generation of our training and certification systems by building modern, scalable services and applications using React/Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and AWS • Help maintain and stabilize existing legacy systems during the transition to new architectures • Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA, and offshore development partners • Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code • Improve CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployment practices • Participate in a moderate on-call rotation and drive down incident MTTR • Work closely with Product, QA, and offshore teams to ship high-quality features • Contribute to engineering decisions and best practices

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong full-stack skills, especially with React + TypeScript and Node.js • Experience building API-driven and serverless systems • Solid SQL and relational database knowledge (Postgres, SQL Server, MySQL) • Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms • Ability to debug legacy systems — AI tools are fair game • Strong communication and collaboration skills • A builder’s mindset — you own features from idea to launch to support • Comfortable with on-call and production support • ColdFusion/Lucee familiarity • GraphQL experience • Experience modernizing legacy systems • Worked with offshore engineering teams • DevOps mindset (automation, CI/CD, observability) • Prior experience in small, senior teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous time off policies, 13 public holidays. • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Coverage (*one option full funded by StraighterLine) • 401K Safe Harbor: StraighterLine contributes 3% of your total salary whether you contribute or not • Six weeks paid parental leave • Free StraighterLine courses for you and your family members