Senior Software Engineer, Data

🕒 September 23

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Magpie Literacy

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • B2C • Technology

Magpie Literacy is a company dedicated to unlocking the potential of every child as a reader. They aim to tackle systemic inequities in literacy by developing research-based digital literacy tools for students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Their tools focus on foundational reading skills such as phonemic awareness, decoding, and meaningful reading experiences. Magpie Literacy's mission is to eradicate illiteracy by providing educational resources that help children become strong, confident readers. They offer a supplemental digital tool for kindergarten students, incorporating instructional videos and educational games to support reading development through engaging and developmentally appropriate methods.

📋 Description

• Design and build platform capabilities for Magpie’s digital learning experiences • Build scalable backend services, front-end interfaces, data models, and pipelines • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on new and existing features • Maintain understanding of customer needs and identify platform friction points • Use KPIs, OKRs, North Star metrics, and empirical evidence to guide decisions • Own development from design through production and monitor live system performance • Improve the flow of work from idea to production • Write clean, efficient, and documented code • Build and maintain APIs and integrate third-party services • Design and maintain data flows across databases, event-driven systems, analytics platforms, and downstream consumers • Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness • Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging • Mentor engineers and contribute to their growth • Contribute to architecture, technical standards, and best practices • Stay current with emerging technologies and improve development processes • Pair with cross-disciplinary teammates and learn workflows during the first 30 days • Own smaller features or components end-to-end by day 60 • Help shape architecture, mentor teammates, and influence long-term technical planning by day 90

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of full-stack engineering experience • Track record of building systems, driving engineering standards, and setting technical direction • Experience building for internal stakeholders and external users, including authentication, onboarding, or enablement features • Experience writing automated unit, integration, and/or end-to-end tests • Experience with data-intensive systems, including data pipelines, analytics infrastructure, event data, or data modeling • Experience leading the design or delivery of meaningful systems that improved outcomes • Startup or early-stage company experience, ideally as a founding engineer • Strong ownership and pragmatic approach to tools and technologies • Ability to explore alternatives and recommend improvements • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • AWS, Lambda, Athena, ECS, S3, and dbt • SQL/NoSQL databases, including Postgres, Mongo, and Timestream • TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, and React

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary range of $145,000 - $160,000 per annum • Competitive medical, dental, vision benefits • Opportunity to work remotely for a mission-driven company • Flexible time off • 401k with 4% guaranteed match • Work environment committed to diversity, equity and inclusion • Opportunity to travel and meet team members in person twice per year • Reasonable accommodations to support accessibility throughout the interview process