Senior Engineer

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $135k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Otus

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Education • SaaS • B2B

Otus is a comprehensive educational platform designed to enhance student growth by consolidating various educational tools and data in one place. The platform supports educators by enabling the creation, management, and reporting of assessments with standards-based and traditional grading systems. Otus also offers robust data and analytics features that allow for progress monitoring and data-driven decision-making to optimize student learning outcomes. Additionally, it facilitates family engagement by providing real-time access to student progress.

📋 Description

• Own complex technical problems and features from problem understanding and approach definition through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, identify dependencies, and translate user needs into technical solutions • Contribute to system and architecture design decisions, evaluating tradeoffs across maintainability, reliability, scalability, and delivery time • Communicate technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and changes in direction • Investigate production issues across interconnected services and external dependencies • Foster a collaborative engineering culture through code reviews, design reviews, knowledge sharing, constructive feedback, and technical guidance • Continuously develop technical knowledge and build context in unfamiliar systems and technologies

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience • Professional experience building and maintaining backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript • Experience contributing to software architecture and system design decisions • Strong understanding of distributed systems and scalable software • Strong understanding of database technologies, data modeling, and SQL • Experience working with relational databases • Hands-on experience deploying and supporting software in production environments • Experience with application monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis • 2+ years of professional experience working with a modern frontend framework, preferably Angular • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to thrive in an environment of continuous improvement and open feedback • You must be legally authorized to work in the US • Nice to have: experience building and maintaining event-driven or asynchronous systems using Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms • Nice to have: experience with search and indexing technologies such as OpenSearch • Nice to have: experience with advanced observability and telemetry, including OpenTelemetry (OTel) • Nice to have: experience with Docker and containerized applications • Nice to have: experience building solutions hosted in AWS • Nice to have: experience with backend frameworks such as NestJS • Nice to have: experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines • Nice to have: experience working with K-12 education technology

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision coverage effective day 1 of employment • 20 PTO days per year • 5 Sick days per year • 16 Holidays per year, including your birthday and a day to do something you love • 12 weeks of full paid parental leave for the care of a new child • $1,500 Annual Professional Development/Tuition Reimbursement Benefit • Eligible for performance-based incentive compensation • Employer Paid Life and Short & Long Term Disability Insurance • 401K Plan with a Safe Harbor Employer Match (up to 4%) • $500 per year Work From Home Allowance • MacBook Pro and an additional monitor for your home office • Company SWAG