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StrongMind

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2001

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Education • SaaS • B2B

StrongMind is a K-12 education company that provides digital learning solutions, curriculum, and services for schools and families. It offers an adaptive, engaging digital curriculum and technology platform aimed at strengthening student outcomes and simplifying K-12 digital learning, along with enrollment marketing and support services. StrongMind also provides a homeschool product for families with built-in curriculum and daily planning guidance.

📋 Description

• Lead design reviews and implementation for larger, cross-cutting efforts; set technical direction within a scope • Establish reusable patterns—service templates, libraries, guardrails, and default configurations—that multiple teams adopt • Drive refactors and reliability improvements that measurably reduce recurring defects and incident volume • Introduce data contracts, validation gates, and coordinated migrations that align shared entities and ownership • Improve performance practices by introducing dashboards, benchmarks, and post-incident systemic fixes; coach others on effective use of AI-assisted tools • Introduce security and privacy guardrails (secure templates, CI checks, safer defaults) that reduce recurring findings across the team • Lead team-level planning: establish shared expectations for breakdown, sizing, and sequencing; surface risks early and keep work flowing • Create communication norms (design/decision docs, incident comms templates) and mentoring structures (onboarding plans, buddy systems) that scale the team • Unblock teammates on hard technical problems and advocate for scope decisions in product terms

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production code • Extensive experience designing, building, and operating production software systems at scale • Track record of setting technical direction for a team or major system and shipping the associated outcomes • Demonstrated ability to establish shared patterns, templates, or guardrails that other engineers adopt • Strong system design skills—scaling patterns, reliability controls (timeouts, retries, backpressure, caching), and first-class observability • Experience leading refactors, deprecations, or modernization efforts that reduce long-term cost of change • Proven ability to influence engineering direction across multiple teams through writing, reviews, and coaching • Strong cross-functional partnership skills with Product, Design, and Engineering Management • Excellent written and verbal communication, including decision docs, design summaries, and incident follow-ups • Alignment with StrongMind's core values: Kindness, Accountability, Collaboration, Innovation, and Grit

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive total compensation package , including medical, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits • Well-being that works for real life —from an on-site gym, virtual wellness programs, and wellness coaching to flexible work options for select roles, because your well-being fuels your brilliance • Unlimited PTO for exempt roles , plus additional “life happens” days when you need flexibility • A fully paid holiday week off at Christmas , so you can truly rest, reset, and reconnect • Recognition and rewards that celebrate birthdays, meaningful milestones, legendary work, and community service hours that let you give back • Quarterly Town Halls that keep communication transparent, honest, and human • Annual social events and traditions we genuinely look forward to—like Halloween celebrations, Wellness Fairs, and other moments that bring our community together