Junior Software Engineer

Who we are

School districts license our reading and math curriculum for grades K through 8. We started in 1985 and have grown to about 90 people.

What this job is

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. The Junior Software Engineer will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

What you'll work on

• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk

What you bring

• 1-2 years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line

Pluses

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Contributions to open source projects

Compensation and benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%
• Three weeks of PTO to start
• Employee discount
• Short- and long-term disability
• Cell phone reimbursement

Applications are reviewed as they come in.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Claypost Learning, LLC.