Senior Software Engineer I & II Platform, Core Services

Frontline Education; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 81.826 - 129.199; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

401(k) with company match

Annual bonus opportunity

Flexible time off

Zusammenfassung

Frontline Education seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join their Core Services Platform Engineering team. The role requires strong proficiency in TypeScript, cloud-native systems, and the ability to deliver high-quality software solutions.

You will collaborate with various stakeholders to drive engineering excellence and support the organization's mission of transforming education through technology.

The position offers a competitive salary range aligned with experience and skills, benefits including flexible time off, and a commitment to inclusion and opportunity.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience needed.
• Experience with cloud-native systems and distributed architecture essential.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills required.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and support cloud-native shared services.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and decisions.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.

Kenntnisse

TypeScript

Node.js

Microservices

Cloud-native development

APIs

Event-driven architectures

Agile methodologies

Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS services

Relational databases

Jobbeschreibung

Senior Software Engineer I & II Platform, Core Services

Location: United States

Description

At Frontline Education, our mission is we transform how schools work, so every educator and student succeeds. Our vision is every school thriving. Every community stronger.

We're hiring for multiple Sr. Software Engineers at either the I or II level to join our Core Services Platform Engineering team.

How You'll Contribute to Our Mission

Core Services teams build and evolve the foundational platform capabilities that power Frontline's products. These shared services enable product teams to deliver customer value faster, more consistently, and with greater reliability. From workflow orchestration and notifications to integrations and reusable application services, you'll help create scalable building blocks that support educators and administrators across the country.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll contribute beyond implementation. You'll help shape technical solutions, influence engineering practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and ensure platform capabilities remain reliable, extensible, and easy for downstream teams to adopt. Your work will directly support Frontline's ability to deliver meaningful outcomes for schools while creating exceptional experiences for both internal and external customers.

Platform Engineering & Solution Delivery

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support cloud-native shared services and reusable platform capabilities.
• Develop scalable APIs, microservices, asynchronous workflows, and event-driven solutions using TypeScript and modern backend technologies.
• Build configurable and extensible platform capabilities that support diverse product needs across Frontline's ecosystem.
• Contribute to distributed systems leveraging messaging technologies such as Kafka and modern event-driven architectures.
• Support modernization initiatives that improve scalability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence.
• Partner with product engineering teams to improve adoption experiences and reduce integration complexity.

Technical Design & Collaboration

Participate in discovery, refinement, and design discussions to evaluate requirements, identify tradeoffs, and shape practical solutions.

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, QA Engineers, Technical Leads, and Engineering Managers throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Contribute to architectural discussions while aligning solutions to platform standards and long-term engineering objectives.
• Communicate technical concepts, operational considerations, and implementation approaches clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build strong partnerships across geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.

Engineering Excellence

• Develop high-quality, maintainable, secure, and scalable software solutions.
• Contribute to automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, API, and operational testing.
• Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful technical feedback that improves team outcomes.
• Support CI/CD automation and continuous delivery practices.
• Contribute to improvements in observability, resiliency, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Promote reusable engineering patterns, platform consistency, and sustainable development practices.
• Mentor fellow engineers and contribute to a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.

AI-First Engineering

• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and emerging technologies to accelerate development, troubleshooting, testing, documentation, and solution exploration.
• Apply strong engineering judgment when evaluating and validating AI-generated outputs.
• Use AI to improve productivity while maintaining high standards for security, maintainability, quality, scalability, and operational integrity.
• Champion responsible and effective AI adoption across engineering workflows.

What You Bring to Help Us Grow

Senior Software Engineer I

You will typically bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern backend development practices.
• Experience designing and building APIs, microservices, and distributed cloud-native systems.
• Ability to independently deliver complex features and services with high quality and reliability.
• Experience contributing to technical design discussions and evaluating implementation tradeoffs.
• Strong understanding of testing, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers and contributing to engineering best practices.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity while applying sound judgment and validation practices.

Senior Software Engineer II

You will typically bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise designing, building, and evolving complex distributed systems and shared platform services.
• Experience leading technical solutions that span multiple teams, services, or platform capabilities.
• Proven success influencing engineering standards, architectural decisions, and platform direction.
• Strong systems-thinking capabilities with the ability to balance immediate delivery needs against long-term platform sustainability.
• Experience mentoring engineers, elevating team capabilities, and improving engineering practices across broader groups.
• Demonstrated success driving quality, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence across complex systems.
• Experience establishing effective AI-assisted engineering practices and helping teams adopt modern development workflows responsibly.

Required Technical Experience for Both Levels

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Modern server-side frameworks such as NestJS
• APIs
• Microservices
• Distributed systems
• Event-driven architectures
• AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, SNS/SQS, Container-based workloads
• Docker
• Relational databases
• Kafka or similar messaging technologies
• CI/CD pipelines
• Modern frontend concepts, including React, TypeScript, and component-based architectures
• Agile software development environments
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with .NET-based services and modernization initiatives.
• Experience building platform capabilities consumed across multiple product teams.
• Experience designing configurable and extensible platform services.
• Experience supporting platform adoption and developer enablement initiatives.
• Familiarity with frontend modernization efforts, including Angular-to-React migrations.
• Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms.
• Experience working within multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Experience collaborating with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted or agentic development workflows in professional software engineering environments.

What You'll Need to Thrive

A strong ownership mindset that embraces accountability and continuous improvement.

• Collaborative approach that reflects our belief that we're better together. Commitment to understanding customer needs and building solutions that create meaningful outcomes.
• Strong systems-thinking capabilities that balance local decisions with broader platform impact.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for learning and applying emerging technologies.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity while maintaining focus on delivery and customer value.
• Desire to create reusable, scalable solutions that enable teams and strengthen the overall product ecosystem.

Our Mission, Our People, Our Purpose

At Frontline Education, we’re reimagining what’s possible by becoming an AI-first organization, transforming how we think, work, and serve the educators who shape our schools every day. By using AI in thoughtful, practical ways, we’re creating tools that help educators save time, gain insights, and focus more on what matters most — their students.

As part of our team, you’ll be expected and empowered to build and apply AI skillsets that grow with you, because at Frontline Education, technology amplifies what matters most: the human drive to learn, improve, and make a difference.

Compensation & Benefits

The full base compensation range for the level I is: $95,000-$125,000

The full base compensation range for the level II is: $130,000-$150,000.

• Competitive base salary aligned to level, experience, skills, and market data.
• Annual bonus opportunity.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employee stock purchase opportunities where applicable.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development support.
• Flexible time off and wellness-focused benefits.
• Inclusion, Belonging & Equal Opportunity

Frontline Education is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We aspire to have an inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join our team.