Senior Software Engineer

Veracross; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An international education technology company seeks a mid to upper-level software engineer for their Finance product team. The successful candidate will focus on developing and optimizing the Student Billing and Accounting platform, primarily using SQL and Ruby on Rails. This role not only requires strong backend engineering skills but also offers opportunities for mentorship and team collaboration within a growing, values-driven company specially tailored for K-12 academic institutions.

Benefits

3 weeks of vacation per year

14 paid holidays per year

56 hours of paid sick leave annually

Top tier medical, dental & vision benefits

401(k) Plan

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional programming experience.
• Experience with SQL, Ruby, Rails framework, or similar languages.
• Excellent communication skills and technical organization.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Finance team and improve Student Billing and Accounting products.
• Provide technical mentorship and build new features within the flagship product.
• Integrate Veracross with third-party systems used by private K-12 schools.

Skills

SQL

Ruby

Rails

JavaScript

Communication

Flexibility

Job description

Company Description:

Veracross provides SaaS-based School Information Systems (SIS) designed to meet the specific needs of independent K-12 schools worldwide. Our one-record solution combines the power of a fully integrated single-record database, personalized communication tools, and an elegant architecture that is unique in our industry.

We are a growing, values-led community of 350 employees in the US, UK and Australia who share a vision to unify school communities, improve the quality of education, and enhance learning. And we’re succeeding! As of early 2024, we are supporting 3200+ schools in 60 countries.

Veracross is five product brands in one global tech company

• Veracross SIS is a one-person, one-record school management platform
• Magnus Health provides cloud-based Student Health Record (SHR) solutions
• Digistorm connects with their communities through Digistorm Websites, Digistorm Funnel, and Digistorm Apps.
• Epraise incentivizes student well-being and connects teachers, students, and families.
• Firefly provides an online learning space for students and teachers

Role Description:

This is a mid to upper-level full-time software engineering role where you will work at the individual contributor level on our Finance product team. On this team, you will help to build and improve our Student Billing and Accounting product. Student Billing is used by schools to manage charges, payments, and statements for students and their families. The Accounting product is used by schools to manage their general ledger and accounts payable/accounts receivable. Having an all-in-one integrated billing, accounting, and school information system improves the lives of school staff and families as it brings otherwise complex workflows into one streamlined systems.

This role is a backend engineer position, with a heavy focus on the database layer. A strong candidate for this position would be well versed in SQL objects, like stored procedures, functions, and triggers, and be comfortable implementing business logic and performing query tuning and optimization. Candidates will be expected to work more than 60% of their time in SQL.

What to Expect

• Contribute to the Finance team at the individual and team level.

• Provide technical mentorship for team members.

• Improve and maintain our Ruby on Rails applications.

• Improve and maintain our products through SQL code.

• Build new features within our flagship product, Axiom.

• With Product Management, participate in the development of new features and platform improvements.

• Enable other product areas, such as Admissions and Fundraising, to leverage our accounting platform.

• Expand our internal tools to automate and improve workflows.

• Assist in documenting Finance team systems and tools.

• Integrate Veracross with third-party systems used by private K-12 schools.

• Understanding of core accounting standards and concepts, including but not limited to: GAAP, General Ledger, and Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable.

• Experience with accounting applications, such as Quickbooks, Freshbooks, Xero, or Sage.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Excellent technical organization and planning skills.

• The ability to perform technical responsibilities remotely in a mostly asynchronous environment.

• The ability to be flexible and adaptable.

• 4+yearsofprofessionalprogrammingexperience.

• Experience withtheRubylanguage, Rails framework, or similar languages and technologies; experience withmodern JavaScript development a plus.

• Experiencewithrelationaldatabases.

• Experiencewithsourcecontrol,especiallygit.

• Aservice-andteam-orientedmindset.

• US Citizenship.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with tuition management software.

• Experience with payment processing applications.

• 3weeks of vacationper year
• 14 paid holidays per year (including the week off between Christmas and New Year's Eve)
• 56 Hours of paid sick leave annually
• Top tier benefits -
• Medical, Dental & Vision (Blue Cross Blue Shield & EyeMed)
• Veracross LLC Fidelity 401(k) Plan - Managed by Sentinel Benefits

Salary at Veracross is determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. The compensation range for this position is $90k to $125k (annualized USD) in addition to potential bonus.

We value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We seek to infuse diversity and inclusion in everything we do while promoting a culture where differences are embraced as strengths; opportunities are equal and accessible; consideration and respect are the norm; and all team members are supported in reaching their full potential.