Mid-Senior Software Engineer

Podium Education, Inc; Harvard (IL); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a talented software engineer to join its tech team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain impactful software solutions that enhance student success. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like Go and AWS, ensuring high availability and scalability of systems. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic team, contribute to meaningful projects, and enjoy a flexible remote work environment. If you're passionate about coding and eager to make a difference in education, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

401k

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Discounted Wellhub Membership

Access to Mental Health Applications

Company-Paid Therapy Sessions

Global Experiential Programs

Summer Fridays

Qualifications

• Strong software development skills with Go in production.
• Experience with testing and achieving 100% code coverage.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and incident response practices.

Responsibilities

• Create solutions to empower internal customers for student success.
• Design scalable systems for internal and external clients.
• Collaborate and mentor team members in technical areas.

Skills

Go (golang)

Testing

Cloud Services (AWS)

Python

SQL

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS ECS

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Mid-Senior Software Engineer

Who we are

Podium Education partners with colleges and companies to supercharge the undergraduate degree with skills, experience, and a bridge to a great career. In 2023, Podium was the largest accredited producer of technical talent in the United States. Podium serves a population of over 1,000,000 students across more than 70 of the largest and most well-known universities in the country, including Georgetown, UNC, Harvard, ASU, and Texas A&M. In 2023, Podium acquired Untapped, the leading all in one early career software and talent marketplace, to further our mission of making sure every college student has a path to a great career. Together we are building the end to end platform from college to career.

Podium Education programs are offered as online courses within standard university semesters. Through Podium, students gain real-world experience while tackling projects from the world's most recognized brands, such as Spotify, Netflix, Shopify, Uber, Google, and Airbnb. Our flagship program is the Global Career Accelerator (here’s an example: https://www.globaltech.asu.edu/about) which runs at 70+ universities around the country.

• Student Experience - Customer NPS is better than Netflix, Apple, and Amazon.

• Student Access - Programs are for credit, count towards graduation, and are financial aid eligible.

• Student Outcomes - Their undergraduate students go on to work at places like JP Morgan, Airbnb, Stripe and Deloitte directly through our careers marketplace.

Podium Education is a privately held growth stage company based in Austin, TX with prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, Owl Ventures, Lumos Capital Group, Learn Capital, Lachy Groom, Goldcrest Capital, and Album VC.

About the role

We're looking for a talented and motivated software engineer to join our tech team! As a member of the team you'll help us design, build, and maintain awesome software, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Create and own solutions that empower our internal customers to ensure student success.

• Design and implement scalable and highly available systems, for both internal and external customers.

• Create the tools and services to help scale internally, and reduce manual processes.

• Collaborate with team members, provide technical guidance, pairing, and mentoring.

Qualifications

• Strong software development skills, with experience using Go in a production environment.

• Healthy love for testing what you write, we aim for 100% code coverage.

• Strong experience working with cloud services, preferably AWS.

• Experience with the software development process (source control, code reviews, CI/CD, incident response practices).

• Some experience with Python and SQL.

Things we love

• Go (golang) and Python.

• Clean code.

• RESTful APIs.

• Building SDKs.

• Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS).

• Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).

• Cats.

This role is remote-flexible. We are located on South Congress Ave (next door to Allen’s Boots!) and would love to have you in the office occasionally, but no relocation necessary.

Benefits

• 401k, Health, Vision and Dental insurance packages.

• Short term disability insurance.

• Unlimited Paid Time Off.

• Discounted Wellhub Membership.

• Access to 3 Mental Health Applications.

• One Medical Membership.

• 8 Company-Paid for Therapy Sessions.

• Free access to upskill through our Global Experiential Programs.

• Excellent Birthing and Bonding Leave policies.

• Sleep coach for post-partum and infant coaching.

• Student and Partner focused half days every First Friday of the month.

• Summer Fridays - half day on Friday during the summer months.

• Extremely talented and intelligent co-workers.

• A massive impact on universities and the lives of others, every single day.