Senior Software Engineer – EdTech Impact & Innovation

IXL; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

IXL Learning, a leading edtech company, is seeking Senior Software Engineers to help expand our high-impact educational products. You will work in San Mateo, contributing to backend wiring, business logic, and UI across new features and existing codebases.

You will drive development with a collaborative team, provide accurate estimates, evaluate new platforms, and design, code, test, and debug to deliver reliable software that improves learning for millions of students.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Excellent Java or other OO language programming skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for using technology to improve education.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend wiring, application logic, and UI for products.
• Lead design, coding, testing, debugging, and tuning efforts.
• Provide accurate estimates and evaluate new platforms/ technologies for project implementations.
• Collaborate across multiple development teams to design and release products.

Skills

Full stack development

Java

OO programming

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Advanced degree in Computer Science

Job description

IXL Learning, a leading edtech company, is seeking Senior Software Engineers to help expand our high-impact educational products. You will work in San Mateo, contributing to backend wiring, business logic, and UI across new features and existing codebases.

You will drive development with a collaborative team, provide accurate estimates, evaluate new platforms, and design, code, test, and debug to deliver reliable software that improves learning for millions of students.