Software Engineer III

Renaissance; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Savings and Flexible Spending

401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company

Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off

12 Paid Holidays

Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14

Milk Stork program

Tuition Reimbursement

Life & Disability Insurance

Well-being and Employee Assistance

Job summary

Renaissance is a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, delivering discovery and learning tools used by teachers, admins, and students to personalize instruction.

As a Software Engineer III, you will build features across the search, curation, and student exploration layers, develop backend services, and craft accessible frontend experiences in TypeScript and React, while advancing an AI-first development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Professional experience building and shipping production web applications or services.
• Experience developing backend services against relational databases, and comfort with non-relational datastores, message queuing, and/or cloud infrastructure.
• Excitement to help craft a new, AI-first software development lifecycle. The idea of encoding engineering understanding into formal constraints that can be consumed by an AI workflow is an interesting problem to you, not a necessary evil.
• Working knowledge of cloud operations — you can deploy across environments, read a dashboard, and troubleshoot an application problem in a cloud environment.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate well with distributed engineering, product, and design teams.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Build features across the discovery layer and the products it connects — search and browse for teachers, curation and governance for admins, exploration for students.
• Develop backend services that leverage relational databases, non-relational datastores, message queuing, and cloud infrastructure, against typed contracts.
• Build and test frontend experiences in TypeScript and React, contract-tested against the backend, with accessibility treated as a requirement rather than a follow-up.
• Write the tests and the instrumentation with the feature — unit, component, and contract tests, plus the traces, metrics, and logs that make the system debuggable.

Skills

Web development

Backend services

Cloud operations

TypeScript

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

DevOps

Job description

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K-12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Job Description

As a Software Engineer III, y ou will build features across the discovery layer and the products behind it: the search and browse experiences teachers use to find the right lesson, the curation tools admins use to govern what their district sees, and the services that make four separate products feel like one library. You will be making it fast and intuitive for admins to govern and curate, for teachers to find and instruct, and for students to explore and grow their respective libraries. You will work with a high degree of independence and help ensure that problems and solutions are appropriately scoped.

In addition, you will be the first team to adopt Renaissance’s S3model of software development. You will be expected to build multi-agent orchestration , where specialized agents coordinate on complete features and engineers shift from managing individual tasks to designing the systems that produce the work.

In this role as a Software Engineer III, you will:

• Build features across the discovery layer and the products it connects — search and browse for teachers, curation and governance for admins, exploration for students.
• Develop backend services that leverage relational databases, non-relational datastores, message queuing, and cloud infrastructure, against typed contracts.
• Build and test frontend experiences in TypeScript and React, contract-tested against the backend, with accessibility treated as a requirement rather than a follow-up.
• Write the tests and the instrumentation with the feature — unit, component, and contract tests, plus the traces, metrics, and logs that make the system debuggable.

Qualifications

For this role, you must have:

• Professional experience building and shipping production web applications or services.
• Experience developing backend services against relational databases, and comfort with non-relational datastores, message queuing, and/or cloud infrastructure.
• Excitement to help craft a new, AI-first software development lifecycle. The idea of encoding engineering understanding into formal constraints that can be consumed by an AI workflow is an interesting problem to you, not a necessary evil.
• Working knowledge of cloud operations — you can deploy across environments, read a dashboard, and troubleshoot an application problem in a cloud environment.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate well with distributed engineering, product, and design teams.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.

Experience with various engineering technologies such as:

• Proficiency in a typed language, ideally TypeScript, and comfort working in a strictly typed codebase.

Optionally, you could have:

• Experience leading and mentoring others
• Experience with the AWS technologies
• Knowledge of DevOps processes and technologies

Additional information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Salary Range: The base range for this position is $99,500.00 - $136,800.00. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location.

Benefits for eligible US employees include:

• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Benefits listed apply to eligible U.S. employees in accordance with Renaissance’s benefits eligibility criteria. Contractor and other non‑employee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits.

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

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Reasonable Accommodations

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