Senior Software Engineer, School Integrations

About the role

The School Integrations team at Clever is responsible for the technical foundation that connects schools to our ecosystem of learning applications. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will be a key contributor to the platform that powers Clever's products and handles the massive data volumes required to automate account creation for millions of students and teachers.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that millions of users have seamless access to their learning apps by building and maintaining the high-performance data pipelines that power the Clever ecosystem.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to build intuitive UIs and robust backend services.
• Develop new features for our microservices architecture, build resilient data sync pipelines, and contribute to the internal architectures that support Clever's massive data-processing needs.

Requirements

• Engineering Foundation: 4+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer with a strong foundation in software engineering principles and full-stack development.
• Problem Solving: Proven ability to architect solutions for various product and data needs and a track record of leading small projects within a team environment.
• Quality & Reliability: A strong commitment to writing simple, high-performing code that is easy to maintain long-term, with practical experience generating and automating tests (unit and end-to-end).
• AI Development Tools: Familiarity with leveraging AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to enhance development workflows, productivity, and code quality.
• Cultural Alignment: A commitment to understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture (see our blog post on Defining Clever's Engineering Culture).

Qualifications

• Technical Stack: Experience with our tech stack which includes Go, TypeScript, Node.js, and React, using AWS services such as lambdas and step functions, and databases/storage such as DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, and MongoDB.
• Data at Scale: Knowledge of batch processing and working with data at high scale.
• System Stability: Comfort with participating in an on-call rotation to ensure the stability of the critical data pipelines that schools rely on daily.

Skills

• Experience with AWS services such as lambdas and step functions.
• Knowledge of batch processing and working with data at high scale.
• Comfort with participating in an on-call rotation to ensure the stability of the critical data pipelines that schools rely on daily.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible PTO and Paid Parental Leave
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
• Mental healthcare services
• Professional development budget
• Annual company retreat + team events

Pay

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $140,000-$165,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA, it's between 154,000-$181,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors, including experience and level of expertise.

Schedule

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