About Us
At GoGuardian, we're helping share the future of digital learning by providing educators, students, and schools with tools to create engaging and equitable learning environments. Together, we build innovative solutions to empower students, deliver insights, and encourage experimentation. With employees around the globe, we're committed to building a culture of inclusivity, curiosity, and courage. GoGuardian's growth is fast and ever-evolving, and our teams are growing along with it - always ready to experiment and learn.
Our Culture
We're here for the cause, but also for the culture. We celebrate our successes and wins together, and make time to appreciate our teammates every day. Take a peek into your future at GoGuardian: our Slack channels include #gardenclub, #boardgametime, #bookrecs, and #petphotos. There's always something fun going on, including concerts, classes, book clubs, and more! From virtual trivia to local meet-ups, Guardians are always finding ways to connect.
The Team
Our Engineering team is built on a purpose-driven culture of collaboration, openness, trust, and transparency with amazing individuals that push the limits and think outside the box every day. As the foundation of our company, GoGuardian engineers help build, optimize, and maintain our infrastructure and applications that support millions of students and educators every day. They develop solutions to support meaningful interactions between students and teachers in face-to-face, remote, or hybrid learning environments.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack on the GoGuardian Engineering team, you will work closely with product and design teams to build and enhance features that safeguard students and facilitates student learning by building intuitive, engaging, consistent, and innovative products for a diverse set of users.
What You'll Do

• Design, build, and continually improve our products that support millions of students and educators every day
• Work on production code and build rich feature sets that solve the complex problems in education
• Write high-quality maintainable code that is well-documented with good test coverage
• Contribute to the full software development lifecycle
• Work with and learn a variety of technologies, languages, and frameworks, such as Golang, React, Terraform, AWS/GCP, Docker, Linux, Typescript, MySQL
• Mentor and coach developers, helping them improve and perfect their skills.
• Join an engineering team of motivated and empowered engineers helping to embody the principles of fluidity, critical thinking, innovation, and collaboration

Who You Are

• 5+ years of professional industry experience leading and coordinating complex and large-scale features
• Accomplished in writing high-quality, maintainable code in a modern programming language (e.g. Go, Python, Java, C#, C++)
• Experienced in designing and building APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) and microservices
• Experienced with JavaScript libraries/frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc.)
• Experienced with SQL and NoSQL databases for scalability and performance
• Has working knowledge of cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)Has working knowledge of container orchestration platforms (ECS, Kubernetes)
• Proven experience delivering highly performant and scalable features
• Proven advocate for engineering quality, and for building a thriving team culture
• Great communication skills and an ability to proactively identify problems and solutions across teams and stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

What We Offer

• A varied and challenging role in a multinational and highly innovative company
• A robust benefits package including health insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, employee stock option plan, paid parental leave, 13 paid company holidays, and much more
• Development and further training opportunities for shaping and realizing your career goals
• Exceptional colleagues with a passion for EdTech


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GoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. GoGuardian does not discriminate against employees, applicants, interns or volunteers on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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