Do you love solving problems, collaborating with dedicated colleagues, and changing the world for the better? Our Development team is growing and we’re looking for multiple software engineers to help us build our suite of award-winning solutions. You’ll get to work on cutting-edge tech that’s making a real difference. Our software developers aren’t just coders, they’re problem-solvers who work closely with QA, Product, and other departments to find out-of-the-box solutions to the challenges our customers face. As a Software Engineer on our team, you will have the opportunity to design, build, test, maintain, and have a direct and meaningful impact on the roadmap of the digital platform.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
- Identify and uphold Full stack engineering best practices
- Collaborate with designers & product managers to iterate on the design & implementation of our product
- Design and create services that grow with the needs of the company
- Monitor performance, watch for traffic drops related to usability problems & rectify the issues
- Review app and feature code, and plan future API upgrades with the development team
- Assist in the development of applications & features that will be put on the website, mobile app, and external client apps
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
- Work with with modern libraries and tooling
- Strong analytical problem solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter with strong initiative, quality deliverable and ability to work under pressure
- Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment
ABOUT YOU:
- 3+ years of experience developing large scale web applications using GO and Javascript/React
- Experience with modern libraries and tooling
- Significant GO and Javascript programming skills and data structures
- Significant Microservices architecture and development skills
- Significant knowledge of SQL Database and NoSQL Databases (Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra)
- Significant experience in Messaging architectures & development- Kafka or equivalent
- Proven Experience in building RESTful APIs and a deep understanding of REST principles
- Proven Experience working with Docker or similar technologies, GIT, CI/CD and writing unit/integration tests
- Strong analytical problem solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter with strong initiative, quality deliverable and ability to work under pressure
- Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment
Bonus Points:
- Proven Experience Cloud Platforms like Azure or Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Experience in programming using JavaScript, Node and React ecosystem is a plus point
- Familiarity with developing e-commerce application modules such as Catalog setup and Search (Solr, ElasticSearch etc.)
- Proven Experience with Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and Continuous deployment
- Experience architecting and building high volume, fault-tolerant, highly available, and globally distributed systems in a cloud-native environment
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Familiarity with A/B testing, monitoring, and alerting
- Energetic, flexible, collaborative, team player and good interpersonal skills
- A passion for keeping up-to-date with the latest cloud trends and technologies
ABOUT US
For 25 years, Lightspeed Systems® has been a leader in the ever-changing landscape of K-12 learning technology. Lightspeed Systems works with tens of thousands of schools to maximize the safety, mobility, and effectiveness of their students’ learning experience. Every device can be covered with the most effective web filter, student safety monitor, classroom management software, device management tool, and analytics program available. Learn more at www.lightspeedsystems.com.
ABOUT OUR ATX HQ
If “work from where it makes sense” includes being onsite for you some or all the time, you will LOVE being at the ranch. Our uniquely Lightspeed (and totally Texas) corporate headquarters has everything Lightspeeders need to get the job done – and a whole lot more.
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15,000 sq. ft. of open work area, offices, and huddle rooms
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A private chef serving up lunch Tuesday through Thursday every week
- A state-of-the-art fitness center (with outfitted locker rooms)
- Physical therapist onsite regularly
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Indoor and outdoor casual collaboration spots
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Pet-friendly office environment
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A golf simulator, go-carts, shuffleboard, corn hole, and MORE fun
All within 31 sprawling acres of Live Oak trees that foster a natural habitat for local wildlife. It is not uncommon to be greeted daily by whitetail deer. (Maybe it wants to join your meeting?)
