Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Guild is a company focused on unlocking opportunities through education and upskilling. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build scalable systems that facilitate education benefits and data integration for their Employer Partners, ensuring employees maximize their career opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust, scalable systems that power data onboarding, eligibility workflows, and benefit policy administration
- Develop backend services, APIs, ETL pipelines, and internal tools using serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Glue, S3, API Gateway)
- Create clean, testable, maintainable code in TypeScript/Node.js and Python following best practices and established patterns
- Ensure system observability, security, and performance using tools like Datadog and CloudWatch
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, internal ops, and customer technical teams to deliver high-impact features
- Write and maintain comprehensive tests (unit, contract, BDD, and end-to-end) and support CI/CD pipelines for consistent delivery
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and on-call rotations, with a focus on production readiness, system health, and issue resolution
- Contribute to system architecture decisions, technical documentation, and mentoring of junior developers
Skills
- 5+ Years Hands-on Experience with: TypeScript/Node.js, Python, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, GraphQL, REST APIs
- Experience with AWS tools: Lambda, Glue, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS, Secrets Manager, CDK, Serverless Framework
- Knowledge of: ETL pipeline development, CSV/API data ingestion, data transformation, event-driven architecture
- Testing & Tooling: Jest, Pact, Cypress, Gherkin, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (AWS CDK/CloudFormation)
- AI Experience: Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI) and building AI-powered features such as virtual assistants, summarization tools, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. Proficient in using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) with a solid understanding of their application in production-grade environments
- Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills
- Ability to balance technical decisions with business goals and deliver pragmatic solutions
- A passion for Guild's mission to unlock opportunity through education and upskilling
Benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Vacation policy to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company Overview
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