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Our award-winning system of learning solutions is purpose-built for K-12 and trusted by school leaders to promote effective teaching and equitable engagement while helping empower educators to keep students safe. \nWhat It’s Like to Work at GoGuardian\nWe are an outcomes-focused learning company with a steadfast focus on improving learning environments, one classroom at a time. Working with us means joining a remote team of diverse, committed, mission-driven employees who are inspired by our vision, dedicated to our customers, and ready to roll up their sleeves. Guardians put their heads together to solve problems, learn together from experiments that fail, and stand together by their work with full accountability. We balance our diligence with an inclusive culture that invites everyone to bring their whole self to work. Join us and learn why “I love the people here” is one of the most frequent comments we hear from Guardians.\nThe Role\nWe’re looking for a Software Engineer II, Fullstack to design and implement solid architectural solutions with the rest of the engineering team, supporting our Pear Assessment product - a platform that provides real-time, interactive formative assessments, enabling teachers to capture diverse student responses, gain instant insights, and adapt instruction across live and self-paced learning environments.\nWith a passion for solving problems quickly and delivering high-quality code, you will build features that enable real-time formative assessments and actionable learning insights for educators. You’ll work across the full stack-from crafting intuitive React-based classroom experiences and interactive assessment workflows to designing scalable backend services and optimizing data pipelines that power instant feedback and analytics. You will also contribute to OpenSearch-powered semantic search capabilities, enabling fast and relevant discovery across more than 500 million educational documents. Our Engineering team thrives on a purpose-driven culture of collaboration, openness, trust, and transparency, with individuals who continuously push boundaries to improve teaching and learning outcomes.\n_________________________________________________________________________________________\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, build, and continually improve our Pear Assessment product and related services\nBuild and ship features that power real-time formative assessments and classroom engagement experiences for educators and students.\nDevelop & maintain high-performance backend services in Typescript that power the assessment platform\nDevelop intuitive, high-performance React interfaces for interactive assessments, dashboards, and data visualization\nDevelop and enhance OpenSearch-based semantic search systems to enable fast, relevant discovery across hundreds of millions of educational documents\nOptimize data pipelines and queries to deliver low-latency insights and feedback to teachers during live and asynchronous sessions\nCollaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to translate educational needs into impactful technical solutions.\nEnsure system reliability, scalability, and performance under high usage across classrooms and districts.\nContinuously improve code quality, testing practices, and engineering standards within a collaborative team environment.\nParticipate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives\nArchitect and operate cloud-native systems on AWS, leveraging services like SQS for asynchronous processing and event-driven workflows.\nWork with MongoDB and other data stores to model, store, and efficiently query large-scale assessment and engagement data.\nIntegrate AWS IoT services where applicable to support real-time classroom device interactions and data ingestion.\nIntegrate LLM/AI services to power intelligent features such as automated insights, content generation, and enhanced search relevance.\nWho You Are\n4+ years of professional industry experience building and delivering scalable software features in a production environment\nStrong experience with Javascript/Typescript/Nodejs/Python and familiarity with concurrency patterns, APIs, and service-oriented architecture\nExperience building modern React applications with TypeScript, including working with APIs, state management, and responsive UI components\nFamiliarity with designing and consuming APIs (REST/WSS) and contributing to backend services handling moderate to high traffic\nWorking knowledge of databases (SQL or NoSQL such as MongoDB/PostgreSQL), including basic query optimization and data modeling\nUnderstanding of caching concepts (e.g., Redis) and performance optimization techniques\nExperience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and services like S3, SQS, or similar\nExperience with modern frontend tooling and libraries (e.g., React Query, component libraries)\nAbility to build reliable, maintainable, and scalable features with guidance from senior engineers\nStrong ownership mindset with a focus on code quality, testing, and continuous improvement\nGood communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams\nComfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a willingness to learn and grow\nMotivated by the opportunity to build impactful products in the education space\nNice to Have\nExperience with big data analytics tools (AWS Athena, Spark, or similar query engines)\nExperience integrating with LLM/AI APIs (Gemini, OpenAI, or similar)\nExperience with message queues and event-driven architectures (SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ)\nPrior experience in EdTech or building products for K-12 education\nFamiliarity with containerization (Docker) and basic orchestration concepts\nExposure to data processing or aggregation workflows for generating insights from application data\nSomething else? Tell us! We want to learn more about you…\n What We Offer \nCompetitive pay, health insurance, accident insurance, life insurance, and a retirement savings plan.\nPaid annual leave, paid holidays, paid parental leave, paid leave for life events, and a paid year-end holiday break.\nA robust catalog of benefits that support your professional growth and personal wellbeing, including work from home funds, wellness checks, and more…\nPlus the intangible:\nA varied and challenging role in an innovative, global company.\nSupportive, driven colleagues who have your back and share your passion.\nPlease share this with your friends or co-workers who may be interested in working at GoGuardian! We have multiple openings and are always looking for talented people. \nGoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. 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