Senior Software Engineer - Grading Operations

• Use AI tooling, with a preference for Claude, routinely across software design, architecture, and implementation, while owning the quality of what ships

• Build backend services, APIs, and data models that power the internal applications our grading and authentication teams rely on every day

• Work across a mix of architectures, from a large containerized .NET application to smaller serverless APIs and Python background processing jobs, and help decide which is the right fit for new work

• Design and implement event-driven and asynchronous systems that keep operational data flowing reliably at high volume

• Contribute to frontend application development using JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue.js to deliver features end to end

• Collaborate with Product, Tech, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into clean technical designs across both backend and frontend systems

• Troubleshoot data, integration, service, and UI issues across a large, long-lived codebase

• Share in an on-call rotation supporting the services the team owns

• Contribute to technical documentation to improve maintainability, knowledge sharing, and team velocity

• Help raise the bar on system design, code quality, observability, and engineering best practices across the team

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production applications, with substantial experience in backend systems and some hands-on experience delivering frontend work

• 3+ years experience / strong proficiency in C# and .NET

• Routine use of AI tooling as part of how you design and build software, with the judgment to review and take responsibility for what it produces

• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and service integrations

• Sound judgment about where code belongs, including how to draw module boundaries inside a large application and when a capability warrants its own service

• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests for services running in production

• Strong fundamentals working with relational databases and data modeling (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL)

• Hands-on experience building and operating production services in the cloud, including container orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), serverless compute behind an API gateway, and managed messaging and data stores

• Comfortable working in a modern frontend codebase, with hands-on experience in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and a component-based framework

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation), and monitoring and observability tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, Datadog)

• Strong communication and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to document what you build

• Experience turning complex requirements from Product and Operations partners into clean, extensible systems

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• Experience designing asynchronous, event-driven, and distributed systems

• Experience with any of AWS, Python (including test frameworks such as pytest or unittest), Apache Kafka, DynamoDB, or Vue.js

• Experience partnering closely with Product, and comfort working directly with the operations and business teams who use what you build

• Experience making high-volume workflows faster, in the interface or behind it, where shaving seconds off a repeated task adds up across thousands of items

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