Backend Django Software Engineer

SchooLinks•Austin, TX

4h•$100,000 - $140,000•Remote

About The Position

SchooLinks is a venture-backed ed-tech company that is changing how students explore and pursue their post-high school goals. We have a suite of over 80 tools for students and school staff including college application management, course planning, financial situations, personality assessments, college profiles, and many others. We're looking for a highly experienced Django back-end engineer who will write high-quality code, make sound and scalable architectural decisions, and help grow our team by bringing and evangelizing best practices. Presently, we're only looking for US-based engineers that live in Central or Eastern Timezone. We do not have the ability to sponsor H1-B Visas. Additionally, please note this role is for highly experienced software engineers with deep Django and Django Rest Framework (DRF) experience. You'll be working with a talented team of engineers, designers, and product people who have shipped 50+ features in the last 3 years and have established SchooLinks as a company that has found product-market fit and transitioned us into a hyper-growth phase.

Requirements

5+ years of Django and Dango Rest Framework experience
3 + years of experience working with AWS
3+ years of experience working with SQL databases in production
Experience building, supporting, and planning production
Experience with asynchronous task management

Nice To Haves

Celery
Redis
React.js
ETL and data integration with third-party systems such as Student Information Systems
Educational data
Workforce development and career exploration
Predictive analytics around educational outcomes

Responsibilities

Ship clean, readable, and maintainable backend Django code
Contribute and proactively elevate the quality of our codebase by writing tests and addressing technical debt
Participate in the product development process from start to finish, reviewing requirements and user stories to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
Design and build solutions that will scale to millions of users
Participate in on-call rotations