Senior Software Engineer II (Expansion)

Articulate

22d • Remote

About The Position

Articulate is looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our Expansion team! The newly formed Expansion team is focused on pushing Articulate’s products beyond their traditional use cases.

As an industry leader, Articulate helps our customers create better courses for 100+ million learners in 187 countries, including all of the Fortune 100. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a global platform and ship features directly to some of the largest companies in the world.

Requirements

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces, with a bias toward shipping quickly to test, learn, and iterate.
• Proven experience building and scaling production software systems, often gained over 8+ years, with demonstrated technical depth and breadth.
• Deep expertise in backend and frontend technologies. We use Node.js, Postgres, Docker, React, TypeScript.
• Proficiency developing and maintaining services on AWS, with strongwithstrong operational skills using tools like Datadog or equivalent APMs.
• Experience building secure, compliant distributed applications with a strong focus on scalability, observability, and resilience.
• Commitment to accessibility and inclusive design in software development.
• Outstanding communication skills, with an ability to clearly explain technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A track record of technical leadership, mentoring others, and influencing engineering direction beyond your immediate team.

Responsibilities

• Partner cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align technical solutions with customer needs.
• Drive outcomes with a high degree of autonomy, focusing on impact and quality results.
• Lead development of new features and enhancements, balancing speed of delivery with scalability, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
• Influence technical direction, driving design discussions, evaluating tradeoffs, and introducing frameworks and patterns that raise the engineering bar.
• Contribute to a world-class engineering culture in a remote-first environment.
• Mentor and support engineers at multiple levels: coaching, reviewing work, and fostering technical excellence across teams.
• Guide incident response and operations by anchoring on-call rotations and helping others navigate complex challenges.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees