Senior Software Engineer - SaaS Applications

Strayer Education, Inc.

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on our SaaS platform team, you’ll help build and enhance Workforce Edge, an organization under Strategic Education Inc. (SEI) that delivers a modern education benefits education benefits platform for employers, learners, and academic institutions. Workforce Edge plays a key role in SEI’s mission of expanding economic mobility through innovative, career relevant education solutions, and your work will directly support a platform that helps organizations upskill their workforce and empowers employees to pursue affordable, flexible learning opportunities. In this role, you’ll shape the future of a mission critical, multitenant SaaS application from end to end. You’ll design, develop, test, and deploy new platform capabilities while collaborating closely with business analysts, product partners, and stakeholders to translate real user needs into scalable, high-quality solutions. We work in a true agile environment where engineers have a strong voice and the ability to see their work quickly make an impact. This is a full stack role with a strong emphasis on the backend and platform layer—APIs (GraphQL and REST), background job processing, integrations with third-party systems, and the data pipelines that keep a large-scale product running smoothly. You’ll tackle meaningful technical challenges while improving platform performance, reliability, and the overall user experience. To be successful, you should have demonstrated experience turning complex requirements into dependable software solutions, working across all tiers of an application, and applying strong object-oriented programming principles and modern software architecture patterns.

Requirements

• Four plus (4+) years of experience in web application design, development, and implementation.
• Four plus (4+) years of experience in Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript; strong experience with React or comparable.
• One Plus (1+) years of database experience with Postgres or Similar (modeling, queries, migrations, or ORMs).
• One Plus (1+) years of Cloud Platform experience with GCP and/or AWS (e.g. compute, storage, serverless, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain platform APIs (GraphQL, REST), webhooks, backend services, and own features from design through deployment.
• Implement and support background job processing, data pipelines, and integrations (e.g. file-based sync, third-party APIs).
• Evolve data models, schema, and migrations for a multi-tenant SaaS product; improve reliability (error handling, retries, observability).
• Mentor engineers; lead and participate in code review, technical design, and best practices.
• Collaborate with product, QA, and engineering; develop releases, test plans, and implementation plans; troubleshoot production issues and provide level 3 support.
• Promote Agile practices and automated builds.

Benefits

• SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week. In addition to medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts.
• Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime pay, if applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level