Sr. Full-Stack Software Engineer

Instructure, Inc.•Salt Lake City, UT

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. Instructure builds the platforms that power teaching, learning, assessment, and credentials worldwide; the makers of Canvas, Mastery, and Parchment. We’re mission-driven (openness, relationships, equality, ownership, and simplicity) and focused on helping learners thrive with a future-ready edtech ecosystem. We’re looking for a senior full-stack engineer to lead development of modern web experiences and services used globally by educators and learners. You’ll work across the stack from elegant, accessible UIs to resilient serverless backends and you’ll help us scale safely across regions and time zones.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant time in TypeScript and Node.js.
Deep experience with Next.js (server components, server actions, caching) and Tailwind in production.
Proven use of both Vercel and AWS (serverless and dockerized services).
Strong Postgres chops (schema design, query tuning, migrations; understanding of transactions and isolation).
Real-world experience operating multi-region/global apps (CDN/edge, geo-routing, blue/green & canary, DR).
Security mindset (authN/Z, OAuth/OIDC, secrets, OWASP), plus familiarity with FERPA/GDPR implications in edtech.
Excellent communication, product sense, and a bias for shipping.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Canvas LTI/OAuth integrations.
Exposure to Drizzle/Prisma, tRPC, or GraphQL.
Prior work with edge runtimes (Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers) and background jobs/queues.
Experience with analytics/feature flags (e.g., LaunchDarkly) and cost/perf tuning at scale.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and own production features in Node.js, TypeScript, Express, Next.js (App Router), and Tailwind CSS.
Develop serverless/edge APIs and jobs on Vercel and AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, EventBridge/Queues).
Develop Node.js dockerized API services
Model data and ship performant Postgres queries (migrations, indexing, connection mgmt, query optimization).
Architect multi-region deployments: traffic routing, latency budgets, failover/DR, config & secrets, and rollout strategies.
Build for international audiences: i18n/l10n pipelines, time-zone correctness, and data-residency considerations.
Instrument services with logs/metrics/traces (OpenTelemetry or similar) and drive incident-ready observability.
Champion accessibility (WCAG-aware UI), testing (unit/integration/e2e), CI/CD, and code reviews.
Mentor peers, collaborate with Product/Design, and contribute to technical direction.