About
Who Are You? You bring strong backend and full stack technical expertise to your work as a Senior Software Engineer. You thrive in a collaborative, fast‑moving development environment, and are motivated to ensure your work has a positive impact.
Who Are We? We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities.
What Is This Role About? As a Senior Software Engineer here, you will join a Development team that is focused, professional and consistently driving innovation that shapes our industry‑leading digital language education products.
Our Technology Stack
Languages/Frameworks: Ruby/Rails, JS, Vue
Persistence: MySQL, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch
Hosting: AWS
In This Role You Will
Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Perform tests to optimize performance
Write clean code to develop functioning web applications
Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects
Required Skills
Bachelor’s Degree
7+ years of Senior level Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols
Advanced working knowledge of *nix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line
Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge
Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub
Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately
Ideal If You Have (Preferred Skills & Experience)
Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
Experience working with LLMs and AI tooling for developers
Experience with Ruby highly preferred
Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry
Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance
Location Boston-Hybrid or Remote - Eastern US Time Zone. Position requires current residence within the United States of America and within the eastern time zone. Ideal candidates will be located within close proximity to our Boston office location and be willing to work a Tuesday and Thursday (2-day minimum) Hybrid schedule. Relocation assistance is not available.
Salary $140k-$150k annual base salary range. This position is salaried and is eligible for an annual incentive based on employee and organizational performance.
Benefits We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities. Our benefits package includes life/health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), educational assistance, commuter pass subsidies, generous employee referral bonuses, PTO and paid holidays.
Equal Opportunity Vista Higher Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, and/or protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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Languages
- English
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