SchooLinks is a modern college- and career-readiness platform designed to empower K–12 districts with tools that help students discover paths, plan their futures, and achieve post-secondary success. We are a fast-growing, mission-driven team building intuitive, data-driven products for counselors, administrators, students, and families.
We are looking for a Product Support Software Engineer who combines strong technical debugging skills with empathy for users. You will work at the intersection of engineering, customer success, and product to diagnose issues, support data workflows, build internal tools, and ensure a stable and accurate experience for our district partners.
Role ResponsibilitiesThe Product Support Software Engineer plays a critical role in both production issue triage and data-related troubleshooting.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot product-related issues.
- Investigate and resolve problems related to data configurations, system settings, user permissions, and workflow logic.
- Troubleshoot data inconsistencies and malformed datasets using Python, Pandas, and Django ORM.
- Investigate issues arising from district-specific configurations and SIS integrations.
- Validate and analyze data transformations and end-to-end data flows.
- Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the district data ingestion pipeline, which processes high-volume datasets from various sources.
- Identify and resolve ETL failures, mapping errors, transformation issues, and validation gaps.
- Work to improve pipeline reliability, scalability, and accuracy.
- Write and maintain custom scripts for tasks such as:
- Report generation
- One-off or recurring data transformations
- Data movement between users
- Cleanup or validation routines
- Build internal tools that streamline debugging, data validation, or support operations.
- Act as a technical escalation point for customer success on data and configuration issues.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams on root cause analysis and long-term solutions.
Requirements
- 4+ years experience in software engineering, technical support engineering, or similar roles.
- Strong proficiency with Python and Django in a production environment.
- Experience using Pandas for data manipulation, analysis, and transformation.
- Hands-on SQL experience and comfort working with large datasets.
- Strong debugging skills and ability to trace issues across data and backend systems.
- Clear English communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with ETL pipelines or high-volume data ingestion systems.
- Familiarity with Celery, MySQL/PostgreSQL, AWS Lambda, or other AWS systems.
- Experience with scripting or automation for support operations.
- Background in EdTech or K–12 data systems is a plus.
- Experience with frontend frameworks (React) is helpful but not required.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible PTO
- Mission-driven culture focused on improving education
- Collaborative team environment with opportunities for growth
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What We Do
SchooLinks is a college and career readiness platform with curriculum that engages students throughout the process of self discovery, career education and college planning and application. The student-centric experience is able to create a wealth of behavioral data, and its machine learning algorithms leverage those data to personalize college recommendations and content to further drive student engagement. SchooLinks then serves actionable insights to counselors that help them act in real time to become more effective. On a district level, the sophisticated data models power a full suite of accountability tools to allow administrators to monitor and achieve desired college and career readiness outcomes.
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