About Renaissance
When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.
Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer you will be one of the founding engineers on the Navigators team within Teacher & Learning Explorations. You will work across the seam where four mature products meet one shared discovery layer: designing the contracts between them, packaging their capabilities so they can be composed, and making search and curation work as one experience rather than four. You will be making it fast and intuitive for admins to govern and curate, for teachers to find and instruct, and for students to explore and grow their respective libraries.
In this role, as a Senior Software Engineer you will:
- Design and own the contracts between the Libraries and the four products — OpenAPI interfaces, typed message schemas, and the versioning discipline that keeps breaking changes from becoming someone else's outage.
- Build the discovery layer — search, relevance, and retrieval across a large and heterogeneous content library.
- Create and maintain continuous delivery pipelines for code, infrastructure, configuration, and data.
- Evolve the engineering culture, standards, and best practices — security, governance, new ideas — within the team, and help us decide the stack questions that are still open.
Qualifications
For this role, you must have:
- Substantial professional experience building and operating production backend services.
- Strong TypeScript, or strong proficiency in a comparably typed language and a genuine willingness to work in a strict-TypeScript codebase.
- Demonstrated ownership of API contracts in a multi-service system: designing them, versioning them, and testing against them.
- Cloud operations depth — you can design infrastructure, not only consume it, and you write infrastructure as code (we use Terraform on AWS).
- Release engineering depth — you have built and maintained continuous delivery pipelines and reduced toil in build and release systems.
- An effective communicator who collaborates well with distributed engineering, product, and design teams, and can explain a technical trade-off to a non-technical audience.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the level of the people around you.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
Additional information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Salary Range: The base range for this position is $109,500.00 - $150,550.00. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location.
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Benefits for eligible US employees include:
- World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
- Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs
Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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Reasonable Accommodations
Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.
Employment Authorization
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
For more information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com
Skills Required
- Substantial professional experience building and operating production backend services
- Strong TypeScript proficiency, or proficiency in a comparable typed language with willingness to work in a strict TypeScript codebase
- Experience designing, versioning, and testing API contracts in a multi-service system
- Cloud operations experience designing infrastructure and writing infrastructure as code using Terraform on AWS
- Release engineering experience building and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines and improving build and release systems
- Effective communication and collaboration with distributed engineering, product, and design teams, including explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical audiences
- Experience mentoring engineers and developing team capabilities
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
Renaissance Learning Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Renaissance Learning and has not been reviewed or approved by Renaissance Learning.
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Parental & Family Support — Up to 20 weeks parental leave (14 paid + 6 unpaid) with Milk Stork support is positioned as a standout among mid-size U.S. employers. Family-friendly policies and remote/hybrid flexibility bolster support for new parents.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, 12 paid holidays, flexible schedules, and volunteer time provide a broad time-off toolkit. Role-appropriate hybrid/remote options extend flexibility beyond standard PTO.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A premium Calm subscription, EAP, wellness resources, and tuition assistance add meaningful lifestyle and development value. Donation matching and volunteer time further enhance non-cash rewards.
Renaissance Learning Insights
What We Do
As a global leader in assessment, reading, and math solutions for pre-K–12 schools and districts, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. Renaissance solutions are used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide. The Renaissance portfolio includes Star Assessments, for reliable, accurate insights into K–12 student learning; myIGDIs, for accurate assessment of early learning; myON, to increase students’ access to high-quality reading materials; Accelerated Reader, to support independent reading practice; Freckle, for teacher-led differentiated instruction; and Schoolzilla, to give educators actionable insights into trends in student attendance and achievement. Why join the Renaissance team? We're award-winning! From employer of choice certifications to EdTech awards, Renaissance continues to be praised for our inclusive company culture & top-notch product offerings. In 2024, Renaissance earned a consecutive Great Place to Work® certification and was named to Fast Company's list of 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators! In 2023, we were also recognized as a Best Workplace for Women by Fortune magazine. Join our award-winning team today and help accelerate learning for all.
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