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.
We're looking for an experienced, talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Student Activities team at Freckle by Renaissance — a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology. Freckle makes sure no student gets left behind through its adaptive, personalized practice programs. You'll bring your talents and expertise to continue building and scaling our highly available, distributed SaaS platform, used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.
The Student Activities team owns the applications that students, teachers, and school administrators use every day. As a senior member of the team, you'll own features end-to-end across the full stack and help set the technical direction that keeps these products fast, reliable, and easy to build on.
In this role as a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Architect, design, and develop features end-to-end for the students, teachers, and school administrators we serve — from the React/TypeScript frontend to the PostgreSQL backend, APIs, the infrastructure layer, and the data pipeline.
- Design data models and schemas that keep our systems correct, performant, and maintainable as they scale.
- Build and maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users and thousands of requests per second.
- Thoughtfully adopt AI tooling to accelerate your own work and improve how the team builds, ships and maintain software.
- Maintain and evolve backend services like our curricula-api and progress services that power student practice and reporting.
- Mentor and support other engineers, conduct code reviews, and champion strong engineering practices across the team.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, and communicate effectively in a distributed remote work environment.
- Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure prompt resolution of customer-facing incidents.
For this role as a Senior Software Engineer, you should have:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience shipping high-quality web-based software that solves important problems for large numbers of users.
- Strong full-stack proficiency: hands-on experience with React (or a comparable SPA framework) and TypeScript on the frontend, and building backend services and APIs.
- Solid data modeling skills and experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
- Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring other engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and a proven ability to thrive as part of an agile, multidisciplinary team.
Bonus Points:
- Experience with event-based / event-driven architecture.
- Experience with our infrastructure stack: AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3/CloudFront, Elasticache, Lambda) and Docker.
- Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and observability/telemetry tooling (Datadog, Bugsnag, or similar).
- A passion for education and improving outcomes for students and teachers
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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
- 5+ years of professional software development experience delivering web-based software at scale
- Strong full-stack experience with React or a comparable single-page application framework and TypeScript
- Experience building backend services and APIs
- Data modeling skills and experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring engineers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in an agile, multidisciplinary team
- Authorization to work for any employer in the United States
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.
