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 Software Engineer III, you will build features across the discovery layer and the products behind it: the search and browse experiences teachers use to find the right lesson, the curation tools admins use to govern what their district sees, and the services that make four separate products feel like one library. 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. You will work with a high degree of independence and help ensure that problems and solutions are appropriately scoped.
In addition, you will be the first team to adopt Renaissance’s S3 model of software development. You will be expected to build multi-agent orchestration, where specialized agents coordinate on complete features and engineers shift from managing individual tasks to designing the systems that produce the work.
In this role as a Software Engineer III, you will:
- Build features across the discovery layer and the products it connects — search and browse for teachers, curation and governance for admins, exploration for students.
- Develop backend services that leverage relational databases, non-relational datastores, message queuing, and cloud infrastructure, against typed contracts.
- Build and test frontend experiences in TypeScript and React, contract-tested against the backend, with accessibility treated as a requirement rather than a follow-up.
- Write the tests and the instrumentation with the feature — unit, component, and contract tests, plus the traces, metrics, and logs that make the system debuggable.
Qualifications
For this role, you must have:
- Professional experience building and shipping production web applications or services.
- Experience developing backend services against relational databases, and comfort with non-relational datastores, message queuing, and/or cloud infrastructure.
- Excitement to help craft a new, AI-first software development lifecycle. The idea of encoding engineering understanding into formal constraints that can be consumed by an AI workflow is an interesting problem to you, not a necessary evil.
- Working knowledge of cloud operations — you can deploy across environments, read a dashboard, and troubleshoot an application problem in a cloud environment.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate well with distributed engineering, product, and design teams.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
Experience with various engineering technologies such as:
- SQL (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
- Proficiency in a typed language, ideally TypeScript, and comfort working in a strictly typed codebase.
Optionally, you could have:
- Experience leading and mentoring others
- Experience with the AWS technologies
- Knowledge of DevOps processes and technologies
Additional information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Salary Range: The base range for this position is $99,500.00 - $136,800.00. This range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location.
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
- Professional experience building and shipping production web applications or services
- Experience developing backend services against relational databases
- Comfort working with non-relational datastores, message queuing, and/or cloud infrastructure
- Interest in crafting an AI-first software development lifecycle and encoding engineering understanding into formal constraints for AI workflows
- Working knowledge of cloud operations, including deploying across environments, reading dashboards, and troubleshooting cloud applications
- Effective communication and collaboration skills with distributed engineering, product, and design teams
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
- Knowledge of SQL, including MSSQL or PostgreSQL
- Proficiency in a typed language, ideally TypeScript, and comfort working in a strictly typed codebase
- Experience leading and mentoring others
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Knowledge of DevOps processes and technologies
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.
