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Senior Software Engineer
Frontline Education is the leading provider of school administration software, empowering strategic K-12 leaders with the right tools, data and insights to proactively manage human capital, business operations and special education. Educational organizations representing over 80,000 schools and millions of educators, administrators and support personnel have partnered with Frontline Education in their efforts to develop the next generation of learners. Frontline is dedicated to driving engagement across K-12 school systems and supporting the continuous improvement of employee effectiveness and efficiency with solutions for proactive recruiting and hiring, absence and time, professional growth, student information systems, special education and interventions, payroll, benefits and financial management.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to participate in the agile development scrum team designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting elegant, scalable and reliable software solutions for our customers. This is a fast-paced and exciting role that provides opportunities to work on a wide array of projects.
This role reports to the Development Manager and works closely with Development, Architecture, Product, Customer Success, SassIO and Strategic Partners to deliver solutions that simplify the daily work life of the front line of education.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate the ability to acquire new skills and techniques and apply them within assigned engineering tasks
- Perform analysis and troubleshooting of complex software constructs
- Participate in defining coding standard practices and procedures for adoption by the team and technology organization
- Lead the research, design, and development efforts of moderately complex software components
- Construct unit tests over complex algorithms to ensure a high degree of quality in code
- Receive direction and coaching from more experienced engineers and mentor less experienced engineers
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team and across the technology organization
- Participate in reviewing and providing feedback on complex code algorithms
- Author complex technical documentation and design sketches at a feature level
- Provide high level estimates at an epic level
- Participate in functional requirements review with Product Owner
- Able to recognize and adjust when a task is becoming a time-sink
- Help others see that quality is critical to the success of a project
- Encourage the team to stay focused and on track moving towards the team sprint commitment
- Ask probing/clarifying questions during a discussion to ensure all ideas are vetted
- Represent the team in cross-functional meetings
- Respectfully identifies potential "trouble spots" with other's ideas during discussions
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5 years’ experience in the following is required:
- Software Development using .Net frameworks (4.5 , Core)
- Agile methodology
- C#, ASP.Net and Relational Databases
- JavaScript Framework
- CI-CD Pipelines
- ORM Tools
- AWS Services
- React experience preferred
About Frontline Education
We are a group of unique and talented individuals that love what we do. We've been lucky enough to land jobs with a rapidly growing tech company that supports an appreciative and friendly customer base. We work hard to make our customers happy, but we like to have a good time in the process. We are a company that strives to think in terms of “we” instead of “me.” We believe in the philosophy of servant leadership and that it’s all about putting others first. We also value the balance between family and work.
Frontline offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary, rewarding bonus structure, 401k match, and unlimited PTO! Our company growth has created a promising environment for career advancement and rewarding challenges.
Vision: A connected future for school administration that enables every leader, teacher, and student to thrive.
Mission: Partnering with the education community by providing innovative technology and best practices to empower K-12 schools in their pursuit of excellence.
Frontline Education is proud to be a drug free workplace and an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.