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Contract: Senior Software Engineer, Back End

1 hour, 28 minutes ago
Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica
Contract
Senior
Backend Engineer
Software Development
AWS AWS SES Terraform
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Newsela

Newsela

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject. They provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With a focus on meaningful classroom le...

Diversified Consumer Services
251-1K
Founded 2013
$172M raised
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Description

  • Design, build, and maintain software platform components for attendance analytics, process management, and family communication tools.
  • Maintain and improve student and attendance data systems so they remain performant and scalable as data volumes grow.
  • Develop new product features that improve capabilities and support better outcomes for schools and students.
  • Automate operational and monitoring processes to improve reliability and scalability.
  • Optimize AWS infrastructure to improve performance, efficiency, and system resilience.
  • Contribute to technical discussions and help shape practical, scalable solutions.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to translate product needs into technical solutions and deliver high-quality outcomes.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong foundation in scalable backend systems.
  • Advanced proficiency in a core stack or similar technologies.
  • Experience with AWS infrastructure and tools such as Terraform, ECS, RDS/Aurora, SES, and messaging systems like SQS/SNS.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities while delivering high-quality work on time.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts, trade-offs, and decisions to different stakeholders.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous and evolving environments with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
  • Experience collaborating across teams to drive alignment, communicate progress, and deliver shared goals.
  • Experience working across multiple areas of the stack in broad-scope environments.
  • Experience in education or education technology is a plus.
  • Fluent in English, both written and verbal, is required.

Benefits

  • This contract role is not eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.
  • Remote work arrangement (#LI-Remote).

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