Staff Software Engineer - School Safety Platform
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GoGuardianEducation Technology
United StatesFull-TimeStaff
Salary$190,000 - $220,000 per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- OAuthDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
- Proven track record of owning and delivering complex backend or full-stack systems end-to-end.
- Strong experience designing distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications.
- Experience building integration-heavy platforms involving third-party APIs, webhooks, data synchronization, and identity systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, data modeling, observability, reliability, performance, and security.
- Experience handling sensitive data and building systems where privacy, security, and compliance are architectural requirements.
- Demonstrated success delivering 0-to-1 products or major platform initiatives in environments with significant ambiguity.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead through collaboration rather than authority.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, technical design, and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production.
- Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams and systems.
- Design scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems that operate reliably in real-world environments.
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms, identity providers, communication systems, hardware devices, and external data sources.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to translate customer needs into practical technical solutions.
- Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and help shape the technical culture of a growing organization.
- Make thoughtful technology decisions that balance customer impact, operational complexity, speed of execution, and long-term maintainability.
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