Lightspeed Systems
Software Engineer (Go / Full Stack)
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Austin, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ March 6th, 2025
CI/CD
Docker
Kafka
Edtech.com's Summary
Lightspeed Systems is hiring a Software Engineer (Go / Full Stack). This role involves designing, building, maintaining, and having a substantial impact on Lightspeed's digital platform. The engineer will collaborate with cross-departmental teams to develop features, uphold best practices, and optimize platform performance.
Highlights
- Main responsibilities include full-stack development, collaborating with designers and product managers, and building services to meet company needs.
- Proficiency in Go and JavaScript, along with experience in microservices, SQL/NoSQL databases, and React/Redux, is required.
- The role includes performance monitoring and API upgrades planning.
- Experience with Docker, GIT, CI/CD, and RESTful APIs is essential.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, along with a 401(k) match, are part of the benefits.
- Applicants need strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Includes paid parental leave and a robust PTO policy.
- Self-starters with the ability to work under pressure and within a team are preferred.
Software Engineer (Go / Full Stack) Full Description
Do you love solving problems, collaborating with dedicated colleagues, and changing the world for the better? Our development team is growing and we’re looking for a Full Stack Go Software Engineer to help us build our suite of award-winning solutions. You’ll get to work on cutting-edge tech that’s making a real difference. Our software developers aren’t just coders, they’re problem-solvers who work closely with QA, Product, and other departments to find out-of-the-box solutions to the challenges our customers face. As a Software Engineer on our team, you will have the opportunity to design, build, test, maintain, and have a direct and meaningful impact on the roadmap of the digital platform.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
- Identify and uphold Full stack engineering best practices
- Collaborate with designers & product managers to iterate on the design & implementation of our product
- Work with Engineers from our consumers to build and ship features
- Design a framework for creating services that grows with the needs of the company
- Monitor performance, watch for traffic drops related to usability problems & rectify the issues
- Review app and feature code, and plan future API upgrades with the development team
- Assist in the development of applications & features that will be put on the website, mobile app, and external client apps
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies
- Work with with modern libraries and tooling
- Strong analytical problem solving skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter with strong initiative, quality deliverable and ability to work under pressure
- Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment
NOTE:
- This is a hybrid position and several days each week will be required onsite at our Austin, Texas headquarters.
- Sponsorship is not available for this position.
ABOUT YOU:
- 3+ years of experience developing large scale web applications using GO and Javascript
- Proficiency in Go and JavaScript, including data structures and modern libraries/tooling
- Experience with microservices architecture and development
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL Databases (e.g., Oracle, Postgres, Cassandra)
- Experience with React and Redux
- Experience with messaging architectures & development (Kafka or equivalent)
- Proven experience in building RESTful APIs and understanding of REST principles
- Hands-on experience with Docker or similar technologies, GIT, CI/CD and writing unit/integration tests
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter with strong initiative, delivering high-quality work under pressure
- Business-minded approach to time, costs, and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to work well within a team environment
Bonus Points:
- Experience with AWS
- Background in JavaScript, Node, and React ecosystem
- Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment
- Experience designing high-volume, fault-tolerant, highly available, globally distributed systems in a cloud-native environment
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Knowledge of A/B testing, monitoring, and alerting practices
- Energetic, flexible, collaborative, team player and good interpersonal skills
- A passion for keeping up-to-date with the latest cloud trends and technologies
ABOUT US
With more than 25 years of serving education, Lightspeed Systems delivers the most in-depth visibility and control to power exceptional schools where students are safe and engaged; technology is compliant and easily managed; and resources are secure and optimized. Purpose-built for school networks and devices, Lightspeed’s cloud-managed solutions include the most effective web filtering, student safety monitoring, classroom management, device management, and data analytics software available. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with a European office in London, UK, Lightspeed serves over 23 million students across 31,000 schools in 43 countries, utilizing 15 million devices. Learn more at www.lightspeedsystems.com.
We love our employees, and we show it. A sneak peek into our BENEFITS & PERKS include:
- Health-- Medical, dental and vision insurance with healthy company contribution toward premiums. Lightspeed kicks cash into your HSA if you participate in our HDHP.
- Wellness-- Paid parental leave. Healthy holiday and PTO policy, including Christmas to New Year’s Day break.
- Retirement-- 401(k) matching up to 6%
- Other -- Work from where it makes sense. Pet insurance.
ABOUT OUR ATX HQ
If “work from where it makes sense” includes being onsite for you some or all the time, you will LOVE being at the ranch. Our uniquely Lightspeed (and totally Texas) corporate headquarters has everything Lightspeeders need to get the job done – and a whole lot more.
- 15,000 sq. ft. of open work area, offices, and huddle rooms
- Snacks galore and a private chef serving up lunch Tuesday through Thursday every week
- A state-of-the-art fitness center (with outfitted locker rooms)
- Physical therapist onsite regularly
- Indoor and outdoor casual collaboration spots
- Pet-friendly office environment
- A golf simulator, go-carts, shuffleboard, corn hole, and MORE fun
All within 31 sprawling acres of Live Oak trees that foster a natural habitat for local wildlife. It is not uncommon to be greeted daily by whitetail deer. (Maybe it wants to join your meeting?)
Lightspeed Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, or other protected characteristic.
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