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Vista Higher Learning

Sr Full stack Software Engineer

boston, MA

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About this opportunity

Vista Higher Learning lists this Sr Full stack Software Engineer opportunity in boston, Massachusetts. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Who are you?

You bring strong backend and full stack technical expertise to your work as a Senior Software Engineer. You thrive in a collaborative, fast‑moving development environment, and are motivated to ensure your work has a positive impact.

Who are we?

We are passionate, innovative, lifelong learners, and creative thinkers working to develop culturally authentic language learning products for K-12 schools and universities.

What is this role about?

As a Senior Software Engineer here, you will join a Development team that is focused, professional and consistently driving innovation that shapes our industry‑leading digital language education products.

Our technology stack

Languages/Frameworks: Ruby/Rails, JS, Vue

Persistence: MySQL, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch

Hosting: AWS

In this role you will

Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Perform tests to optimize performance

Write clean code to develop functioning web applications

Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects

You must have (minimum required skills & experience)

Bachelor’s Degree

7+ years of Senior level Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript

Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design

Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols

Advanced working knowledge of *nix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line.

Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge

Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub

Experience collaborating with other departments/teams

Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately

Ideal if you have or are (preferred skills & experience)

Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service

Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch

Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS

A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance

Experience working with LLMs and AI tooling for developers

Experience with Ruby highly preferred

Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry

Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance

Location: Boston-Hybrid or Remote - Eastern US Time Zone

Position requires current residence within the United States of America and within the eastern time zone. Ideal candidates will be located within close proximity to our Boston office location and be willing to work a Tuesday and Thursday (2-day minimum) Hybrid schedule. Relocation assistance is not available.

Salary: $140k-$150k annual base salary range

This position is salaried and is eligible for an annual incentive based on employee and organizational performance.

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Worksite address

boston, MA, 02298, US

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