Software Engineer - Systems Platform

About SchoolAI

We make school awesome everyday for students and the people supporting them by finding out what they need and making it happen.

We believe in the power of working shoulder to shoulder with great people on important problems. This role is based out of our beautiful Lehi, Utah office 3 days per week (Monday/Thursday/Friday), with at home days twice per week.

Values

We want everyone at SchoolAI to make a competitive wage, have fun, and do good. As we build out the team, we optimize for, and invest in, great people who:

• 🪄 Make Magic: You're making magic when you dream big, sweat the details, make the complex look elegant, and the final result is one that puts a smile on everyone's face. People are drawn to working with you and your work.
• ☀️ Rise to the Moment: You're rising to the moment when you show up, answer the call, make the extra effort, and appreciate the fact that we are working with the coolest technology, in the biggest space it’ll impact, and we’re in pole position.
• 🔗 Connect the Dots: You've done the work to prioritize, understand, and tie your work to your team, to students, and to the people who support them. You're driving tangible outcomes and can connect your work to meaningful, tangible business results and goals. You're connecting the dots when you've thought deeply and have a throughline narrative for your work.
• 🚀 Make High Leverage Bets: Always consider the board in front of you – using data, instinct, honed expertise, and user problems to pick the best move and maximize the impact of every resource. When the moment is right – go all in.
• ➡️ Simplify and Go: Cut through the noise. Focus on what’s essential and act with urgency. Speed is your ally, simplicity your tool. Embrace clarity and let it guide you to swift victories.

We use our core values to make decisions, evaluate work, and win. We expect that every team member demonstrate these values. In turn, we'll invest in you and your impact at SchoolAI.

SchoolAI is searching for talented Software Engineers to join our Systems Platform team. We believe in working as cross functional teams to build delightful products. You’ll work with a talented team of Product Managers, Infrastructure Engineers, Designers, Data Engineers, and AI/ML Engineers, to produce cutting edge software that’s delightful to use. An ideal candidate understands software development best practices and isn’t fooled into thinking that the outputs of what they build outweigh the outcomes of what they build. They’ll work well with others and be excited about the opportunity to work at an early stage startup.

About the role

• This role REQUIRES strong TypeScript knowledge and expertise
• Work with product management and design roles to understand and empathize with internal and external customer needs
• Build core services to support product feature teams including resource authorization/permissions, roles management and subscription management/entitlements
• Work with data scientists, data engineers, and AI/ML engineers to integrate and implement machine learning models into real world production environments
• Monitor the performance and adoption of what’s built to ensure we are headed in the right direction
• Help us attain absolute stability in our product by owning quality, comprehensive automated test creation, continuous delivery, and staged releases
• Participate in seeking healthy development and collaboration practices as a team
• Consider data privacy and security in everything we do
• Own and architect key components of our CI/CD pipelines and platform engineering efforts

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• Have 3+ years of backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Are familiar with managing and evolving relational database schemas
• You are enthusiastic about Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, and Developer productivity
• Have experience owning quality and writing automated tests
• Have a strong desire to pair program
• Are familiar with GCP, AWS, or an equivalent cloud platform
• Have excellent communication skills, and are enthusiastic about collaborating on and across cross-functional teams
• Are familiar with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Git/GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines (especially GitHub Actions)