Compensation

Competitive

Contract type

Full time

Remote working

Technologies & frameworks

Haskell
AWS

Benefits & perks

Remote working
Health insurance
Paid sick days
Daily stand up
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) matching
Parental leave
Paid time off
Life insurance

Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture

Role overview

We are seeking a highly talented Staff Engineer to join an agile multi-disciplinary engineering team at Freckle. Play a key role in an impact driven culture and apply your expertise and leadership to make our team and company better. Your influence will help shape how we continue to build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide. This position directly reports to the Sr. Director of Engineering Freckle R & D.

In this role you will:

Mentor senior engineers, conduct code reviews and provide feedback
Bring brilliant ideas to the team and communicate the vision of the ideal state
Design infrastructure and automated systems to support our distributed architecture
Manage CI/CD pipelines and constantly improve reliability, speed and efficiency
Forecast infrastructure needs in our fast-growing SaaS environment
Collaborate with other engineering teams to resolve infrastructure issues
Maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users and 1000’s of requests per second

Environment & Team:

The department is currently 12 people, organized into tightly knit teams that routinely collaborate. This is a highly creative impact driven environment where you pull your own work. AWS, Postgres, Haskell with YSOD Framework, React with Redux, moving from JavaScript to TypeScript in a heavy API environment with Infrastructure-as-Code deployments.

Qualifications

BS in Information Systems or equivalent industry experience is required.
5+ years hands-on experience with public cloud infrastructure is required.
4+ years hands-on experience working in an IaC environment with CloudFormation, TerraForm or Kubernetes is required.
3+ years hands-on experience managing SQL databases is required.
Interest in learning a functional programming language such as Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc. is required.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills is required.
AWS, CloudFormation, PostgreSQL and Haskell experience is preferred.
Some interest in full-stack web application technology from CSS to AWS is preferred.

Renaissance Learning

250+
Wisconsin Rapids, WI, US

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology. Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide. Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.