Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GoGuardian is an innovative learning company focused on improving K-12 education and safety. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of new school safety products, creating technology that enhances student safety and operational reliability in educational environments.
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
Skills
- 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
- Experience in one or more of the following areas is valuable: * Real-time, high-reliability, or operationally critical systems. * Distributed, event-driven, or edge-to-cloud architectures. * IoT platforms, connected devices, device fleet management, or hardware integrations. * Software platforms that interact with physical devices, kiosks, peripherals, sensors, or other endpoint technologies. * Physical security, operational technology, critical infrastructure, or other environments where reliability and resilience are essential. * Large-scale distributed systems that integrate with numerous third-party platforms and external systems
Benefits
- Complete health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Employee equity plan
- Flexible time off
- Paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Paid year-end holiday break
- Work from home funds
- Fertility & adoption reimbursement
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