Senior Software Engineer

About Us

AstrumU is a data services company based in Bellevue, WA that is leveling the playing field by identifying skills gap recommendations, so that individuals can achieve their career objectives. AstrumU quantifies skills and affinities developed through education, training, and professional experiences of all types. The AstrumU AI Translation Engine ingests verified data from learning, skills, and labor market outcomes to measure, map and make recommendations based on the probable impact to outcomes. We are on a mission to quantify the return on educational investments for all learners, education providers and employers, so everyone can maximize their potential in the Future of Work.

Using predictive models constantly updated to meet the evolving needs of a changing economy, our platform allows institutions to accurately forecast the labor market value of educational experiences to equip students, faculty, and advisors with information on how learning translates to marketable skills in the workforce. Going beyond publicly-available data and job boards, we are the only technology solution that uses industry-verified data—from proprietary employer sources—to match educational inputs to workforce outcomes.

Our investors currently include Kingdom Capital, Ignition Partners, Correlation Ventures, City Light Capital, the University of Kansas, Arizona State University and private investors.

Your Role

We are looking for experienced engineers to help us design and build our platform, microservices, applications, and APIs. You’ll be working collaboratively across Engineering, Data Science, Product, DevOps, and Sales/Solution Engineers. This is an influential role at AstrumU, and you will have the opportunity for significant impact and ownership on our platform, marketplace applications, and growing our teams.

We are a mission driven team with a big ambition! We are fast-paced, results focused, value over communication, and committed to providing a mutually respectful work environment. Your passion for quality code, respect for your craft, your team, and your customers will make you feel at home. You will thrive in taking ownership and delivering great work in agile environments.

In this role, you’ll be involved in all aspects of our SDLC, evolving our services and applications using Typescript (at times Python), Azure Kubernetes Service deployed with Pulumi, CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and GraphQL for APIs. You’ll become intimately familiar with AstrumU ’s products and SaaS business, implement/adhere to our audit/control requirements, and contribute to our business and technology strategies.

Your Responsibilities

• Implement new business functionality in the AstrumU application platform to meet business and customer requirements, working closely with product management and customers
• Participate in an Agile/Lean framework to ensure team ownership and effective execution in delivering working software solutions that are driven by market need.
• View communication as a critical part of your job, and over communicate technology decisions, issues and plans to team members, management and Leverage data to augment your analysis and recommendations.
• Support ongoing development maintenance of existing application functionality, refactoring of the existing code base, and working closely with the product management to address issues that are escalated for resolution.
• Work collaboratively with our distributed engineering teams to mature our development processes and develop/champion guidelines, technology and architecture strategy, and third-party vendor relationships.
• Work closely with our data science team to incorporate predictive insights derived from our AI models using data from students, schools and employers.
• Actively support, coach, and grow fellow software engineers and foster an inclusive environment that engages your peers in sharing expertise and learning from the larger software group. Participate in interviewing and onboarding new team members.
• Upgrade your skills and our team knowledge by staying current with technology and development tools/techniques, participating in self-directed learning, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential and adhering to AstrumU’s Information Security and Management policies.

Your Skills and Qualifications

• 4-year degree in a technical CS degree is a significant plus, MS is a plus.
• At least 3-8 years of programming experience in a professional environment
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript or other scripting languages like PHP, Go or Ruby
• Good knowledge of microservice architecture, experience building backend microservices, and debugging complex distributed systems. Experience building enterprise systems or other related applications, especially in the SaaS model is a plus
• Solid understanding and application of software engineering methodologies and best practices including estimation, design documentation, testing microservices, PR and release management.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure preferred) and infrastructure components such as Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions.
• Strong database development skills (SQL / NoSQL experience).
• Strong object-oriented programming design skills. Understanding of and practical experience implementing common design A strong understanding of best practices in writing structured, readable and maintainable code.
• Systems/Unit Testing and test-driven development (TDD).
• Familiarity with leading Agile practices such as XP, TDD, continuous integration, and Scrum
• Creative and detail-oriented with excellent written, spoken, and presentation skills for expressing technical ideas and initiatives. Able to simplify complex concepts for non-technical clients.

What We Offer

AstrumU pays a gross annualized base salary range for this position of $150,000 to $190,000 based on qualifications, skills, experience, and company values and culture alignment. Hiring at the maximum of the range is not typical to allow for future and continued compensation growth.

Additionally, the following key benefits are offered for this full-time role (more details provided after hire):

• Choice of PPO or HSA plans for medical, dental, and vision insurance; 100% company-paid premiums for employee only; dependents can be added for an employee-paid premium cost
• Company-provided short & long-term disability, and life insurance plans
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Self-managed PTO
• 10 company-paid holidays per year
• Stock options
• Commuter transportation benefit & free parking

AstrumU is unable to offer VISA sponsorship at this time.

AstrumU is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.