About the Product
Niche is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students, by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply. Niche is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day.
About the Role
We are seeking a seasoned and resourceful Software Engineer to join our growing product team. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and enhancing services and user-facing features across our platform, with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, scalability, and user experience. You'll leverage your expertise spanning the entire stack, from database interactions to front-end libraries, contributing significantly to our technical direction and mentoring other engineers.
* Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable full-stack applications and features across a modern tech stack, including Typescript, React, Go, and Postgres.
* Focus on improving our user experience, collaborating with designers to implement intuitive interfaces and finding creative ways to reduce user pain points.
* Build and enhance microservices, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and scalability within our distributed systems.
* Ensure the quality of our products remains high by contributing to automated testing strategies and participating actively in code reviews.
* Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, QA analysts, and other engineers within an Agile development framework.
* Contribute to engineering best practices, identifying and driving improvements in our processes, architecture, and technology stack.
* Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a collaborative environment and sharing your expertise.
You may be a good fit for this role if you:
* Are passionate about coding and creating scalable systems and fantastic user experiences.
* Embrace a growth mindset by continuously questioning established ideas and learning from your experiences.
* Exhibit humility and a collaborative spirit, fostering a positive work environment while valuing the contributions of others without ego.
* Value autonomy and empowerment to make your own decisions.
The first three months as a Software Engineer at our company will involve:
* Pairing with other engineers to learn more about our tech stack, the products we support, and our development standards and processes.
* Contributing to automated testing platforms and beginning to contribute to our test coverage.
* Collaborating with product team members to implement and ship small features and functionality.
Within six months, you will have grown as a contributing member of a product team, providing input and insight to the rest of the team on challenges and feasibility of proposed development, and confidently implementing new functionality and fix bugs across our stack. Within 12 months, you will solidify understanding of the breadth of our tech stack, including underlying infrastructure, internal tools, front end applications, and how they interact with our back-end services. You will be a subject matter expert for the product team's areas of responsibility.
We are looking for candidates with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience, and 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience with Typescript, React, and SQL databases, a strong understanding of common data structures and design patterns, and proficiency in using unit testing frameworks and common git operations.