At Guild, we unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education, skilling, and career mobility.
Senior Software Engineer
Location
Arizona + 29 moreAll locations: Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Idaho | Illinois | Kansas | Maine | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Virginia | Washington | Wisconsin
Posted
64 days ago
Salary
$150K - $180K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer
Guild
• Design and build robust, scalable systems that power data onboarding, eligibility workflows, and benefit policy administration. • Develop backend services, APIs, ETL pipelines, and internal tools using serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Glue, S3, API Gateway). • Create clean, testable, maintainable code in TypeScript/Node.js and Python following best practices and established patterns. • Ensure system observability, security, and performance using tools like Datadog and CloudWatch. • Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, internal ops, and customer technical teams to deliver high-impact features. • Write and maintain comprehensive tests (unit, contract, BDD, and end-to-end) and support CI/CD pipelines for consistent delivery. • Participate in Agile ceremonies and on-call rotations, with a focus on production readiness, system health, and issue resolution. • Contribute to system architecture decisions, technical documentation, and mentoring of junior developers.
Job Requirements
- 5+ Years Hands-on Experience with: TypeScript/Node.js, Python, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, GraphQL, REST APIs.
- Experience with AWS tools: Lambda, Glue, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS, Secrets Manager, CDK, Serverless Framework.
- Knowledge of: ETL pipeline development, CSV/API data ingestion, data transformation, event-driven architecture.
- Testing & Tooling: Jest, Pact, Cypress, Gherkin, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (AWS CDK/CloudFormation).
- AI Experience: Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI) and building AI-powered features such as virtual assistants, summarization tools, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. Proficient in using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) with a solid understanding of their application in production-grade environments.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.
- Ability to balance technical decisions with business goals and deliver pragmatic solutions.
- A passion for Guild’s mission to unlock opportunity through education and upskilling.
Benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Vacation policy to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
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