Senior Software Engineer, Platform - Timely

Who we are

School scheduling is a hard problem, one that technology was meant to solve. Yet for decades, the master schedule has been built by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time while delivering a sub-optimal result for students. We started Timely to build the tool we wish we had when we were in schools. And today, we are changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students. Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers: saving schedulers’ time, and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential.

About the role

This role is a Senior Software Engineer position with a strong focus on platform and infrastructure development. You and your team will own outcomes around stability, quality, maintainability, and speed of development for the Timely technical platform, encompassing infrastructure, tooling, development patterns, and critical shared libraries or components.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, design and deliver technical platform solutions spanning areas like cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure & patterns, shared product libraries, security practices, authentication platform and CI/CD tooling.
• Engage with engineering stakeholders to understand pain points and opportunities to enable Timely to deliver value quickly while maintaining quality.
• Drive the investigation and decisioning on key technology decisions impacting how Timely builds and maintains software.
• Own production availability by implementing observability and recovery practices for Timely applications while providing periodic on-call support.
• Uplevel the Timely engineering team on platform technologies and engineering patterns by maintaining documentation, presenting in different venues, providing cross-team design/code reviews, and mentoring team members.
• Own the delivery of critical projects by defining scope, creating tickets, and managing delivery timelines.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in infrastructure and platform engineering and comfort with AWS, Terraform, MongoDB, Python, and CI/CD via Github Actions (or equivalent technologies).
• Ability to design and develop solutions full-stack to deliver value for the engineering team and wider business, including in the Frontend when necessary.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional environments.
• Commitment to continuous improvement: seeking out and welcoming code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Experience working in agile environments and familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Pytest).
• Experience and comfort operating in a fast startup environment: strong ownership, self direction, prompt delivery of value to the customer & learnings for the business.
• Scaling and cyber security experience is preferable.
• Prior experience in EdTech is a plus but not required.
• Fully remote role with a preference for candidates based in NY or Boston.

Why Join Us

• Work with an exceptional team tackling meaningful challenges in education.
• Be part of a growing, financially healthy company with a proven product.
• Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision and life insurance, unlimited PTO, and professional development opportunities including free access to online learning programs.