Senior Software Engineer

CourseStorm streamlines access to education by providing powerful class registration, enrollment management, and marketing tools that are simple for learners and educators to use. We’ve already connected over 1,000,000 students with education – and we’re growing fast. We’re seeking a motivated, curious, and skilled Software Engineer to help us build the future of our platform and amplify the impact we can have.

You'll be a core member of the Product Team, working on projects to help expand CourseStorm's feature set and continue to refine its exceptional user experience. We're looking for someone who genuinely enjoys learning, listening, and collaborating to make software that people love to use. You'll be part of an energized startup environment filled with interesting challenges as an early part of our rapidly growing team.

Responsibilities

• Engineer features, updates, and fixes based on the needs of CourseStorm's current and future customers, working both independently and collaboratively
• Review code from other team members for quality assurance and to provide feedback on implementation methods
• Develop new tools to help capture and analyze data to improve our user experience, onboarding and sales process, and support efficiency
• Support the Product Team’s overall goal of creating a powerful product that’s simple to use
• Deliver high-quality work in a timely manner to support CourseStorm’s focus on an unmatched user experience
• Assist junior developers with technical support
• Participate in continuous improvement and agile retrospective activities

You’ll love this role if you…

• Are passionate about education, learning, and personal growth
• Enjoy the challenge of coding a variety of projects
• Code on your own to help with one of your passions or to save time
• Often find yourself in DevTools or Web Inspector to figure out how a page was built
• Want your work to make a big impact both for learners around the country and for CourseStorm
• Care deeply about creating an experience that’s simple for everyone to use
• Hold yourself and your work to a high standard that can be an example for others
• Are excited about being an early part of a rapidly growing team

Requirements

• An unwavering desire to learn new things
• Flexibility to work on a variety of constantly updating challenges
• 4+ years of web development or programming experience, professionally or via personal projects (PHP and JavaScript preferred)
• Full stack experience, including CSS and JavaScript
• Exceptional ability to troubleshoot, debug, and efficiently solve issues
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Fluency in relational database systems (MySQL preferred)
• Experience using Unix-like command lines (Linux or macOS)
• Experience with version control systems (GitHub preferred)
• Excitement to work in a team environment to achieve aggressive goals
• A passion to work at a startup company and make a big impact
  

Additional preferred skills

• Experience with web application frameworks and MVC architecture
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (including CloudWatch, EC2, and S3)
• Experience with the agile software development process

Candidates must live in the US within the eastern time zone, and occasional travel to our office in Orono, Maine, will be required.

CourseStorm is centered around personal growth, so even if you feel like you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we still encourage you to apply. We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can sometimes get in the way of meeting excellent candidates. We don’t want it to get in the way of meeting you.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off -- "Take What You Need", Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Paid professional development
• $1,200 home office budget
• $1k / year personal learning stipend: use it to buy books, classes with a friend, videos, etc -- just learn something new!

About CourseStorm

We believe that everyone is needed to build a better world through education and we are actively working to hire a diverse staff. The unique experiences, perspectives, and talents of our team members aren’t accessories – they are instrumental to our success and the impact we make. We welcome anyone with an open mind and an open heart to join us on this journey.

CourseStorm is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or national origin.