Senior Software Engineer

ITHAKA

Full-stack Senior Software Engineer at ITHAKA helping to expand access to education through technology. Collaborating with teams to develop high-impact software in a remote work setting.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $112,240 - $140,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerGrafanaGraphQLJavaJavaScriptJestJUnitKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLTypeScriptVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Participate as an empowered member of a collaborative Agile team to design, develop, and maintain high-performance customer-facing reporting applications.
Leverage continuous deployment and test automation tools to deploy application changes to production multiple times per day.
Interact with internal and external customers to understand their needs and drive the development of web applications to meet those needs.
Implement rich, interactive web applications using the latest technologies, frameworks, and patterns.
Leverage web analytics to support Product Discovery and to measure project KPIs.
Test, measure, and optimize performance using Application Performance Management tools.
Participate in the weekly on-call rotation between the team to respond to automated alerts and lead agile ceremonies.
Demonstrate leadership skills in mentoring team members and articulating and evangelizing new technologies, methodologies, and processes.
Participate in analysis of pricing, risk/reward, cost advantages, and resourcing to support technological improvements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer building large-scale, distributed web applications.
Experience with cloud infrastructure services, and AWS in particular.
Experience with serverless and event-driven architecture is a plus.
Experience creating and operating backend services using languages like Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript with frameworks like Fast API, NodeJS or Spring Boot.
Experience creating and operating user-facing applications using frameworks like React or Vue.
Experience creating and managing APIs for use by multiple teams using REST or GraphQL.
Experience with distributed data sets in Databricks environments. Ability to create and optimize complex SQL queries.
Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, code and documentation completion, and automated testing tools) to improve productivity, while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and maintainability.
Experience using a decentralized version control system like Git in a collaborative context on a platform like GitHub or GitLab.
Experience creating and operating containerize applications, particularly in a Kubernetes environment using Docker.
Experience with observability tools such as Grafana APM.
Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g. JUnit, Jest, pytest, Playwright) and TDD practices.
Experience mentoring other engineers in a technical and interpersonal capacity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical, dental, and vision plans
employer-paid 10% retirement contribution
paid parental and caregiver leave
22 days of paid time off
11 paid holidays
up to 12 sick days
wellness benefits and more

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Hard Skills & Tools

full-stack software engineeringcloud infrastructure servicesAWSserverless architectureevent-driven architecturePythonJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptSQL

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer interactionagile methodologiesteam participationanalysisevangelizing new technologies