Design, build, and maintain full stack features and systems that power Panorama’s Surveys product.
Lead complex technical initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, and performance of survey workflows and reporting, including selectively incorporating AI-assisted approaches where they add clear value.
Partner with Product and Design to translate customer needs into well-scoped, durable technical solutions.
Balance new feature development with ongoing investment in platform health, technical debt reduction, and operational excellence.
Ensure survey experiences are intuitive, accessible, and performant for educators and administrators.
Serve as a senior technical voice within the Surveys squad, helping guide architectural decisions and technical direction.
Mentor and support engineers across the team through pairing, code reviews, and technical guidance.
Raise the bar for engineering quality, testing practices, and maintainability.
Collaborate with other Staff and Principal engineers to align patterns and practices across Panorama’s technology organization.
Contribute to shared technical standards and help evolve Panorama’s engineering practices over time.
Work across the stack, with deep backend expertise in Ruby on Rails and comfort building and evolving front-end experiences in Vue.js.
Support data-intensive features, including survey administration, response collection, reporting, and insights.
Design, prototype, write, test, review, debug, deploy, and monitor production code.

Requirements

7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including work at the Senior or Staff level.
Strong full stack experience, with deep proficiency in Ruby on Rails and working knowledge of modern front-end frameworks (Vue.js preferred).
Experience working on large, long-lived products and evolving systems over time.
A product-oriented mindset and the ability to reason about tradeoffs between speed, quality, and sustainability.
A proven track record of mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership without formal authority.
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design.
Comfort working with ambiguity and ownership over complex problem spaces.
Interest in applying AI thoughtfully to improve workflows, data quality, and product experiences, with a strong sense of when automation is and is not optimal.
Experience collaborating with data science or AI-focused teams, or hands-on experience integrating AI-powered capabilities into production systems.

Benefits

The “Base Salary” range represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position across all US locations. Determining this anticipated Base Salary range involves considering many factors in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: unique skill sets, experience, training, performance, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Additionally, our anticipated Base Salary determination is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy, including annual bonus or commission awards, equity awards, and other region-specific health and welfare benefits.
Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators, and families from diverse backgrounds and identities across the country; we’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. In addition, we have found (and we believe the research) that diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other. As such, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Panorama also has a policy on maintaining a drug-free workplace.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Ruby on RailsVue.jsfull stack developmentAI integrationdata analysissoftware testingcode reviewdebuggingproduction deploymenttechnical leadership

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingproduct-oriented mindsetadaptabilityownershiptechnical guidancetradeoff reasoningoperational excellence