[Remote] Staff Software Engineer - School Safety Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GoGuardian is an innovative company dedicated to enhancing learning environments for K-12 students. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of school safety products, focusing on creating reliable systems that integrate software and hardware to improve student safety and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, technical design, and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production
• Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams and systems
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems that operate reliably in real-world environments
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms, identity providers, communication systems, hardware devices, and external data sources
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to translate customer needs into practical technical solutions
• Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and help shape the technical culture of a growing organization
• Make thoughtful technology decisions that balance customer impact, operational complexity, speed of execution, and long-term maintainability

Skills

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex backend or full-stack systems end-to-end
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications
• Experience building integration-heavy platforms involving third-party APIs, webhooks, data synchronization, and identity systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, data modeling, observability, reliability, performance, and security
• Experience handling sensitive data and building systems where privacy, security, and compliance are architectural requirements
• Demonstrated success delivering 0-to-1 products or major platform initiatives in environments with significant ambiguity
• Proven ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead through collaboration rather than authority
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is valuable: Real-time, high-reliability, or operationally critical systems
• Distributed, event-driven, or edge-to-cloud architectures
• IoT platforms, connected devices, device fleet management, or hardware integrations
• Software platforms that interact with physical devices, kiosks, peripherals, sensors, or other endpoint technologies
• Physical security, operational technology, critical infrastructure, or other environments where reliability and resilience are essential
• Large-scale distributed systems that integrate with numerous third-party platforms and external systems

Benefits

• Complete health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• An employee equity plan
• Flexible time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• A paid year-end holiday break
• A robust catalog of benefits that support your professional growth and personal wellbeing, including work from home funds, fertility & adoption reimbursement, and more…

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