Software Engineer I

About this role

About Renaissance
When you join Renaissance, you join a global leader in pre-K-12 education technology! Renaissance's solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters-creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.


Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.


Job Description
We're looking for a motivated
Software Engineer I
to join our agile, multi-disciplinary engineering team. You'll play a key role in an impact-driven culture where your creativity, curiosity, and technical skill help shape how we build and scale our highly available SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.


In this role as a Software Engineer I, you will:

• Collaborate closely within an agile, cross-functional team to deliver high-quality software and develop your skills.
• Communicate effectively in a distributed remote work environment.
• Contribute to the design, development and maintenance of frontend and backend systems serving millions of users and thousands of requests per second.
• Contribute your unique perspective and technical expertise to achieve shared goals.
• Continuously learn, experiment, test, and iterate to improve both product and process.

For this role as a Software Engineer I, you should have:

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering , or equivalent experience.
• 1-2+ years of professional software development experience utilizing web technologies.
• Hands-on experience with React or a comparable single-page application framework.
• Familiarity with js for backend or API development.
• ...