Software Engineer

Instructure is a company that focuses on empowering individuals through intuitive products that enhance learning and personal development. They are seeking a full-stack engineer to develop modern web experiences and services for educators and learners, working with technologies such as Rails, TypeScript, and React. Responsibilities: Contribute to the design and build of production features in Rails, TypeScript, and React; Implement serverless/edge APIs and jobs on AWS (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, S3/CloudFront, EventBridge/Queues); Collaborate on data modeling and ship performant Postgres queries (migrations, indexing, connection mgmt, query optimization); Build for international audiences: i18n/l10n pipelines, time-zone correctness, and data residency considerations; Instrument services with logs/metrics/traces (OpenTelemetry or similar) and contribute to incident ready observability; Follow and promote accessibility (WCAG aware UI), testing (unit/integration/e2e), CI/CD, and participate in code reviews; Collaborate with peers, Product/Design, and contribute to technical discussions Qualifications: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience with TypeScript and Node.js; Experience using AWS for serverless and edge patterns (cold-start mitigation, concurrency, idempotency); Experience with SQL (schema design, query tuning, migrations, understanding of transactions and isolation); Experience with Rails in production: RESTful APIs, ActiveRecord, complex data modeling, and background job processing (Sidekiq or equivalent); Experience with testing and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Docker); Familiarity with operating multi-region/global apps (CDN/edge, geo routing, blue/green & canary, DR); Security mindset (OAuth/SAML, SSO, RBAC, OWASP awareness, PII handling, audit logging), plus familiarity with FERPA/GDPR implications in edtech; Excellent communication, product sense, and a bias for shipping Required Skills: Rails, TypeScript, AWS, SQL, React, CI/CD, Security mindset, Product sense, Bias for shipping