Senior Software Engineer

The Role

The Senior Software Engineer at Edovo has the ability to take a project from inception to completion — scoping, planning, and delivering solutions of the highest quality across our technology stack. You'll sit within one of our engineering streams (“Tech” or “Feature”) and act as a technical owner that Product and Engineering Managers can trust to work through unknowns independently, pulling in the right people when needed rather than working in isolation.

This is a senior individual-contributor role- not a people-management one- but it requires leadership skills: mentoring other engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and representing engineering directly to stakeholders outside the team.

What You'll Do

• Ownership & Delivery

• Take projects from inception to completion, including scoping, planning, and delivery of high-quality solutions

• Have a proven record of delivering across multiple technologies and parts of the stack

• Appropriately estimate work to set expectations with teammates and stakeholders — and deliver on them

• Drive the discussion on process or SDLC adjustments when work comes back due to a bug, missed requirement, or performance issue

• Participate in and contribute to the on-call rotation

• Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Work

• Work directly with stakeholders (Product, Support, Finance, and others) to set expectations, scope work, and establish timelines

• Provide high-level updates to stakeholders outside of engineering

• Interface with internal teams on applicable work, e.g. partnering with Product on a new feature, or Support on updates to user-facing functionality

• Technical & Architectural Leadership

• Have a thorough understanding of the Edovo software stack and contribute to any part of it

• Facilitate design choices that are scalable, extendable, maintainable, and testable

• Balance the needs of the platform with the needs of the business

• Guide strategic investments in improvements and upgrades to our platform, tooling, and infrastructure

• Stay technically relevant and help keep the broader organization technically relevant — we won't often be early adopters, but we stay current with proven industry advances, including AI-assisted development practices

• Mentorship

• Use your expertise to provide guidance and mentorship to fellow engineers through code review, architecture discussions, and pairing

• Help less-experienced engineers develop project plans and estimate work effectively

• What We're Looking For

Required:

• 5+ years of experience in modern full-stack web-application development
• Experience with backend systems serving tens of millions of requests per day (we use Java/Spring Boot)
• Experience building rich client web applications in JavaScript (we use React)
• Experience with sustainable engineering practices: automated testing, continuous deployment, monitoring/alerting
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows. You have enough hands-on experience with AI tools to have well-informed opinions, but also recognize things are changing so quickly that it’s important to remain pragmatic.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and/or comparable cloud-native architecture
• A track record of owning a project end-to-end — from scoping through delivery — with minimal oversight
• Experience mentoring other engineers or leading technical projects
• Clear, structured written and verbal communication skills
• Detail-oriented

Nice to Have:

• Experience in a startup or mission-driven organization

• Familiarity with edtech, healthtech, or similarly regulated/complex product environments

• Exposure to compliance or data privacy requirements (SOC2, CJIS, HIPAA, etc.)

• Experience with MySQL/Aurora or other relational database systems at scale

• Application Requirements

• All applications must include a current resume and a cover letter sharing why you're interested in working with Edovo. Applications lacking a cover letter will not be reviewed.

• Other Details

• Work Authorization: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for employment-based visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

• Location: Remote; however, candidates must currently reside in the United States.

• Salary: Commensurate with experience

• Department: Role reports to a Software Engineering Manager

• Travel

• Up to 15%, including bi-annual company retreats in the Spring and Fall

• Physical Demands: No excessive physical demands required

• Edovo is an impact-driven nonprofit organization. We offer our employees a collaborative culture in a remote working environment, unlimited PTO, and paid benefits for team members and their families. We hire tenacious, innovative, and passionate people and give them opportunities to grow and succeed.

• Teams with bold missions need diverse ideas to generate the most impact. For that reason, Edovo is committed to building diverse and inclusive work spaces. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. And yes, we believe in second chances.