Software Engineer

About Us

AstrumU is a data services company based in Bellevue, WA that is leveling the playing field by identifying skills gap recommendations, so that individuals can achieve their career objectives. ​AstrumU quantifies skills and affinities developed through education, training, and professional experiences of all types. The AstrumU AI Translation Engine ingests verified data from learning, skills, and labor market outcomes to measure, map and make recommendations based on the probable impact to outcomes.  We are on a mission to quantify the return on educational investments for all learners, education providers and employers, so everyone can maximize their potential in the Future of Work.

Using predictive models constantly updated to meet the evolving needs of a changing economy, our platform allows institutions to accurately forecast the labor market value of educational experiences to equip students, faculty, and advisors with information on how learning translates to marketable skills in the workforce. Going beyond publicly-available data and job boards, we are the only technology solution that uses industry-verified data—from proprietary employer sources—to match educational inputs to workforce outcomes.

Our investors currently include Kingdom Capital, Ignition Partners, Correlation Ventures, City Light Capital, the University of Kansas, Arizona State University and private investors.

Your Role

We are a mission driven team with a big ambition! We are fast-paced, results focused, value over communication, and committed to providing a mutually respectful work environment. Your passion for quality code, opportunities for continuous learning, drive for ownership and to make an impact  will make you feel at home.

We are looking for experienced full stack/backend engineers to help us design and build our platform, microservices, applications, and APIs. You’ll be working collaboratively across Engineering, Data Science, Product, DevOps, and Sales/Solution Engineers. This is an influential role at AstrumU, and you will have the opportunity for significant impact and ownership on our platform, marketplace applications, and growing our teams.

In this role, you’ll be involved in all aspects of our SDLC, evolving our services and applications using Typescript (at times Python), Azure Serverless Apps/Azure Kubernetes Service deployed with Pulumi, CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, and GraphQL/Azure API Management for APIs. You’ll become intimately familiar with AstrumU’s products and SaaS business, implement/adhere to our audit/control requirements, and contribute to our business and technology strategies. 

Your Responsibilities

• Implement new business functionality in the AstrumU application platform to meet business and customer requirements, working closely with product management and customers.
• Participate in an Agile/Lean framework to ensure team ownership and effective execution in delivering working software solutions that are driven by market need.
• View communication as a critical part of your job, and over communicate technology decisions, issues and plans to team members, management and customers. Leverage data to augment your analysis and recommendations.
• Support ongoing development maintenance of existing application functionality, refactoring of the existing code base, and working closely with the product management to address issues that are escalated for resolution.
• Work collaboratively with our distributed engineering teams to mature our development processes and develop/champion guidelines, technology and architecture strategy, and third-party vendor relationships.
• Actively support, coach, and grow fellow software engineers and foster an inclusive environment that engages your peers in sharing expertise and learning from the larger software group. Participate in interviewing and onboarding new team members.
• Upgrade your skills and our team knowledge by staying current with technology and development tools/techniques, participating in self-directed learning, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Protect operations by keeping information confidential and adhering to AstrumU’s Information Security and Management policies.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

 Your Skills and Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years of programming experience in a professional environment. BS/MS degree in Computer Science is a significant plus,
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript/Typescript or experience in functional programming or with other scripting languages.
• Solid understanding and application of software engineering methodologies and best practices including estimation, design documentation, software quality and testing.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure preferred) and infrastructure components such as Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions.
• Strong database development skills (SQL / NoSQL experience).
• Ability to flex as needed to work well in large or small environments, and with a high degree of initiative, autonomy, self-motivation, and reliability.
• Good knowledge of building backend microservices, developing serverless applications, APIs, and debugging complex distributed systems is a significant plus.

What We Offer

AstrumU pays a gross annualized base salary range for this position of $120,000 to $150,000 based on qualifications, skills, experience, and company values and culture alignment. Hiring at the maximum of the range is not typical to allow for future and continued compensation growth. Additionally, the following key benefits are offered for this full-time role:

• Choice of PPO or HSA plans for medical, dental, and vision insurance; 100% company-paid premiums for employee only; dependents can be added for an employee-paid premium cost
• Company-provided short & long-term disability, and life insurance plans
• Self-managed PTO
• 10 company-paid holidays per year
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401K Plan
• Stock options
• Commuter transportation benefit & free parking

AstrumU is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.