Backend Platform Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not provided

This role is for a Software Engineer to join the Core Backend Team. The team builds and maintains the underlying systems and tools used by developers and customer support. The role focuses on creating and maintaining tools and services that make daily tasks easier, boost workflow, and improve processes. It's a role for a developer's developer, focused on building and maintaining tools for other developers. Top Hat is transforming higher education, and this role will contribute to the technology shaping classrooms worldwide.

Requirements

• Four (4) or more years of industry experience, or two (2) or more years of industry experience with a relevant research-based master's or PhD degree.
• At least two (2) of those years must have been spent working with large code bases (roughly one million lines or more) featuring complex algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with Python (FastAPI and Django), TypeScript (React), and PostgreSQL is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use Python, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL during the hiring process.

Responsibilities

• Keep the most important systems in the company working well and make them even better.
• Solve problems related to improving and contributing to the largest systems with the most significant impact behind the scenes.
• Learn from and share with others, gaining a deep understanding of different systems, tools, and architectures.
• Work with smart people, applying knowledge to real-world systems at scale.
• Shape your own projects and work in a way that suits you best, taking the lead and making decisions that matter.

Application Instructions

• Not provided

Company Information

• Company: Top Hat
• Industry: Transforming higher education
• Mission: Empowering developers to build products that spark better teaching and learning for a brighter world.
• Current Reach: Over 750 universities and 3 million students.
• Future Goals: Reaching all 4,000+ post-secondary institutions across North America.