Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering and Internal Products

Clever is on a mission to connect every student, worldwide, to a world of learning. With our identity platform for education, we serve 77% of U.S. schools and over 1 million K12 students internationally. As a trusted partner for schools and educators, we provide secure, seamless access to digital learning tools that empower students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! Company, is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, but our impact extends far beyond. Learn more about us at www.clever.com.

The Data Engineering and Internal Products (DEIP) team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer. You’ll be a technical leader responsible for designing, building and improving platforms and services that empower our customers and other teams at Clever. 

You’ll be a part of a team that: 

Empowers a Data-Driven Organization 

Teams across Clever, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Executives, and Customer Success, use data to make good decisions. Our team provides the platforms that make this possible. We are continually working to better enable insights and activate data. 

Helps our Customers to be Data-Driven too 

Our customers are hungry for data. We focus on empowering our customers with great external analytics products that will help them be data-driven. 

Building Great Internal Products that Clever employees use Every Day 

Teams across Clever need tools to help them with their day-to-day work. We own internal products that allow teams to manage otherwise difficult tasks. These internal products keep Clever running smoothly.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

You will be responsible for designing and building services and products that support scaling company processes, improving decision making, and empowering customers with actionable analytics. You’ll work on projects like: 

• Designing, building and scaling our analytics pipeline to deliver fast, reliable insights that drive business and product decisions
• Developing Clever’s internal products and systems to improve employee productivity and deliver greater impact to customers
• Managing Clever’s data warehouse and optimizing for scale as we grow our user base and product surface area
• Expanding and scaling our external analytics products to fulfill the analytics demands of external customers

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• 4+ years of experience as a software or data engineer
  • Experience with backend development is required
  • Experience building data pipelines, ingesting and transforming data with SQL is required
  • Experience with GoLang is useful but not required
• Experience with modern data tools especially dbt, Snowflake, and Spark 
• Experience with data modeling for analytics use cases is helpful but not required
• Experience with AWS services is a plus (e.g. AWS Lambda, Athena, S3, RDS, Dynamo, Kinesis, Glue)
• Experience with design and architecture of end-to-end systems to solve a variety of product and data needs
• Experience with REST APIs and microservices
• Led medium to large projects and collaborated with engineers and cross-team stakeholders to create meaningful impact
• The drive to learn and teach through collaboration and code reviews
• A desire to work in a diverse, highly collaborative team environment
• Commitment to equity and belonging: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone to bring their authentic selves into the workplace. Outside of our walls, we use our collective influence, passionate work, and community involvement to unlock learning for ALL students.

CLEVER BENEFITS AND PERKS:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Top-notch healthcare, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
• Best-in-class mental healthcare service that supports employees' mental and emotional wellness
• A generous personal development yearly budget which can be used for courses, conferences, trainings, books, and more
• A comprehensive Learning & Development program that enables employees to enhance their skills, knowledge, and functional expertise
• Annual company and team events to connect with fun, bright coworkers

SALARY TRANSPARENCY:

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $160,000 - $190,000.. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA is between $176,000 - $209,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise.

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