Staff Software Engineer

5 days ago

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

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💵 $140k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Veracross

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Veracross is a comprehensive school management platform designed for private and independent K-12 schools. It offers a range of modules including academics, admissions, enrollment, student health, behavior, tuition management, and more, all integrated into a single, web-based solution. Veracross helps schools transform data discrepancies into actionable insights and streamline operations through connected workflows. It serves various types of schools such as private K-12, boarding, international, and parochial schools. By providing tools that simplify academic and administrative processes, Veracross aims to create more connected, unified school communities.

EdTech • School Information Systems (SIS) • Student Health Records (SHR)

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2000

📚 Education

📋 Description

• Company Description: • Veracross provides SaaS-based School Information Systems (SIS) designed to meet the specific needs of independent K-12 schools worldwide. • Our one-record solution combines the power of a fully integrated single-record database, personalized communication tools, and an elegant architecture that is unique in our industry. • We are a growing, values-led community of 350 employees in the US, UK and Australia who share a vision to unify school communities, improve the quality of education, and enhance learning. • As of early 2024, we are supporting 3200+ schools in 60 countries. • About the Role • This is a full-time, staff level software engineering role where you will work as a technical lead and individual contributor on our Payments team. • Payments is one of three product areas (along with Accounting and Student Billing) that are a part of our Financial Technology offering for our schools. • The Payments product is focused on building and improving our online payments platform, VC Pay, as well as supporting our payment integrations with other products within Veracross. • Our engineering team is remote-friendly, distributed, and has employees in a variety of states and contractors in several countries. • While our headquarters is in Wakefield, MA and proximity to this location is a plus, candidates are encouraged to apply from anywhere. • Responsibilities • Develop, improve, and maintain features using Ruby on Rails, SQL, and JavaScript. • Own technical architecture discussions and lead technical decisions for our payments product area. • Provide technical mentorship for team members. • Partner and collaborate with other technical leaders across teams. • Build new features within our flagship product, Axiom. • Enable other internal product areas, such as Admissions and Fundraising, to leverage our payments platform. • Expand our internal tools to automate and improve workflows. • Write and improve documentation for our FinTech systems and tools. • Integrate Veracross with third-party systems used by private K-12 schools.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience integrating payment providers such as Stripe, BlueSnap, Braintree, etc. • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. • Excellent technical organization and planning skills. • Demonstrable understanding of the security and privacy requirements of payment related systems. • The ability to perform technical responsibilities remotely in a mostly asynchronous environment. • The ability to be flexible and adaptable. • 8+ years of professional programming experience. • Proven experience in system architecture, ensuring system scalability and performance. • Experience with the Ruby language, Rails framework, or similar languages and technologies; experience with modern JavaScript development a plus. • Passionate about writing testable code, with experience in unit/integration testing. • Experience with relational databases. • Experience with source control, especially git. • A service- and team-oriented mindset. • Understanding of core accounting standards and concepts, including but not limited to: GAAP, General Ledger, and Accounts Receivable / Accounts Payable. • Experience with accounting applications, such as Quickbooks, Freshbooks, Xero, or Sage. • Experience with financial aid, tuition management, or other school-related financial software.

🏖️ Benefits

• 3 weeks of vacation per year • 14 paid holidays per year (including the week off between Christmas and New Year's Eve) • 56 Hours of paid sick leave annually • Top tier benefits - • Medical, Dental & Vision (Blue Cross Blue Shield & EyeMed) • Veracross LLC Fidelity 401(k) Plan - Managed by Sentinel Benefits