Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

DEPARTMENT: Information Technology

REPORTS TO: Manager of Engineering

FSLA STATUS: Exempt

JOB TYPE: Full Time

LOCATION: Remote (USA Only) Meteor Education does not provide work visas and currently only hires candidates who are authorized to work in the United States.

COMPENSATION: $135k-$145k

CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY

At Meteor, integrity and transparency are paramount in all our operations and interactions.  To avoid any potential conflicts of interest and maintain the trust of our public customers, we regret that we cannot consider applications from individuals who are currently employed by organizations that are customers of Meteor, where they hold positions that could influence the purchasing decisions regarding our products or services.  This policy ensures fairness and impartiality in our hiring process and customer interactions.

If you fall under this category, we appreciate your understanding and encourage your continued support as a valued customer.

SUMMARY OF POSITION

Meteor Education is seeking a collaborative, senior-level, hands-on Software Engineer with expertise in enterprise Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft, and Python-based services to help drive the evolution of our systems. This role plays an integral part in delivering flexible, scalable, and high-quality software solutions that support both internal operations and external business objectives.

The ideal candidate will possess advanced technical proficiency across these platforms, with the ability to design and deliver complex, cross-platform solutions. You’ll work closely with the Engineering Manager, senior architecture partners, other engineers, product owners, analysts, and cross-functional teams to turn ideas into solutions—completing technical design and delivery across the full development lifecycle from requirements to release.

At Meteor, we value more than just technical skills. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help ensure that our software not only meets current needs but is architected for long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability. This is an exciting opportunity to serve as a technical expert and contribute to systems that directly support our mission to transform educational environments and improve outcomes for learners across the country.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Communicating goals and planning solutions

• Understand and articulate the problems and goals the organization faces.
• Technical discovery and solution design for complex assignments.
• Anticipate problems and tradeoffs with proposed solutions.
• Estimate time involved in completing tasks and informing estimation practices within the team.
• Iterate on solutions and follow up throughout the implementation process.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver product features.
• Serve as a technical point-of-contact for Technology team leadership.

Implement and support features

• Develop software solutions that meet goals and are flexible and scalable.
• Contribute end-to-end technical delivery for complex features, integrations, and services.
• Discover reproducible steps for issues and provide timely solutions.
• Continuously refactor and improve existing technology, including proactive identification and remediation of technical debt.
• Apply appropriate testing practices (including test-driven development and acceptance testing) to ensure feature quality.
• Coordinate with the Technology team members and leadership, enabling them to keep stakeholders informed of sprint development status.
• Participate in the development of coding standards and design patterns within the team.

Release Management & DevOps

• Participate in and contribute to CI/CD pipeline design, testing, and deployment automation within core enterprise platforms (Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft, and other supporting services).
• Ensure deployment processes are repeatable and well-documented.
• Troubleshoot issues across development, test, and production environments, including root-cause analysis for complex production incidents.

Technical Documentation & Standards

• Maintain and update system-level technical documentation and coding standards.
• Participate in code reviews, while ensuring work is completed, and feedback is addressed consistently.
• Help define engineering best practices and technical standards within the team.
• Write clean, efficient, performant, and well-documented code, and maintain clear system-level technical documentation.

Security & Compliance

• Utilize security best practices across integrations and applications.
• Maintain awareness of Salesforce, NetSuite and MuleSoft platform updates and assess impact on existing systems.
• Conform to solutions that meet compliance and data-protection requirements.
• Apply security best practices across integrations and applications, balancing risk, usability, and business needs.

Technical Leadership

• Aid in the mentorship of other developers or new team members.
• Continue to learn and share knowledge with the organization.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and platform changes, particularly within enterprise ecosystems.
• Provide expertise on technical matters.
• Understand the systems and processes of the organization.
• Be a contributing, proactive part of platform management: e.g. monitoring releases, managing technical debt.
• User-centric development: ensuring solutions are not just technically correct but effective for the end user.
• Influence technical direction through collaboration and technical expertise, without direct people management responsibility.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering and application development, with significant experience in enterprise environments.
• 5+ years working within enterprise SaaS ecosystems, including Salesforce and NetSuite.
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing complex integrations using MuleSoft or equivalent middleware platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce Lightning, Visualforce pages, NetSuite SuiteScript automation tools, and dashboards.
• Proficiency in Apex, LWC, JavaScript, SOQL, and Java, with advanced proficiency in Python, with experience building production-grade integrations and services.
• Strong knowledge of SOA and experience in designing integration interfaces and APIs.
• Experience with SQL databases, preferably Microsoft SQL and MySQL, along with their integration into one system via Snowflake or the like.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative, team player who is driven by results.
• Strong experience with time management within an agile environment.
• Excellent customer service skills and experience working with end users and business analysts.
• Enterprise development certifications (e.g., Salesforce Platform Developer, App Builder, MuleSoft Developer) are a plus but not required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Basic Life AD&D (100% employer paid)
• Short Term Disability (100% employer paid)
• Long Term Disability (Not employer paid)
• 401(k) + matching
• Supplemental Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave (8 weeks)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• 9 Company Paid Holidays
• Primary Caregiver Leave (40 hours)
• Employee advocates serving to sustain employee wellness in the workplace