Bedrock Learning, Inc. (https://thebedrock.co) is revolutionizing professional lifelong education for enterprises with global interests. Its main product is an enterprise SaaS social learning network that offers coursework, serious games, simulations, and intelligence streams that are all inherently collaborative. We aim for Bedrock to contribute to a more secure and prosperous world by improving how a wide variety of professionals learn, think, decide, and act. And we aim to empower those professionals by ensuring that what they do in our social network counts toward career advancement.

This is your chance to join an early-stage startup and have your say in how our platform’s systems and their APIs are designed.

We’re looking for a well-rounded software engineer with experience building foundational systems and APIs. This is a full-time, hybrid position based in the Washington, DC-metro area. The candidate will design systems that are consumed by other developers, both as libraries and web APIs. They will also be modifying game and web client code (all written in modern Typescript) as they iterate and mature these APIs. This is primarily a back-end role, but experience building games, web apps, or mobile apps is a plus.

This is a senior level role, for an engineer who excels at writing code for an audience of other developers. The candidate must have rock-solid fundamentals, preferably through a CS education, and enough experience shipping software and developer tools to know how to find the right level of abstraction for a given problem. We value simplicity and lean on great tools to help us produce great code.

Bedrock Learning, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Requirements

We are looking for someone who

is an engineer with a minimum of 8 years of experience building software in a professional setting
loves Typescript or other strongly-typed languages, and knows how and when to use the advanced features of the type system
understands databases, caches, load balancers, and the fundamentals of building scalable web systems
has opinions on REST, Websocket, and (g)RPC frameworks, and experience delivering strongly-typed, versioned, documented APIs
has worked on systems that support online gaming such as chat, matchmaking, and lobby services
has a basic understanding of different multiplayer game networking methodologies, including server-authoritative and peer-to-peer architectures
is able to work collaboratively as a part of a small team while still being able to handle responsibilities with a great deal of autonomy
believes in the power of the Age of Lifelong Learning
is interested in growing into an architect role within the company
has the right to work in the United States
lives in the Washington, DC metro area or is willing to relocate to the Washington, DC metro area

Duties And Responsibilities

Write clean, maintainable Typescript code in a dynamic small team setting with minimal oversight
Deliver end-to-end platform features and new APIs in a professional setting, utilizing existing testing and CI / CD infrastructure
Identify areas where additional testing and CI / CD infrastructure is needed and work with the team to create those new processes as necessary
Take action on peer feedback and provide feedback on the work of your peer developers, encouraging best practices and clean code while remaining professional and courteous to others
Participate in weekly sprint meetings, including demonstrating work-in-progress to the Product team and participating in backlog grooming and prioritization
Provide documentation for select APIs and occasionally act as technical point-of-contact with our partners that use them

Benefits

Competitive salary
Stock Options
Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
Annual and performance-based bonuses
Healthcare, Dental, and Vision with 100% of premiums covered for employees
Paid parental leave

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