Senior Software Engineer (Remote) at Guild.xyz

<div class="content-intro"><p>To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. You can read about our culture principles <a href="https://guild.com/careers" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p>We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of <a href="https://guild.com/careers/people-manager-expectations">Guild’s people managers</a> — helping you know what to expect from your experience here.</p> <p>If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our <a href="../../internal_job_board">Internal Job Board</a>. </p> <p>----</p></div><p>Guild is seeking a <strong>Senior Software Engineer</strong> to build scalable, reliable systems that empower our Employer Partners to administer education benefits and integrate employee data with Guild’s platform. You’ll play a pivotal role in developing tools and services that streamline eligibility processing, policy management, and data onboarding—ensuring employees get the most out of Guild’s career opportunity programs.</p> <p>This role is ideal for product-minded engineers who are excited by cross-functional collaboration, thrive in a modern AWS serverless environment, and enjoy solving data and systems design challenges at scale.</p> <h3><strong>As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Design and build robust, scalable systems that power data onboarding, eligibility workflows, and benefit policy administration.</li> <li>Develop backend services, APIs, ETL pipelines, and internal tools using serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Glue, S3, API Gateway).</li> <li>Create clean, testable, maintainable code in TypeScript/Node.js and Python following best practices and established patterns.</li> <li>Ensure system observability, security, and performance using tools like Datadog and CloudWatch.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, internal ops, and customer technical teams to deliver high-impact features.</li> <li>Write and maintain comprehensive tests (unit, contract, BDD, and end-to-end) and support CI/CD pipelines for consistent delivery.</li> <li>Participate in Agile ceremonies and on-call rotations, with a focus on production readiness, system health, and issue resolution.</li> <li>Contribute to system architecture decisions, technical documentation, and mentoring of junior developers.<br><br></li> </ul> <h3><strong>You are a strong fit if you have:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>5+