Software Engineer

About Us

Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.

By combining our unparalleled domain expertise with leading-edge technology, Ad Astra is helping higher education in its mission to advance timely student completions.

We are building a cloud-based software platform that will provide the foundation for our next generation of industry-leading solutions and analytics.

Simply put, we're helping students graduate faster.

Our Core Values

• We recognize talent. We recognize and appreciate the unique God-given talents that our people bring to Ad Astra. Aligning these individual gifts with our work sets team members up to succeed.
• We’re unpretentious. There’s no room for ego. We admit our imperfections and have the humility to know what we don’t know.
• We’re passionate. We aren’t satisfied with the status quo. We’re on a mission together to protect the value of degree completion and to transform the higher education industry.
• We’re pioneering. We’re pioneering and aren’t afraid to fail in fact, we celebrate it. We love it when our people boldly experiment with innovative solutions.
• We love fun. The health of our relationships is strengthened by working with people who stretch our thinking and by enjoying the lighter side of life together.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we do take fun seriously.

We have grit. Beyond talent and intelligence, our people have stick-to-itiveness. We push through challenges to make goals a reality.

About You

We are looking for a dedicated and mission-oriented software engineer who will embrace the challenge of being on the front edge of our new platform with a willingness to maintain and improve our existing platform.

The successful candidate will understand the necessity to release minimally viable code as quickly as possible and iteratively improve it.

A solid academic foundation (BS in Computer Science) or related experience are expected for this role. Being smart and curious is much more important to us than checking the technology checkboxes.

We are looking for candidates early in their careers (ideally with 4-6 years of experience) who are hungry to build the expertise of their craft and grow in leadership.

In this role, you will :

• Write and release code lots of it with a quality-centered sense of urgency
• Work across the entire technology stack
• Continuously collaborate and drive to consensus on design decisions
• Participate actively and constructively in agile team meetings and peer code reviews
• Quickly learn new technologies and processes
• Have a lot of fun, it’s unavoidable
• Play a meaningful role in helping institutions provide a clearer path to graduation
• Exhibit our core values : passionate, pioneering, unpretentious, fun, honoring God-given talents

Technologies (and design principles) we use (so far) :

• AWS : Lambda, Step, CloudWatch, RDS, CloudFormation, Glue, SQS
• Elasticity, Pipelines, Microservices, Serverless, RESTful, Continuous Integration
• Java, Node.js, .NET
• BitBucket (Git), JIRA, Slack
• MongoDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
• Front-end JavaScript (React, Angular)

Benefit Highlights

• Competitive Compensation and Benefits Package
• 401(k) with profit sharing
• Flexible Time Off
• Office dog!

Ad Astra Information Systems, LLC. is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

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