Senior Software Engineer, Platform

We founded Timely to build the tool we wish we'd had when we were in schools -- hoping to save hundreds of hours of wasted time while helping schools develop better schedules that enable their academic, budget and staffing priorities. Our solution addresses the needs of school-based employees who toil away building schedules and central office employees who need visibility into them.

The school schedule reflects values and priorities. With 75 to 90% of a district budget dedicated to personnel, there are few questions more paramount than how your staff and students spend their time every day, what positions you need, how many teachers you will hire, and how students will interact with them. Strategic resource allocation across schools, proper access to core courses and electives, and dedicated support to sub-groups begins with the development of a school schedule.

Timely is your home for secondary scheduling featuring AI optimization and support from a team of former educators who know and have lived scheduling. Not only does Timely save time and headache, it unlocks resources so district and charter leaders can build a schedule that aligns with their vision.

This role is a Senior Software Engineer position with a strong focus on platform and infrastructure development. You and your team will own outcomes around stability, quality, maintainability, and speed of development for the Timely technical platform, encompassing infrastructure, tooling, development patterns, and critical shared libraries or components. In addition to identifying and delivering on projects that have the highest benefit for engineering team productivity and quality, you will help to up-level and onboard the entire team to best practices and establish a strong technology culture at Timely. 

• Identify, prioritize, design and deliver technical platform solutions spanning areas like cloud infrastructure, test infrastructure & patterns, shared product libraries, security practices, authentication platform and CI/CD tooling. 

• Engage with engineering stakeholders to understand pain points and opportunities to enable Timely to deliver value quickly while maintaining quality. 

• Drive the investigation and decisioning on key technology decisions impacting how Timely builds and maintains software. 

• Own production availability by implementing observability and recovery practices for Timely applications while providing periodic on-call support. 

• Uplevel the Timely engineering team on platform technologies and engineering patterns by maintaining documentation, presenting in different venues, providing cross-team design/code reviews, and mentoring team members. 

• Own the delivery of critical projects by defining scope, creating tickets, and managing delivery timelines. 

• Mentor and support junior engineers, promoting a culture of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement.

• 3-5+ years of experience in infrastructure and platform engineering and comfort with the following (or equivalent) technologies: AWS, Terraform, MongoDB, Python, CI/CD via Github Actions. 

• Ability to design and develop solutions full-stack to deliver value for the engineering team and wider business, including in the Frontend when necessary. 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional environments.

• Commitment to continuous improvement: seeking out and welcoming code reviews, pairing, and collaborative problem-solving.

• Experience working in agile environments and familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Pytest).

• Experience and comfort operating in a fast startup environment and all that entails: strong ownership, self direction, prompt delivery of value to the customer & learnings for the business. 

• Prior experience in EdTech is a plus but not required. 

• Fully remote role with a preference for candidates based in NY or Boston.

• Work with an exceptional team tackling meaningful challenges in education.

• Be part of a growing, financially healthy company with a proven product.

• Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision and life insurance, unlimited PTO, and professional development opportunities including free access to online learning programs