Senior Fullstack Engineer (Golang / React)

About the Product

Niche is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students, by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply. Niche is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day. We want Niche to be a place where people truly enjoy working and can thrive professionally.

About the Role

Weʼre looking for a driven, resourceful, and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Data-Driven Content team, focused on enriching and scaling thesystems that power discovery and instill trust for our millions of users. Collaborating closely with Data Engineering, Product, and Design, you will be taskedwith building services and user-facing features across our platform, with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, scalability, testability, and userexperience. Youʼll leverage your expertise spanning the entire stack, from database interactions to front-end libraries, contributing significantly to ourtechnical direction while mentoring other engineers. This is an ideal role for engineers who enjoy prototyping and experimenting to learn quickly.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable full-stack applications and features across a modern tech stack, including Typescript, React, Go, and Postgres.
• Focus on improving our user experience, collaborating with designers to implement intuitive interfaces and finding creative ways to reduce user pain points.
• Build and enhance microservices, focusing on reliability, maintainability, testability, and scalability within our distributed systems.
• Ensure the quality of our products remains high by contributing to automated testing strategies and participating actively in code reviews.
• Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and other engineers within an Agile development framework.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, identifying and driving improvements in our processes, architecture, and technology stack.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a collaborative environment and sharing your expertise.
• Distill user stories or business requirements into technical requirements and robust technical designs.
• Efficiently iterate from hypothesis to MVP to scaled solutions, driving software development across profiles, rankings, tools, and data pipelines.
• Help shape the Data-Driven Content teamʼs engineering practices as we embrace experimentation, improve delivery speed, and optimize data operations.

What We Are Looking For

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