[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Guild

Role Description

Guild is seeking a Senior Software Engineer 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.

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Design and build robust, scalable systems that power data onboarding, eligibility workflows, and benefit policy administration.
• Develop backend services, APIs, ETL pipelines, and internal tools using serverless architecture (AWS Lambda, Glue, S3, API Gateway).
• Create clean, testable, maintainable code in TypeScript/Node.js and Python following best practices and established patterns.
• Ensure system observability, security, and performance using tools like Datadog and CloudWatch.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, internal ops, and customer technical teams to deliver high-impact features.
• Write and maintain comprehensive tests (unit, contract, BDD, and end-to-end) and support CI/CD pipelines for consistent delivery.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and on-call rotations, with a focus on production readiness, system health, and issue resolution.
• Contribute to system architecture decisions, technical documentation, and mentoring of junior developers.

Qualifications

• 5+ Years Hands-on Experience with:
• TypeScript/Node.js, Python, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, GraphQL, REST APIs.
• Experience with AWS tools:
• Lambda, Glue, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, SQS, Secrets Manager, CDK, Serverless Framework.
• Knowledge of:
• ETL pipeline development, CSV/API data ingestion, data transformation, event-driven architecture.
• Testing & Tooling:
• Jest, Pact, Cypress, Gherkin, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (AWS CDK/CloudFormation).
• AI Experience:
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI) and building AI-powered features such as virtual assistants, summarization tools, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows.
• Proficient in using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) with a solid understanding of their application in production-grade environments.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.
• Ability to balance technical decisions with business goals and deliver pragmatic solutions.
• A passion for Guild’s mission to unlock opportunity through education and upskilling.

Requirements

• We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency.
• This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $150,000 - $180,000, and stock options.
• Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO).
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future.
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge.
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover.
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services.
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth.