[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Integrations @Element451

Role Description

Element451 is building the AI-powered platform reshaping how colleges and universities recruit, enroll, and support students — and integrations are the connective tissue that makes it work. You’ll own the data pipelines, third-party API integrations, and distributed workflows that move student data reliably at scale, with AI built into how you work.

Remote in Serbia, you’ll build integration software with full end-to-end ownership — from shaping a pipeline in planning to keeping it stable in production. This is an explicitly AI-forward role: AI tooling is a professional discipline applied across every phase of the work, not a shortcut for generating code.

What You’ll Own:

• Own the integrations you ship until they’re live and moving real student data correctly.
• Build and own data pipelines and integration services designed for idempotency, safe retries, and observability from the start.
• Treat data integrity as sacred — catch discrepancies before a client does.
• Drive root causes to resolution across incidents, sync failures, and data discrepancies.
• Surface production risks early — schema drift, upstream API changes, rate limits, credential expiry, partial-failure edge cases.
• Generalize fixes that help more than one integration into shared libraries.
• Treat code assistants, test generation, and debugging as core craft, holding AI-assisted work to the same bar as anything you write by hand.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, including senior-level work on data integrations or backend services in a complex, multi-tenant SaaS product.
• Strong, current Python for production data pipelines and integration services.
• Solid MongoDB — data modeling and query performance across flexible, document-oriented schemas at multi-tenant scale (~140 client integrations).
• Distributed systems — async, queue-driven architectures and the realities of partial failure, retries, idempotency, eventual consistency, and backpressure.
• Third-party API integrations (Student Information Systems, Stripe, PayPal, Google, Outlook) — auth, pagination, rate limits, and graceful handling of unreliable upstreams.
• AWS-hosted environments (secrets management, SQS, workflow orchestration).
• Automated testing across layers, plus sound AI judgment — production experience with OpenAI APIs or comparable LLM platforms is a plus.
• Deep, current fluency with agentic AI development tooling (Claude Code, Codex, or comparable).
• Excellent written communication that stands on its own.

Requirements

• Understand the “why” before the “what.”
• Own the outcome — it’s done when it’s live, validated against real data, and stable in production.
• Take initiative — move work forward and surface risks while they’re still cheap to fix.
• Solve problems together — share openly and treat feedback as a professional input.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Remote work flexibility.
• Opportunities for professional development.

Company Description

Element451 is focused on reshaping how colleges and universities recruit, enroll, and support students through an AI-powered platform.