[Hiring] Software Engineer II @Level Data LLC

Role Description

At Level Data, we build the data infrastructure that K-12 education runs on. Our platforms connect disparate systems inside schools and state agencies into a single reliable picture that leaders can act on. This role is on the Talent team, which delivers:

• Teacher licensure and credentialing
• District and school accreditation
• Statewide teacher evaluation aligned to state frameworks
• Talent transparency through our statewide educator job board

The Software Engineer 2 will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a main driver of story output for the team, spending nearly all of your time hands-on delivering features that state agencies depend on.
• Build and ship across a C#/.NET and SQL Server core, extending into React and Node (TypeScript) with Postgres on our newer products.
• Work effectively across your team's entire codebase rather than a single corner of it, including established ASP.NET applications and newer services.
• Take initiative to resolve technical and product problems as they arise, without waiting to be prompted or assigned.
• Help maintain the team's broader environment and shared responsibilities - CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, UAT and production environments, and production support rotation.
• Develop a strong understanding of the team's goals and how your work advances them, including compliance deadlines and state reporting cycles that shape our roadmap.
• Write code that reviews cleanly and review your teammates' code with the same care, contributing to the quality bar the team holds.
• Collaborate directly with your Product Owner by asking questions about the customer problem behind the ticket and bringing what you learn back into the work.
• Contribute to estimation and planning, voicing feedback and technical perspective so the team commits to work it can deliver on time and in scope.
• Participate fully as a member of a self-managing Scrum team, sharing ownership of the team's commitments alongside your teammates.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with C# and .NET, or equivalent backend development experience such as Java.
• Strong computer science fundamentals - algorithms, data structures, and coding fluency.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented analysis, design, and development.
• Working relational database skills: writing complex queries and understanding schema design in SQL Server, Postgres, or comparable systems.
• Working proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and a modern front-end framework.
• Experience delivering at pace in an Agile team environment, including source control, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Generalist instincts and a willingness to work with whatever tool or language the job calls for.
• A desire to collaborate, with genuine belief in communal ownership of the work and mutual support in doing it.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort asking questions early rather than staying blocked.
• Familiarity with a major public cloud provider; we build in Azure, and AWS or Google Cloud experience translates well.

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfort tackling problems outside your existing experience and seeing them through.
• An instinct for noticing what's broken - in the code, the process, or the way the team works - and trying to fix it.
• Interest in mentoring teammates and growing into a technical leadership role over time.
• Familiarity with Entity Framework or comparable .NET patterns.
• Experience applying AI/GenAI tooling to increase development and support efficiency.