Guild Education
Senior Software Engineer - Front End
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ September 27th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Build and maintain scalable, high-quality software solutions and services.
- Develop production-ready code using AWS, TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL.
- Improve workflows, team velocity, and system stability, including participating in on-call and incident response.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional teams to plan and deliver features on time.
- Strong expertise with front-end technologies including React, HTML, CSS, REST, GraphQL, and cloud platforms like AWS.
- Experience with database technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL) and modern source control (Git/GitHub).
- Requirements include excellent communication skills, cross-team collaboration, and the ability to adapt to change.
- Passion for education and Guild’s mission to empower workforce talent development.
- Competitive total compensation package with a base salary range and stock options, with pay transparency and equity.
- Guild serves major clients like Chipotle, Target, JPMorgan Chase, and PepsiCo, supporting internal talent development.
Senior Software Engineer - Front End Full Description
At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.
If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board.
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To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, weâve identified consistent expectations for all of Guildâs people managers â helping you know what to expect from your experience here.
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Guild is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Academy product team. This product enables social, cohorted learning within large enterprises, for better learning and engagement outcomes. The Academy product has launched via an acquisition, with a well-tested core experience that users and clients love from a decade plus of development. The small, distributed team from across the US and Europe has joined Guild and we are making a significant investment to bring this product to the world.
We are looking to add a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer who has a passion for building enterprise SaaS products. You will leverage your full-stack development experience and understanding of the rigors of enterprise SaaS solutions to quickly bring new product capabilities to life and iterate on them to satisfy market demand and scale in response to growth. Although youâre an expert in several front-end technologies (including React), we expect you to be comfortable building anywhere within the full stack of web systems. You will operate within a diverse team including engineers, product managers, designers, operators, customer support, and sales to accelerate Guildâs mission and expand Guildâs market.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Build and maintain software solutions and services that ensure quality, scalability, and resiliency based on customer and business needs.
- Create production-ready, rugged, maintainable, and well-tested code across various technologies, including AWS, TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL.
- Actively contribute to optimizing workflows and improving team velocity through technical enhancements.
- Proactively identify and raise blockers, technical debt, and concerns to enable faster resolution by leveraging broader team knowledge and expertise.
- Improve the stability, performance, and monitoring of services while participating in on-call and incident response processes.
- Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement, encouraging team members to develop technical and problem-solving skills.
- Work closely with our product and design teams to develop solutions, plan stories, and provide accurate estimates while ensuring that features delivered meet requirements and are delivered on-time.
You are a strong fit for this role if you have:
- Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, especially in a distributed working environment
- Build with simplicity, reliability, and scalability in mind.
- Know how and when to use AI to enhance your productivity.
- Expertise in several (or all!) of these tools and technologies: Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, REST, and GraphQL. Familiarity with other languages, API protocols, and databases can also work for us!
- Expertise building and owning multiple services and user interfacesâdata modeling, unit and integration testing, application monitoring, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD).
- Expertise with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean), database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL), and modern source control (Git / Github).
- Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies.
- Willingness to embrace change and work within a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for education and our mission.
We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $XXX - $XXX, and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.
Guild is Americaâs leading talent development company, partnering with the countryâs most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent â enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and helping companies stay agile. By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms overlooked talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna 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
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