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. We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors.
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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:
- Nurture A Learner’s Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
- Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company
Guild is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to help scale our onboarding and data ingestion processes for new and existing client data integrations. In this role, you will build features to enhance the flexibility and reliability of our client integration processing.
We are looking for a product-minded Software Engineer to collaborate with stakeholders across Guild in developing software that enables our Employer Partners to empower their employees to maximize the benefits of Guild's affordable education programs and coaching services.
You will be a crucial teammate on day one, developing high-quality software capable of efficiently scaling alongside our ongoing business expansion.
As a Senior Software Engineer I, primary responsibilities include:
- Design and implement highly scalable and maintainable ETL systems for SFTP and API-based integrations, and beyond
- Ensure simplicity and flexibility in system architecture
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, designers, internal operations staff, and customer technical teams
- Craft clean, thoroughly tested, and reusable code to develop high-quality software that scales with our business group
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage senior/staff engineers to design resilient, decoupled solutions based on domain
- Guide the team in identifying, understanding, and refining the product’s requirements
- Spec solutions, test and resolve issues, and deploy quality software to production
- Improve processes & tools to enhance dev speed, deployment, quality, and security
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, planning, and retrospectives
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation 24/7 monitoring production system alerts & triage
- Work with the product team to ensure project plans, stories, and estimates are accurate
- Maintain existing Guild software and integrate multiple internal services and APIs
- Vested interest in issue resolution & sustainability of the team's software products
- Participate in support, data quality issue resolution, and root cause analysis
- Contribute to test automation and quality controls
The ideal candidate will have:
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
- Experience with AWS services (Lambda, Serrverless, Glue, API Gateway, CDK/AWS IaC)
- Knowledge of ETL best practices, PySpark, OpenAPI Spec, GraphQL
- Familiarity with Integration engineering & IPaaS tools such as SnapLogic
Ideal Candidate Qualities:
- Production experience in a AWS micro-service environment
- Ability to write simple, clean, and maintainable code
- Strong opinions, loosely held
- Willingness to take calculated risks and bring vision to your team and Guild
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement
- A passion for Guild’s mission & long-term vision
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.
At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America’s workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation’s largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy’s, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
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
- Open vacation policy for employees 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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What We Do
Guild’s mission is to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education, skilling, and career mobility. Guild’s Career Opportunity Platform™ enables forward-thinking employers to invest in their employees, creating life-changing opportunities for personal and professional growth through education and learning programs, career development, and one-on-one coaching. Guild partners with the nation’s largest employers — including Walmart, Chipotle, Target, Disney, and healthcare systems like UCHealth and Providence Health — to create cultures of opportunity that will help them attract and retain top talent and grow their future workforce from within. Guild offers a marketplace of curated education and learning programs designed for the success of working adults. Layered onto that is support, guidance, and resources at every step to help ensure the new skills employees are building translate into career pathways that are in demand at their companies — all without paying for tuition or career services on their own. Through Guild’s partnerships, more than 5 million employees across America have had access to Guild through their employers over the last 12 months.
Why Work With Us
As a certified B-corp with a double-bottom line business model that does well by doing good, we're looking for people who want to help us expand economic opportunity through education. You’ll join a driven and collaborative team, be challenged every day, and go home knowing you’re helping to make a difference in the lives of working adults.
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