At Riverside Insights, we’re building a world-class technology platform to empower learners and educators with deep, actionable insights. As our Sr. Staff Architect, you’ll shape the future of our engineering practices and platforms. Your mission is to lead the design of scalable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions that support our vision of a low-cost assessment platform. You’ll drive architectural strategy, ensure technical excellence, and champion the tools and processes that deliver real value to our users and our business.
In this role you will get to:
- Drive architectural consistency across engineering projects, promoting simplicity and robust design.
- Maintain system uptime and ensure zero critical software or DevOps incidents through high-quality solutions and resilient systems.
- Lead strategic technology progression across the stack and align technical execution with product goals on a quarterly basis.
- Facilitate architectural reviews and collaboration among Staff Engineers and technical leaders to ensure cohesive execution.
- Identify trade-offs and escalate decisions to balance quality, scope, and delivery timelines effectively.
- Guide and assist in delivering critical projects around district-wide rostering and proctored assessments, research-driven scoring, and data integrations.
- Support high-priority recovery and repair initiatives to reduce support tickets and enhance platform stability.
Disclaimer
The above statements describe the general nature and level of the work performed by people assigned to this work. This list does not cover all possible duties, tasks, or responsibilities. Riverside Insights may amend or change responsibilities to meet the needs of the business and organization as necessary.
- Experience with technical oversight/responsibility across multiple teams and technologies in an organization – as an architect, director, or senior/principal staff.
- Mastery of native AWS service development using serverless, distributed, event-driven, and cost-effective scalable techniques, including usage of Python, .NET Core, node.js/Typescript, and Terraform.
- Prior experience leading iterative cloud transformations of legacy monolithic software into native AWS implementations.
- Mastery in areas of legacy technology, to lead their improvement and/or adaptation in AWS, including .NET Framework, Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and MFC.
- A DevOps-focused mindset of designing services that are observable, independently testable, scalable, and high-quality.
- Strong communication skills and can clearly and concisely set expectations and provide direct feedback as needed.
Physical Requirements:
- Remote
- Up to 5% travel
- May require extended periods of stationary work (sitting or standing)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
- Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance
- Company paid short-term and long-term disability
- Supplemental life insurance options
- Company paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Retirement plan with discretionary company matching
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
- Premium subscription to Calm for employee and dependents
- Company paid time off (PTO)
- 13 named holidays, 2 floating holidays, and 4 early-release half days
- Quarterly Focus Days
- Flexible work arrangements
- Work-from-home expense reimbursement
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Company orientation and 30/60/90 Day Onboarding
Compensation: A reasonable estimate of the base compensation range for this position is $180,000 - $210,000 USD plus applicable bonus. This compensation range is specific to the United States and it incorporates many factors including but not limited to an applicant's skills and prior relevant experience and training; licensures, degrees, and certifications; internal pay ranges; and market data/range parameters.
Who is Riverside Insights? Riverside Insights is a growth-focused business on a mission to elevate one billion lives globally by 2030 through research-based assessments and technology for educational professionals, students, clinical and behavioral health clients, and workforce talent.
Why Join Our Team?
At Riverside Insights, achieving real results for students and educators is more than talk – it's what we do. As we grow, so will you, offering the chance to expand your skills on an ambitious, solution-focused team. Join us in making great work possible, where your well-being and dedication to making an impact go hand in hand. If you're ready for an ambitious, collaborative environment, Riverside is the place for you.
Riverside Insights is an Equal-opportunity Employer:
Riverside Insights provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
At Riverside Insights, every employee has the right to a welcoming and inclusive workplace where their diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued and celebrated.
Thank you for considering joining our growing team and our mission to help elevate potential globally! Please check out to learn more about our work.
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What We Do
ssessments play a critical role in unlocking a person’s true potential. Actionable insights — derived from accurate, reliable and consistent data — create opportunities that help people thrive.
Through our proven portfolio of trusted and precise assessment solutions, Riverside Insights offers the clarity and perspective needed to create a meaningful impact at the state, district and individual levels. We're dedicated to creating and providing a broad range of high-quality, time-tested professional testing products and services as well as delivering meaningful information that can enhance the lives of children and adults.
At Riverside Insights, we are fueled by a powerful mission: to provide insights that help elevate potential. This stems from a core belief that every person should have the ability to understand their potential and be guided to the resources that enables them to realize that potential.
We aspire to enrich 1B lives globally by 2030 by providing insights born of research-based assessments to students, clinical patients, and employees/companies.
Elevating potential is what we do… and for over 80 years, developing and providing research-based assessments has been how we do it. Riverside is one of the preeminent and most longstanding assessment developers/publishers nationally.
Riverside is a “purpose-fueled, values-led” company that is aligned behind a “PeopleFirst” ethos and a set of 5 very important core values that guide who we work with, how we make decisions, and the standard that we hold ourselves to.
Riverside Insights strives for excellence. We recognize that we must have the best people, and the best people are drawn from the broadest pool of applicants. The people we need can be found only by looking across the full spectrum of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, qualified veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation and gender identity.
