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Job Summary:
Nightingale Education Group is focused on higher learning in healthcare professions, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and ship production software. The role involves full-cycle development across internal applications, API integrations, and platform tooling, while ensuring code quality and compliance with institutional policies.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and deploy internal applications and API integrations using Python, adhering to team architecture standards and code quality expectations.
• Develop frontend interfaces, collaborating with stakeholders to deliver functional, user-facing tools.
• Participate in all phases of the SDLC — requirements gathering, architecture review, development, code review, testing, and deployment.
• Identify and resolve bugs, performance issues, and security vulnerabilities in existing applications.
• Write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests to meet coverage targets on critical paths.
• Conduct code reviews — evaluating both human-written and AI-generated code for correctness, security, readability, and adherence to architecture standards.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance using GitHub Actions or GCP Cloud Build.
• Implement and maintain health endpoints and monitoring for all deployed products.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality through established review practices.
• Develop with awareness of FERPA and institutional security requirements, ensuring student data is handled in compliance with federal and institutional policy.
• Serve as a technical mentor — elevating the team's engineering practices through code review, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architecture decision records, and runbooks.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience is required.
• Strong proficiency in Python with experience in FastAPI, Flask, or similar web frameworks is required.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational database management (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or similar) is required.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and working with Git, GitHub, and pull request-based workflows is required.
• Experience with Docker, containerized deployments, and CI/CD concepts and pipeline configuration is required.
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional team, and familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies are required.
Preferred:
• Experience with Go (APIs, services, or CLI tools), React or modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, or HTMX is preferred.
• Experience with GCP services (Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, BigQuery), Snowflake, or infrastructure as code (Terraform) is preferred.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (pytest, Playwright), AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor), or security scanning tools is preferred; higher education experience a plus.
Company:
Nightingale Group contributes to closing health equity gaps by elevating education and employment systems to create a relevantly skilled, readily available nursing workforce, representative of the communities they serve. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, US, , with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.