# Senior Software Engineer at Illuminate Education

- Company: Illuminate Education
- What the company does: Let’s transform education together. Get answers to your questions to increase student and educator success. Backed by Insight.
- Company website: https://www.illuminateed.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $110K to $151K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/renaissancelearning-nam/jobs/5416488008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/illuminate-education-senior-software-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for an experienced, talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Student Activities team at Freckle by Renaissance — a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology. Freckle makes sure no student gets left behind through its adaptive, personalized practice programs. You'll bring your talents and expertise to continue building and scaling our highly available, distributed SaaS platform, used by millions of K-12 students every month worldwide.

## What they're looking for

- Design data models and schemas that keep our systems correct, performant, and maintainable as they scale
- Build and maintain highly available web and backend systems that serve millions of users and thousands of requests per second
- Thoughtfully adopt AI tooling to accelerate your own work and improve how the team builds, ships and maintain software
- Maintain and evolve backend services like our curricula-api and progress services that power student practice and reporting
- Mentor and support other engineers, conduct code reviews, and champion strong engineering practices across the team
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, and communicate effectively in a distributed remote work environment

Tags: Practice