Senior Software Engineer (Remote Contractor, Brazil)
About the Role
We’re looking for six Senior Full Stack Engineers to join our team as remote contractors. We’re seeking experienced engineers based in Brazil or across Latin America who want to join a US engineering team building our next generation of our enterprise software platform for delivering amazing customer experiences to our clients. We are a world class engineering team, and only hire the best engineers!
In this role, you will work with many other engineers owning, architecting, and building an extremely valuable SaaS platform for the higher education industry.. You will work with other engineers, product managers, designers, and leaders as part of our world class software engineering team.
We’re a remote-first, results-driven team that values impact over hours. Fridays are kept flexible to wrap up anything outstanding, and success in this role is measured by the results you deliver and the impact you create—not by time spent online.
Who are we?
Kuali builds software solutions for higher education. We help our customers — colleges & universities — focus on providing a fantastic education to students by decreasing their administrative costs. We work in a competitive space, ripe for innovation, with users ready to be delighted.
Our Culture
As a company, we are guided by our cultural values:
- Iterate to evolve
- Cultivate openness
- Act with accountability
- Assume the best
- Practice humility
- Deliver amazing experiences
As Kuali Engineers, we learn from and teach each other, we practice transparency and empathy, we delight in delivering value to our customers, and we WIN!
We work remotely, and have for years. Distributed work is in our bones, with a history of institutions working together across state lines for more than twenty years. Our employees each work in the environment where they’re happiest, from Pennsylvania to Seattle. We work consciously to create a collaborative and healthy remote work culture, and we travel to meet in person a few times each year. We feel it’s important for employees to come to work refreshed and ready for the week so we have a four day work week policy, Monday-Thursday
Everyone should love their work.
Kuali has been voted a top place to work for 9 years by the Salt Lake Tribune. We also made Forbes' list of America's Best Startup Employers for 2020. Most recently, in 2024 TIME Magazine honored us by naming Kuali to their list of the World’s Top EdTech Companies, ranking us #99 overall and #37 in the US.
At Kuali, we embrace diversity and inclusion at every level. We value and respect individuals from all backgrounds, recognizing that a rich tapestry of experiences and perspectives fuels our success as a company and enriches our collective human experience.
About you
We’re looking for curious, enthusiastic, empathetic Sr Software Engineers to solve problems, execute on ideas, advocate for the customer, and contribute to a team culture built on trust and mutual respect. As a Sr Software Engineer here, you’ll have a significant impact on what we do and how we do it.
We build and support systems using both Java and Node.js/React. We believe that great developers can always learn new tools. Above any specific tech stack, we’re looking for versatile developers — those who know when to think big and when to act small, and who are comfortable in both greenfield and refactoring projects.
We believe the best results are created by teams who represent a broad range of ideas and perspectives. We value team members with diverse backgrounds and experiences
You...
- Have 3+ years experience building software or web applications with object-oriented or functional programming languages.
- Are willing to work on web applications on both the front- and back-end.
- Understand how to build solutions with an agile approach. You’re excited to collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers and use real-time feedback to solve problems iteratively.
- Are interested in using tests to verify proper functionality.
- Do not rely upon testers to ensure your code works correctly.
Required Skills:
- Fluent in English (English is our company’s official language)
- Full Stack TypeScript/JavaScript (React, NodeJS, etc)
- Relational Databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc)
- AWS
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
We’d be delighted if you bring experience with:
- Elasticsearch, MongoDB, other NoSQL Databases
- Logging technologies
- Elixir (experience with elixir is a plus - though you can learn elixir on the job)
- Experience owning and maintaining complex systems
Perks
- Remote-first and results-driven
- 4 Day work week!
- Competitive fixed monthly pay
- Space to work on self-driven projects during quarterly “hack weeks”
