Staff Engineer (Grow Talent Experience)

Join Guild, a company dedicated to transforming education and career growth. As a Staff Engineer on the Grow Talent Experience team, you will design and deliver robust software solutions that enhance the member experience. You will work in a fast-paced environment, leveraging your full-stack development experience to bring new product capabilities to life. Your responsibilities will include building user interfaces, writing clean code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and improving internal development processes. You will also have access to a wide range of benefits, including wellness resources, education assistance, equity stake in the company, and generous leave policies.

• Design, build, and own new user interfaces, services, and infrastructure, ensuring high availability and quality in releases.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to develop adaptable, high-impact systems that help partners deliver seamless access to Guild’s education benefits and coaching services.
• Lead engineering efforts, sharing knowledge and feedback both inside and outside your team, and elevate the skills of other engineers on the team through mentoring and guidance.
• Expertise with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean), database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL), and modern source control (Git / Github)
• Expertise in several (or all!) of these tools and technologies: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and GraphQL
• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar
• Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, especially in a distributed working environment
• Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI) and building AI-powered features, including assistants, summarization, RAG workflows, or vector search
• Expertise building and owning multiple services and user interfaces - data modeling, unit and integration testing, application monitoring, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)