Senior Software Developer, Full Stack

About Modern Campus

Modern Campus empowers institutions to move with confidence across the modern learner journey. Our platform spans web content management, curriculum and catalog management, student engagement and lifelong learning — giving more than 1,700 colleges and universities the infrastructure they need to support the entire learner-to-earner lifecycle and deliver personalized, scalable experiences.
 We partner with the education community to create new pathways for learning and opportunity, reimagining how institutions serve the modern learner and shape the future of education.
Our purpose — our north star — is to empower institutions to confidently serve and support the modern learner.
 This mission and purpose come to life through how we show up every day:

• We exist to create empowerment through education.
• We lead with honesty and empathy.
• We shape the future through innovation.
• We become trusted partners.
• We make the complex feel possible.

What's the role?

As a Senior Full Stack Software Developer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based software applications used by thousands of users across North America. You will work across the full technology stack–front end, back end, and infrastructure–contributing to the ongoing evolution of our Message product.

This role is intentionally senior and high-impact. You will have strong React experience and help guide frontend patterns and practices while remaining deeply hands-on across the full stack – frontend, backend, and cloud stack.  You will help shape architecture, raise engineering standards, mentor teammates, and partner closely with technical leadership to execute on longer-term architectural direction.

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Apply deep React experience to the fronted design, patterns, and best practices, while contributing across the full stack.
• Lead complex architectural problem-solving across the frontend and backend, balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Help stabilize and evolve the system architecture by identifying technical debt, proposing improvements, and guiding implementation.
• Influence and uplift engineering standards through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on leadership.

Software Development

• Design, develop, and maintain full stack applications using our core go-forward stack:
• • React, TypeScript
  • Java, Spring Boot
  • PostgreSQL
• Build end-to-end solutions, delivering high-quality user experiences alongside robust backend services.
• Work effectively within both modernized systems and legacy components as the platform continues to evolve.
• Develop new features, enhance existing functionality, resolve defects, and contribute to overall technical health.

Cloud & Delivery

• Build and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable services on AWS using containerized and distributed architectures.
• Participate fully in the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
• Contribute to Agile planning, estimation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Mentorship & Collaboration

• Mentor and support other engineers, particularly in frontend and full-stack development.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering peers to deliver customer value efficiently.
• Serve as a technical partner to team leadership, helping ensure architectural direction is executed effectively.

What you offer...

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with significant full-stack web application development.
• Strong, hands-on expertise with React and TypeScript.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining complex frontend architectures in production environments.
• Strong experience with:
• • Java and Spring Boot
  • HTML5, CSS3, modern frontend patterns, and UI best practices
  • PostgreSQL and relational data modeling
  • RESTful API design and integration
  • Automated testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Playwright)
  • AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Event-driven and microservices-based architectures
• Experience working across legacy and modern systems in a pragmatic, evolution-focused environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead through influence and collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working on high-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with Java and Scala-based (legacy) services or distributed messaging systems.
• Familiarity with Angular application development (legacy).
• Experience mentoring junior developers or leading technical initiatives.

What We Value:

• Technical ownership: You take responsibility for solutions, outcomes, and long-term health–not just individual tasks.
• Quality and craft: You care deeply about clean code, thoughtful UI, and maintainable systems.
• Leadership through action: You lead by example, elevating others through collaboration and mentorship.
• Growth mindset: You continuously seek to improve systems, processes, and your own skills.

What we offer...

• The base salary range* for this position is between $100,000-$150,000
• Remote first workplace!
• Rewards and recognition programs
• Learning and development opportunities
• The ability to make a difference every day for universities trying to grow and students trying to learn!

Only qualified candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

What we believe...

At Modern Campus, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply for our positions. Modern Campus is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to bring on hires regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status (for US candidates).  If you require accommodations during any part of the interview process due to a disability, please let our recruiter know.
* Our salary ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hires for the position within the US and Canada. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.