Senior Software Developer, Full Stack

About Modern Campus

Modern Campus empowers 1700 higher education institutions to thrive when transformation is required to respond to lower student enrollments and revenue rising costs crushing student debt and administrative complexity. The Modern Campus learner-to-earner lifecycle platform power solutions for web content management conversational text messaging catalog and curriculum management career pathways student engagement and development and non-traditional student management. The result is innovative institutions engage their modern learners for life while providing modern administrators with the tools needed to streamline workflows and drive high efficiency.

Learn how Modern Campus is leading the modern learner-to-earner movement at moderncampus.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Whats 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 front-end design patterns and best practices while contributing across the full stack.
• Lead complex architectural problem-solving across the front-end 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, and 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

• 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.

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 bringing 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.