About C4EO - SkillsEngine
SkillsEngine is a technology innovation team based in Austin, Texas. We build data-driven solutions to connect the worlds of learning and work through a unified skills language. We are backed by the nonprofit Center for Employability Outcomes (C4EO) at TSTC, Texas's only public technical training institution. Our mission is to drive positive economic impact and better opportunities for everyone, through a shared understanding of skills.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will report to the Director of Engineering and work closely with the engineering team to collect requirements, create technical designs, and implement software features, fixes and applications. You will apply your technical expertise and experience to give helpful, constructive feedback to other team members while maintaining team velocity. You must have a strong drive for results, interpersonal skills, as well as the ability and desire to tackle complex software challenges.
Texas based candidates preferred.
Essential Functions: Demonstrate TSTC's core values of Excellence, Accountability, Service, and Integrity
- Employee will demonstrate TSTC Core values of Excellence, Accountability, Service and Integrity with internal and external stakeholders, customers, students and members of the community.
- Be humble. Embrace humility and mutual respect, no egos allowed.
- Be adaptable. Be ready to take on new challenges and go above and beyond the call of duty.
- Be transparent. Speak candidly about successes, struggles, and failures and be honest with yourself and others, not afraid to ask for help when necessary.
Software Development & Architecture
- Develop high quality, maintainable code using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript while continuing to meet project deadlines.
- Use your in-depth knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards; code reviews; continuous integration; branch-based workflow; source control management; build processes; testing; and operations.
- Provide excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to tackle complex software challenges.
- Collect requirements, describe software features, create technical designs, and write pitches for proposed new features, fixes, systems, and applications.
- Contribute to maintaining web software security, data efficiency, and performance optimization.
- Implement computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.
- Contribute to functional specification development and help shape well-scoped engineering pitches.
Technical Leadership & Mentoring
- Craft new architectural designs with team members to meet pitch requirements.
- Use your technical expertise and experience to give helpful, constructive feedback through code reviews, peer programming and retrospectives.
- Seek and learn new tools, technologies, languages, and frameworks to best solve business and engineering challenges at-hand.
- Help onboard new engineers with SkillsEngine's processes, best practices and application architecture.
- Provide team leadership by identifying and distributing ownership of tasks, reducing scope, when necessary, across team members
- Help identify and surface areas for process improvement across the engineering team. Team Collaboration & Communication
Team Collaboration & Communication
- Provide timely and constructive updates of issues, timelines, and concerns to direct supervisors and team members
- Work closely with the team members to proactively prioritize development and limit scope (when necessary) with team members
- Actively participate within a small cross-functional team to develop and deliver code in a timely manner
Minimum Qualifications: Education/Experience
- 10+ years of experience developing web applications, data libraries, and API service.
- 5+ years of experience with SQL and relational database systems, PostgreSQL experience is a plus
- Experience with AWS and DevOps as it relates to deployments and scalability, especially utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity or experience with search engine optimization (SEO) and accessibility are a bonus
- Familiarity with user experience, graphic design, Python, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and data analytics is a benefit
Proactive, Adaptable, and Organized
- Thrive in the fast-paced and ever-changing environment of an early-stage startup; prioritizing and organizing multiple concurrent priorities, tasks, and projects in tandem.
- Demonstrate a willingness to aggressively learn new things and adapt to changing priorities and organizational needs.
- Deal well with ambiguity and flourish in an autonomous work environment as both an individual contributor and leading a team, requiring minimal hand-holding, and tackling ambiguous problems and new circumstances or situations in a structured, process-oriented manner.
#LI-KG1 Equal Opportunity Employer Texas State Technical College (TSTC), as an equal opportunity employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination. TSTC is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. Employment Eligibility Verification If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at TSTC. Background Checks A criminal history background check will be required for the finalist(s) under consideration for this position.
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TSTC
Feb 10, 2026