Texas State Technical College · 3 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
Fort Bend County Campus
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expTexas State Technical College is seeking a highly motivated Staff Software Engineer to design, build and launch features and improvements to their web application. The role involves developing high-quality web applications and API services to assist jobseekers, employers, and educators. The engineer will also provide technical leadership and mentoring to the team while ensuring adherence to best practices in software development.
EducationInformation Technology
Responsibilities
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
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
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Preferred
Texas based candidates preferred
Company
Texas State Technical College
Texas State Technical College is a two-year technical state college with 10 campuses throughout Texas.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.85MKey Investors
Texas Semiconductor Innovation FundLowe's FoundationOffice of Texas Governor
2026-01-08Grant· $3.5M
2025-07-18Grant
2022-07-07Grant· $0.35M
Leadership Team
Michael Bettersworth
Chief Marketing Officer
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