Full-Time

Senior Software Engineer

Front End

Posted on 9/26/2025

Guild Education

Guild Education

1,001-5,000 employees

Employee education benefits platform for employers

No salary listed

Washington, USA + 32 more

More locations: Kansas, USA | Pennsylvania, USA | Oregon, USA | California, USA | Washington, DC, USA | Texas, USA | Jackson Township, NJ, USA | Florida, USA | Waterbury, CT, USA | Nevada, USA | South Carolina, USA | Georgia, USA | Arizona, USA | Concord, NH, USA | Tennessee, USA | Virginia, USA | Minnesota, USA | Colorado, USA | Utah, USA | New York, NY, USA | Maryland, USA | Wisconsin, USA | Maine, USA | Massachusetts, USA | North Carolina, USA | Oklahoma, USA | Missouri, USA | Ohio, USA | Indiana, USA | Michigan, USA | Illinois, USA | Idaho, USA

Remote

Candidates must be able to live and work full-time in one of the 32 specified states.

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
Python
React.js
MySQL
NoSQL
Git
Postgres
GraphQL
TypeScript
AWS
HTML/CSS
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • Excellent cross-team communication and collaboration skills, especially in a distributed working environment
  • Expertise in several (or all!) of these tools and technologies: Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, REST, and GraphQL
  • Expertise building and owning multiple services and user interfaces—data modeling, unit and integration testing, application monitoring, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
  • Expertise with a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean), database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL), and modern source control (Git / Github)
  • Demonstrated curiosity and interest in keeping up and experimenting with new technologies
  • Willingness to embrace change and work within a fast-paced environment
  • Passion for education and our mission
Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain software solutions and services that ensure quality, scalability, and resiliency based on customer and business needs
  • Create production-ready, rugged, maintainable, and well-tested code across various technologies, including AWS, TypeScript, React, Python, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL
  • Actively contribute to optimizing workflows and improving team velocity through technical enhancements
  • Proactively identify and raise blockers, technical debt, and concerns to enable faster resolution by leveraging broader team knowledge and expertise
  • Improve the stability, performance, and monitoring of services while participating in on-call and incident response processes
  • Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement, encouraging team members to develop technical and problem-solving skills
  • Work closely with our product and design teams to develop solutions, plan stories, and provide accurate estimates while ensuring that features delivered meet requirements and are delivered on-time

Guild Education helps companies invest in their employees’ education by offering education benefits through employer partnerships. It works with large employers to provide tuition reimbursement, access to online courses, and degree programs from accredited schools via a managed platform. Employers pay fees to administer these education programs, and Guild earns commissions from educational institutions for student enrollments. The platform streamlines how employees access funding and courses, aligning education benefits with company goals. Compared to competitors, Guild Education centers its product on turning education benefits into a strategic HR and talent development lever, combining workforce development with diversity and internal mobility, and delivering scalable programs that support retention and recruitment. Its goal is to improve talent acquisition, reduce turnover, upskill the workforce, and boost ROI and brand value for employers.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series F

Total Funding

$643.5M

Headquarters

Denver, Colorado

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Guild raised $264 million in equity for expansion in 2026.
  • MOD Pizza expanded tuition-free degrees to 10,000 workers via Guild.
  • Regions Bank introduced tuition-free benefits to all associates through Guild.

What critics are saying

  • Edtech layoffs force Guild's cash burn without new contracts in 2026.
  • Coursera steals Walmart clients with lower-fee AI upskilling in 2027.
  • Recession cuts Hilton's Guild contract amid 15% HR budget reductions.

What makes Guild Education unique

  • Guild's platform pairs education with AI insights via Guild Talent Advantage.
  • Guild manages tuition benefits for 3 million workers at Walmart and Disney.
  • Guild's tech-enabled advising supports employees from discovery to completion.

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Benefits

Be an owner - Every employee is granted equity in Guild with a 4-year vesting schedule as well as a 401(k).

Prioritize your time - We offer generous parental leave, PTO, and onsite daycare for Denver-based employees

Have a learner's mindset - Guild offers student loan reimbursement, 100% tuition assistance for your first bachelor’s degree, and $10K/year toward additional education.

Take care of yourself - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans because we care about the health and well-being of all Guild employees.

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

-3%
Guild
Oct 10th, 2024
Guild Announces Acquisition of Nomadic, a Leading Capability Academy; Introduces Guild Talent Advantage

Guild Talent Advantage is a first-of-its-kind product suite that pairs education, skilling, and academy experiences with AI insights to empower HR leaders to address a range of urgent talent transformation priorities.

IT Security Guru
Mar 16th, 2023
Salt Security and Guild Education

Salt Security, the API security company, is working with Guild Education, the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, to implement the Salt Security API Protection Platform to secure its growing application programming interface (API) ecosystem.

Inside INdiana Business
Feb 1st, 2023
Ivy Tech partners with employment matching platform – Inside INdiana Business

INDIANAPOLIS - Ivy Tech Community College is partnering with career opportunity platform Guild to provide employers with additional options for personal and professional growth.

RecruitingDaily.com LLC
Dec 13th, 2022
Visionary Patagonia People Leader Joins Guild as CPO

Learning and c areer opportunity company Guild Education welcomed Dean Carter as its new chief people officer (CPO).

Business Wire
Dec 1st, 2022
Mod Pizza Offers Tuition-Free College To Its 10,000+ Squad Members

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, MOD Pizza, the purpose-led, people-first brand, announced the significant expansion of its Journey Program to include a robust list of company-paid educational curriculums for its MOD Squad members. Through a new partnership with Guild, MOD’s 10,000+ Squad members in company-owned stores across the U.S. can now unlock life-changing opportunities for both personal and professional advancement. The expanded program will cover the cost of full tuition, plus all books and fees, providing Squad members the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree, professional certificates, or enroll in English language learning – all through Guild’s Learning Marketplace and Career Opportunity Platform. “This is an important investment for MOD, and one that can help remove the barriers to education and career mobility that exist for so many,” said Ally Svenson, MOD’s co-founder and protector of the purpose. “The MOD Journey Program is designed to support and serve the people of MOD and ensure we are providing opportunities that will positively impact their lives. There’s nothing more important to us than knowing our Squads can pursue their personal and professional dreams as part of their MOD journey!”

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