Magpie Literacy

Infrastructure Engineer

• Design and build platform capabilities across frontend, backend, and supporting infrastructure
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on new and existing features
• Treat the platform as a product by understanding customer needs and identifying friction points
• Use KPIs, OKRs, North Star metrics, and empirical data to measure impact and drive improvements
• Own features and services from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, infrastructure, and production support
• Improve the flow of work from idea to production
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Build and maintain APIs and integrate third-party services
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging
• Mentor engineers and contribute to their growth
• Participate in architectural decisions and define technical standards and best practices
• Stay current with emerging technologies and improve development processes
• Pair with teammates across disciplines and learn workflows, tools, and deployment practices
• Own smaller features or components end-to-end
• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and team decision-making
• Improve systems, processes, and developer experience
• Influence architecture, evolve the platform for scale, and support long-term technical planning
• Establish patterns, processes, and documentation that strengthen engineering culture

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Data Engineer

• Design and build platform capabilities for Magpie’s digital learning experiences
• Build scalable backend services, front-end interfaces, data models, and pipelines
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on new and existing features
• Maintain understanding of customer needs and identify platform friction points
• Use KPIs, OKRs, North Star metrics, and empirical evidence to guide decisions
• Own development from design through production and monitor live system performance
• Improve the flow of work from idea to production
• Write clean, efficient, and documented code
• Build and maintain APIs and integrate third-party services
• Design and maintain data flows across databases, event-driven systems, analytics platforms, and downstream consumers
• Ensure application performance, quality, and responsiveness
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging
• Mentor engineers and contribute to their growth
• Contribute to architecture, technical standards, and best practices
• Stay current with emerging technologies and improve development processes
• Pair with cross-disciplinary teammates and learn workflows during the first 30 days
• Own smaller features or components end-to-end by day 60
• Help shape architecture, mentor teammates, and influence long-term technical planning by day 90

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer, Data