Senior Software Developer, Full Stack - Modern Campus

About Modern Campus

Modern Campus empowers 1,700+ 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: 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.

What's 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 fronted design, patterns, and best practices, while contributing across the full stack.
• Lead complex architectural problem-solving across the frontend 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
• 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 soft