Senior Software Engineer

**Position:** Senior Software Engineer (Remote Contractor, Brazil) **Location:** Brazil - Remote, Brazil **Job Id:** 167 **# of Openings:** 6 * * * **Senior Software Engineer (Remote Contractor, Brazil)** **About the Role** Kuali's software powers the administrative core of higher education. Our Financials product manages the general ledger, procurement, budgeting, and accounts payable for universities — systems institutions use to move and account for real money under real audit scrutiny. Our platform products manage sponsored research, compliance, curriculum, and degree audit for roughly 150 institutions. As a Senior Software Engineer, you own a significant subsystem or product domain. You set its technical direction, you make the design decisions that determine whether it stays healthy for the next five years, and you are the engineer other engineers come to. You remain deeply hands-on — this is a building role — while carrying accountability for architecture, quality, and production health well beyond your own commits. You will work in mature, high-stakes systems where the cost of a defect is measured in an institution's financial close or a stalled research grant, and where deep domain knowledge compounds into real leverage. **Who are we?** Kuali builds software solutions for higher education. We help our customers — colleges & universities — focus on providing a fantastic education to students by decreasing their administrative costs. We work in a competitive space, ripe for innovation, with users ready to be delighted. **Our Culture** As a company, we are guided by our [cultural values:](https://www.kuali.co/jobs#values) - Iterate to evolve - Cultivate openness - Act with accountability - Assume the best - Practice humility - Deliver amazing experiences As Kuali Engineers, we learn from and teach each other, we practice transparency and empathy, we delight in delivering value to our customers, and we WIN! We work remotely and have for years. Distributed work is in our bones, with a history of institutions working together across state lines for more than twenty years. Our employees each work in the environment where they're happiest, from Pennsylvania to Seattle. We work consciously to create a collaborative and healthy remote work culture, and we travel to meet in person a few times each year. **About you** We're looking for curious, enthusiastic, empathetic Sr Software Engineers to solve problems, execute on ideas, advocate for the customer, and contribute to a team culture built on trust and mutual respect. As a Sr Software Engineer here, you'll have a significant impact on what we do and how we do it. We build and support systems using both Java and Node.js/React. We believe that great developers can always learn new tools. Above any specific tech stack, we're looking for versatile developers — those who know when to think big and when to act small, and who are comfortable in both greenfield and refactoring projects. We believe the best results are created by teams who represent a broad range of ideas and perspectives. We value team members with diverse backgrounds and experiences. **What You'll Own:** Architectural Ownership - Own the architecture of a significant product domain: service boundaries, data models, API contracts, performance characteristics, and failure behavior. - Lead technical discovery for large, ambiguous initiatives and convert them into sequenced, executable plans with credible estimates. - Make and document consequential design and build-versus-buy trade-offs, and be accountable for the results. - Drive deliberate remediation of technical debt with a business case leadership can act on. Hands-On Delivery - Design, build, and ship the most complex and highest-risk work in your domain. - Set the quality bar in code review, test strategy, and documentation. - Lead incremental refactoring and modernization of legacy components while maintaining continuous delivery to customers. Correctness, Security & Compliance - Own correctness in a domain where financial accuracy, audit trails, and tenancy isolation are non-negotiable. - Ensure your domain satisfies FERPA, SOC 2, and applicable state security program requirements. - Partner with Compliance and Security on assessments, evidence, and remediation. Production Ownership - Own your domain in production: SLOs, instrumentation, performance, and cloud cost. - Lead incident response and command significant incidents; drive systemic remediation afterward, not just the immediate fix. - Serve as escalation point for the hardest customer-reported issues in your area. Technical Leadership - Mentor engineers at all levels and measurably accelerate their growth. - Partner directly with Product and your Engineering Manager on roadmap feasibility, sequencing, and risk. - Represent your domain credibly to executives and, when it matters commercially, to customers. - Contribute to the orga