Software Engineer

The Software Engineer designs and develops software and tools to support the core online learning system.

Responsibilities:

• Sphere of Influence: Self and Junior Members of the Team.
• Participates in all phases of development from definition and design through implementation, debugging, testing, and deployment of features across multiple subsystems within a large-scale, web-based customer-facing application.
• Participates in deeper technical design processes as knowledge grows.
• Collaborate on continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in scrum backlog refinement, planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospective meetings.
• Investigate, analyze, and make recommendations regarding technology improvements, standardization, scaling, upgrades, and modifications to our products and services utilized to deploy those products.
• Build relationships with squad members and motivate peers to achieve scrum goals.
• Identify and implement efficiencies for process improvement.
• Maintain strong development best practices across the team and department Other duties as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience, or an advanced degree without experience, or equivalent work experience

Technical Skills:

• Advanced knowledge in at least one domain; understands cross-domain relationships.
• Familiar with cloud infrastructure and operations.
• Technical experience in three of the following: Docker, LucidChart/Draw.io, Bash/Shell/Powershell, Cypress.io/Applitools/Selenium, Kibana, Snowflake, Flagr, Sentry, SQL/Mongo/Dynamo.
• Experienced with shell commands (AWS, sed, grep).
• Knowledge in HTML, HTML5, MVC, JavaScript, CSS, XML, RESTful web services, AJAX, and OOD.
• Experience with ReactJS and Redux, as well as MongoDB and SQL.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Excellent communication, coding, and analytical problem-solving skills.