Senior Software Developer

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building innovative applications of the highest quality and demonstrate ownership of the product area assigned to them.

Key Responsibilities:

Work closely with the product management team to ensure we're building the best products. Ability to comprehend business requirements, map them to technical requirements, and decompose them into estimated stories and tasks.

Perform research, analysis, design, and implementation, and provide effective solutions for short-term and long-term needs

Evaluate new technologies and software products to determine the feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities into the platform.

Deploy and manage cloud-based services on AWS, leveraging services such as CodeBuild & Pipeline, Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.

Ensure that code adheres to strict standards for accessibility, security, object-oriented practices and performance

Optimize backend processes for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

Write and execute both unit and integration tests

Ability to debug identified issues and track down root cause of the issue across the technology stack

Mentor other team members and developers

Effectively engage and positively contribute within a well-functioning offshore team, while also providing strong leadership during onshore hours.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with strong fundamentals and problem solving skills.

• 5+ years experience in software development roles

• Expert knowledge and capabilities in Java 8+ development, SpringBoot, RESTful APIs, Java Application Servers, HTML / CSS.

• Strong understanding of microservices design principles and best practices.

• Hands-on experience with AWS services, such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, and S3.

• Experience with containerization tools like Docker, CDK and orchestration using AWS Fargate

• Strong knowledge of JavaScript technologies such as Angular and Node.js

• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Jasmine.

• Experience with SQL and relational database design.

• Experience building and deploying services in AWS Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot distributed systems/services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with learning services technologies such as the SCORM object reference model, IMS QTI and IMS LTI standards, and any Learning

• Experience with with Git is a plus

• Knowledge of GraphQL a plus

• Knowledge of UML and design patterns

• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, Datadog

• Experience writing modular code in an agile environment with CI/CD

• Knowledge of concepts and standards such as SOLID, Dependency Injection, AOP, JSON.

• Understanding of Cloud Architecture and experience working with AWS resources

• AWS certification is a plus (Cloud Practitioner or higher)

• Ability to effectively use AI to accelerate software design and implementation