Senior Software Engineer

Posted Friday, September 20, 2024 at 4:00 AM

Discovery Education is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Product Development agile teams where you’ll support existing products and help to define, build, and deliver new features and products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work with your team to enhance, maintain, secure, and optimize our applications - and by doing so, truly make a difference in the world.

In This Role You Will:

This is a hands-on role where you’ll write code daily and contribute to continuous delivery of client-facing applications.

• Write code with a focus on, but not limited to, the backend parts of software products.
• Deploy customer-facing features on a weekly (or daily) basis.
• Collaborate daily with your agile team, provide estimates, perform analysis, and write code.
• Participate in our culture of DevOps - support and maintain both code and the infrastructure-as-code within which our applications operate.
• Contribute daily to the broader engineering team’s code review and architecture.
• Actively participate in team meetings such as exits, demos, retrospectives, grooming, and planning – helping facilitate streamlined team functioning.
• Own parts of feature sets from inception through implementation and past release into customer use.
• Advocate for technology work (such as technical debt) with product managers so that the right mix of core infrastructure and external features get built.
• Participate in code reviews for peers.
• Understand the business needs and suggest alternatives for solving them.

Responsibilities:

• This is a hands-on, senior engineering role with a focus on backend development in a microservices architecture.
• Deliver clean and performant code to support Discovery Education’s web applications.
• Implement new product features, as well as enhance and maintain existing functionality by monitoring solutions and performance characteristics.
• Ensure the scalability and quality of all code.
• Continually improve our development process, documentation, and standards.
• Participate in team code reviews to ensure code quality standards.
• Participate in build system maintenance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and teammates on design and architecture of web applications.

Core Competencies for Success:

• Excellent written and oral communication as well as strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, design, development, and debugging skills.
• Extensive experience with Java in an enterprise environment.
• Experience working with AWS services.
• Experience working with Docker in a CI/CD environment.
• Experience with MySQL, Redis, or similar databases.
• Expert understanding of object-oriented design and programming.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Team player with the ability to do what needs to be done without being micromanaged.
• Ability to manage/prioritize multiple tasks.
• Bonus Skills:
• Redshift, JavaScript, Angular, Mentoring.

Credentials and Experience:

• 5-8+ years of production back-end development experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a CS-related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Legal right to work in the United States.

This is a remote role.

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At Discovery Education , we are fulfilling our mission of preparing learners for tomorrow by creating innovative classrooms connected to today's world.

Serving more than 4.5 million educators and 45 million students, available in approximately half of U.S. classrooms and primary schools in the UK, and more than 140 countries around the globe; we are on a journey to transform teaching and learning through innovative partnerships with school districts, states, ministries of education, and other like-minded organizations.

We have built an award-winning and highly reputable organization because of talented and driven people who work together to accelerate student achievement by tapping into students' natural curiosity and desire to learn by capturing their minds and imagination through the fascination of Discovery.

Why Join Discovery Education?

Discovery Education believes empowering each team member is vital to cultivating high-performing, highly engaged teams. Being a part of our team means we partner together to achieve mutual goals. To this end, Discovery Education offers a robust and comprehensive insurance package. You can find a complete listing on our Career Page.

Along with traditional insurance offerings, our inclusive offerings center around:

• Career Development Ownership - Be the driver of your success!
• Continuing Education AND Tuition Reimbursement Programs.
• Mentorship program and collaboration with veteran leaders.
• Constant opportunities for cross-functional training and skill building.

Team Member Wellness: When you feel great, you do great work!

• Leave for life’s moments including 7 recognized holidays.
• Take PTO without the vacation guilt.
• Up to 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
• Annual Winter Holiday Break (typically the last week of December).

This opportunity is perfect for people interested in joining a high-performing, collaborative team, who enjoy a dynamic industry, and are excited about high-impact, project-based work.

Inspired? We would love the opportunity to review your candidacy! Select the blue “Apply Now” button at the bottom left of the screen to begin your application.

Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or genetic information.