Software Engineer

Posted Monday, September 23, 2024 at 4:00 AM

Discovery Education is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. You’ll join one of our Product Development SCRUM teams where you’ll support existing products and help to define, build and deliver new features and products. As a Software Engineer you’ll work with your team to enhance, maintain, secure and optimize our applications.

In This Role You Will:

• Design, build, and maintain our high-volume global education services
• Collaborate daily with your SCRUM 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
• Contribute daily to the broader engineering team’s code review and architecture
• Continually improve our documentation and standards
• 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
• Proficient in putting together facts about and properties of multiple system components when solving problems and designing improvements and new components
• Driven self-starter with the ability to do what needs to be done without being micromanaged
• Ability to manage/prioritize multiple tasks
• Expert understanding of object-oriented design and programming
• Excellent problem solving, design, development, and debugging skills

Credentials and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in CS related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 5+ years of production back-end development experience
• Extensive experience with Python in a large production environment
• Experience with Flask
• Experience with SQL (MS SQL Server), MongoDB, Redis and similar databases
• Bonus Skills:
  • Web Security, Flask, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, MS SQL Server, i18n, ML and NLP experience
• Bonus Qualifications:
  • Experienced with front end development and JS frameworks, specifically VueJS
  • Experienced with Elastic Search
  • Experienced with Memcached
  • Experienced with Amazon Web Services: EC2, Lambda, S3
  • Experienced with Terraform
  • Experienced with LTI, SCORM and LMS Interoperability
  • Experienced with build systems and automation
  • Experienced with Internationalization, specifically flask babel or gettext
  • Experienced with oAuth and supporting multiple 3rd party authentication methods
• Legal right to work in the United States

This role can sit in our Charlotte headquarters or remote.

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 though 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.