Lead Software Engineer
About The Position
Impact the Moment McGraw Hill Connect is a course management and adaptive learning solution that enables millions of learners to achieve their full potential. In this role, you will be expanding Connect to put new learning tools in the hands of instructors and learners. How can you make an impact? In this role as a Lead Software Engineer, you will be the linchpin of the product – the technical expert for the product, sales, marketing and business teams and the product expert for the technical teams. By combining intimate knowledge of customers, strong analytical skills, and technical acumen, you will drive a holistic product vision that energizes your teammates and delights your customers. As an education innovation company, we're proud to play our part by inspiring learners around the world. If you bring your curiosity, we'll help you grow in a collaborative environment where everyone shares a passion for success. Even if you are not currently looking for a change, we encourage you to apply now and speak to the hiring manager to learn about the opportunity. This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 8+ years of equivalent application development experience is required.
- Product engineering background to support development of B2B and B2C products
- Ability to align technology decisions with business objectives and define the technical direction for the team.
- Experience building responsive, accessible and high-performance web-based products
- Experience in technical leadership/ownership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
- Experience with one or more observability platforms to monitor health of the products
- Knowledge of testing frameworks, code optimization, and security best practices.
- Cloud native development experience
- Java
- Expertise in Spring (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Transactions etc)
- Expertise in Angular for building scalable SPAs with strong TypeScript and RxJS skills.
- RESTful Services and Microservices Architecture
- CI / CD pipeline (GitHub Actions preferred)
- Skilled in creating Docker containers and orchestrating workloads
- Proficiency with databases like PostgreSQL, Oracle, RDS etc.
- Proficient in OAuth, JWT, and OWASP best practices for application security.
Nice To Haves
- 2+ years of experience managing distributed teams is preferred.
- Experience working with one of more Product Analytics tools
- Experience in chaos engineering techniques to validate the platform’s ability to withstand unexpected failures.
- Experience with AWS Services and Terraform (Good to have)
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a diverse and geographically distributed team of Engineers
- Participate in development and implementation of the vision for the team, spanning architecture, dependencies, engineering process, and technology decisions
- Work with product managers, designers, sales and marketing managers to build products that the customers love to use
- Be responsible for end-to-end delivery (tech design, development and testing) and maintenance of our products
- Make data driven decisions
- Leading quick, effective responses to production issues, and conducting post-incident reviews / RCAs to learn and improve.
- Collaborating with SREs to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), SLAs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
