Software Engineer III

McGraw Hill LLC.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

1d•Remote

About The Position

McGraw Hill creates best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms used by millions of students and educators globally. The Assess Engineering team is seeking an experienced, collaborative, and adaptable Software Engineer III. This role requires independent creativity, a curiosity for new technologies, and a strong desire to solve complex technical issues while meeting deadlines. The primary focus will be on developing new platform capabilities for the K-12 Assessment platform. This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

Requirements

Demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product & engineering team.
3+ years creating modern web applications with API backends and event-driven systems.
Ability to work in a fast-paced software release environment, delivering production-grade software daily for a system with millions of users.
Ability to contribute to the full software development life cycle, including writing application code, unit/integration/automation tests, documentation, and performance engineering.
Applied knowledge of RESTful Web Services (producing and consuming).
Applied knowledge of Frontend development with tools such as Angular.
Applied knowledge of Relational database design concepts (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
Applied knowledge of Application Testing (unit, integration, performance, end to end) for full user journeys.
Applied knowledge of Cloud Technologies (preferably Amazon Web Services – EKS, RDS, S3, others).
Applied knowledge of Code Quality and Code Review.
Ability to write adhoc SQL queries and scripts to analyze usage and performance data.

Nice To Haves

Curiosity about building products that use LLM-based AI technologies.
Excitement about building scalable, performant APIs and intuitive front ends.
Some understanding of Build/deploy tools (Github Actions, npm).
Some understanding of Source/Version control systems (Git).

Responsibilities

Use interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership in engineering and business.
Analyze business requirements, identifying gaps, ambiguities, and missing scenarios.
Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet business needs.
Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively.
Build high-quality, user-friendly, scalable APIs and data-centric backend processes.
Utilize modern AI tools like Github Copilot to accelerate work.
Work on a mix of projects involving both existing and new codebases.
Adopt a "shift-left" mentality toward testing, focusing on automated testing written alongside code.