Vista Higher Learning-posted 3 months ago
$130,000 - $140,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Boston, MA
101-250 employees

In the role of Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will join our talented and growing Development team that is an essential part of building Vista Higher Learning’s unique and industry leading online language education products sold in the K-12 and Higher Education markets.

  • Participate in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • Perform tests to optimize performance
  • Write clean code to develop functioning web applications
  • Work effectively and collaborate with different team members to deliver on-time and efficient projects
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 7+ year’s Backend Software Engineering experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails or Python + JavaScript
  • Demonstrated software architectural design experience, including data persistence and API design
  • Strong understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM APIs and AI tooling
  • Strong understanding of networking and web browser protocols
  • Advanced working knowledge of nix systems, and comfort working at terminal command line.
  • Advanced SQL and DB schema design knowledge
  • Advanced working knowledge of git & GitHub
  • Experience collaborating with other departments/teams
  • Strong communication, listening and interpersonal skills to be able to actively listen to needs and respond to audience appropriately
  • Fullstack development experience
  • Knowledge around LLM evaluation and MLOps practices
  • Experience with Sagemaker, AWS Poly, Azure Speech Service
  • Experience with SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch
  • Experience building and deploying high-capacity applications in cloud environments, especially AWS
  • A strong understanding of how to architect solutions for scalability and performance
  • Experience with Ruby highly preferred
  • Experience in ed-tech, education, language-learning or a similar industry
  • Familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and best practices for meeting 2.1 AA compliance
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