Senior Software Engineer I

At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!

Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for delivering product enhancements to our award-

winning cloud-hosted educational software platform by leveraging state-of-the-art technology

frameworks collaborating closely with product management on engineering teams.

Essential duties/responsibilities:

1. Develop software in collaboration with product owners, to deliver i-Ready experiences.

2. Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to design robust software ensuring seamless

customer experience at scale.

3. Operate with a continuous improvement mindset, conducting code and design reviews, as well

as leveraging state-of-the-art code quality and productivity tools.

4. Develop automated unit and integration tests to accompany all application code.

5. Contribute ideas and effort to improve efficiency of our software development lifecycle.

6. Drive code maintainability by addressing technical debt and defects proactively.

7. Communicate clearly and consistently utilizing verbal and written forms, to ensure seamless

progress on shared team goals.

8. Engage in personal and peer development through mentorship program participation.

9. Engage in proactive learning to improve functional as well as technical knowledge.

Required Job Skills and Abilities:

1. Strong communication skills.

2. Expertise with Java, Spring, Hibernate/JPA and related frameworks.

3. Experience delivering cloud-hosted software services at scale, preferably AWS.

4. Proven experience in designing features to meet business needs.

5. Strong experience with SQL, Relational and Non-Relational databases.

6. Proven experience in database design and performance tuning.

7. Experience developing containerized services using docker.

8. Experience working in an Agile environment, including experience with Scrum.

Required Education and Experience:

1. Bachelor’s in computer science preferred

2. 5+ years of experience in web application development.