Location: Charlotte, NC, USA ? Virtual Req Number: Req #53 Date Posted: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
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 Senior Software Engineer you’ll work with other Engineering leads to enhance, secure, maintain and optimize our applications. In this role we expect you to add senior-level experience to the back-end engineering team and be capable of participating in our DevOps culture.
About the Role This is a hands-on role where you’ll write code daily and contribute to production releases multiple times a month.
Design, build, and maintain our high-volume global education services
Work across our Development, Infrastructure and Ops teams collaboratively. Developers participating in the culture of DevOps support and maintain both code and the infrastructure-as-code within which our applications run
Contribute daily to the broader engineering team’s code review and architecture
Continually improve our documentation and standards
Requirements
Professional Experience: 5+ years of production back-end development experience
Knowledge & Skills:
Extensive experience with Python in a large production environment
Extensive experience with Flask
Expert level experience building web applications with Python, SQL, Redis/MongoDB (or other no-SQL DB technologies)
Password authentication and User Session management experience
DevOps experience
Excellent problem solving, design, development and debugging skills
Experience with SQL (MS SQL Server), MongoDB, and similar databases
Understanding of distributed datastores and the complexities of distributed systems
Experience optimizing systems in addition to optimizing individual components
Experience with LDAP, SAML, LTI, OAuth2, Identity Provider and consumer concepts, and single sign on technology in general
Experience with unit testing
Solid understanding of caching strategies including cache invalidation
Expert understanding of object-oriented design and programming
Excellent problem solving, design, development, and debugging skills
Experience with load testing and fault tolerance testing
Bonus Skills: Web Security, Flask, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, MS SQL Server, i18n, ML and NLP experience
Education: Bachelors Degree in CS related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication as well as strong interpersonal skills
Systems Thinker: Proficient in putting together facts about and properties of multiple system components when solving problems and designing improvements and new components.
Self-Motivation and Self-Starter: Driven self-starter with the ability to do what needs to be done without being micromanaged; demonstrate a problem solving/ solution-oriented approach.
Legal right to work in the United States
Benefits
We are proud to offer employees and their families a comprehensive benefits package:
Medical-Dental-Vision
Health Care Dependent Care
Short & Long Term Disability
Summer Hours
Life Insurance
401(k)
FSA/HSA
Paid Time Off
Volunteer Time
Employee Assistance Program
7 Paid Holidays + Annual Winter Holiday Break (Typically the last week of December)
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.
