Back-end Senior Software Engineer II

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Summary:

The Senior Software Engineer II will be responsible for bringing new digital products to market and enhance existing ones by leveraging your expertise in software development with state-of-the-art industry frameworks collaborating closely with product management on engineering teams. The Literacy Tasks Product is part of CA Assessment suite and is designed to provide information on how a student is performing in phonological awareness, encoding, and fluency-related reading skills. The Senior Software Engineer II will have shared responsibility for the Literacy Task Backend (including the Lit Task Microservice), integration with the Front End and other iReady services.

Essential duties/responsibilities:

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

• Backend services and APIs using Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate.
• You have experience working with SQL and databases, including schema design and analytic SQL.
• You have experience with developing and scaling microservices on AWS. Experience designing and developing domain data models.
• Experience calling and using a wide variety of AWS services, AWS lambda, and backend services.
• Experience and passion for producing clear, maintainable, and testable code using tools like Junit, NGUnit, React Testing Library and Playwright.
• An Advantage is a proven hands-on experience with Front End Technologies like: React, Typescript, Javascript, Redux, Vite, Webpack.
  
  

Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to design robust software ensuring seamless customer experience at scale. Operate with a continuous improvement mindset, conducting code and design reviews, as well as leveraging state-of-the-art code quality and productivity tools. Develop automated unit and integration tests to accompany all application code. Contribute ideas and effort to improve efficiency of our software development lifecycle. Drive code maintainability by addressing technical debt and defects proactively. Communicate clearly and consistently utilizing verbal and written forms, to ensure seamless progress on shared team goals. Experience working with AI tooling such as Github Copilot or Cursor AI Engage in personal and peer development through mentorship program participation. Engage in proactive learning to improve functional as well as technical knowledge.

Required Job Skills and Abilities:

Strong communication skills. Experience with multiple frameworks and languages, advanced skills in at least one. Experience delivering cloud hosted software services at scale. Experience working in an Agile environment, including experience with Scrum.

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s in computer science preferred 8+ years of experience in web application development.

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