Software Engineer - Node js

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Software Engineering at HMH is focused on building fantastic software to meet the challenges facing teachers and learners, enabling and supporting a wide range of next generation learning experiences. We design and build custom applications and services used by millions. We are creating teams full of innovative, eager software professionals to build the products that will transform our industry.

We are staffing small, self-contained development teams with people who love solving problems, building high quality products and services. We use a wide range of technologies and are building up a next generation microservices platform that can make our learning tools and content available to all our customers.

If you want to make a difference in the lives of students and teachers and understand what it takes to deliver high quality software, we would love to talk to you about this opportunity.

Technology Stack

Youll work with technologies such as NodeJS, Kafka, Aurora, Mesos, Jenkins, Concourse etc.

This will be a hands-on coding role working as part of a cross-functional team alongside other developers, designers and quality engineers, within an agile development environment. We’re working on the development of our next generation learning platform and solutions utilizing the latest in server and web technologies.

About The Role

• Youll be responsible for designing, documenting, supporting and implementing microservices, which are used by ‘Ed’, our learning platform
• Youll possess strong coding capabilities, problem-solving skills and with the ability to communicate enthusiastically, clearly and concisely to other engineers within the larger team as well as with other HMH functional teams
• Our Software Engineers personify the notion of constant improvement as they work with their team to build software that delivers on our mission to improve student outcomes
• Youre not afraid to try new things even if they don’t work out as expected
• You are independent, self-directed, high energy and as eager to contribute to your team as you are to progress on your own path to software craftsmanship.
• Youll thrive working in a fast-paced, low friction environment where youll be exposed to a wide range of cutting edge technologies.
  
  

Responsibilities

• You will design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering large‑scale, high‑availability systems.
• Youll contribute to the technical leadership and collective ownership and delivery of component design, development and maintenance
• Youll initiate and manage code reviews
• Review and structure code generated code by AI agents as well as developed by team
• Work on incorporating business logic, integration points and other conditions not captured by the agents in the generated code.
• Youll contribute to our engineering culture and ever-improving concept of engineering best practices
• Youll have a proven understanding of project tracking and agile development methodologies
• Youll work collaboratively within a cross-functional, agile development team to solve problems, transfer knowledge and contribute to overall product architecture
  
  

Skills & Experience

• 3 to 5 years experience in a relevant software development role
• Experience in development of scalable, high‑performance Node.js services
• Experience in building RESTful or GraphQL APIs with proper versioning, error handling, and logging (DataDog).
• Experience with architectural concepts such as microservices and separation of concerns
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos
• Experience with messaging Systems such as Kafka and SQS
• Experience with Database and Caching technologies such as SQL, Aurora, and Redis
• Experience with development tools such as GitHub and Jira
• Hands-on expertise with AI-powered development tools like Codex, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, or similar.
• Experience in Test Driven Development and automated testing tools like Junit, Cucumber, Mockito, Pact, SonarQube and Gatling
• Mandatory any one cloud(AWS/Azure/Google) experience .
• Optional: Snowflake application will be added plus for all profile
  
  

Required Education

• Degree or Master’s in Computer Science or relevant discipline OR relevant work experience
  
  

The Information Technology organization is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation, and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions. Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.

We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on new technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.

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