Senior Backend Engineer

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Tysons Corner, VA
In-Office
10-10 Annually
Senior level
Edtech
The Role
Design, implement, and test backend software solutions for K-12 learning systems, utilizing NodeJS and AWS services. Collaborate with teams to deliver high-quality products.
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The Senior Software Engineer designs, codes, and tests software solutions for learning systems.  He or she will be mainly responsible for the development of the backend and integration software products for Pansophic Learning.  The Senior Software Engineer must be able to deliver the products with high quality and in a timely manner.

The Senior Software Engineer will work directly under Software Development Manager and work collaboratively with other Software Engineers, QA/Test Engineers and other team members.  He or she will be expected to innovate and provide suggestions and solutions to maintain and improve the current and future developments of the company.

*** VISA sponsorship is not available ***

This position will work 4 days per week in office.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and test software solutions for K-12 schools’ learning environments
  • Design, implement, and test REST-ful web services using NodeJS
  • Perform data modeling to design relational and NoSQL/document databases
  • Work with various services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build, host and maintain application environments
  • Implement and manage best practices for maintaining source code repositories and branching/merging strategies with Git for multiple code bases and applications
  • Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
  • Provide analysis and troubleshooting for production issues & code deployment activity
  • Contribute to user interface design and development
  • Work collaboratively with other developers, testers and product owners

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or equivalent degree or experience and 10+ years of experience
  • Experience developing open standards-based solutions: web services, web applications, and modern user interfaces
  • Significant, demonstrable experience implementing features across the software development team and development environment
  • Ability to be a self-starter and work in a fast-paced environment solving challenging problems in designing, writing, editing, modifying and debugging code
  • Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
  • Deep understanding of relational databases and proficiency with SQL
  • Experience with NoSQL document databases, e.g. MongoDB
  • Experience with message queue technology and design patterns
  • 5+ years of experience with NodeJS
  • 10+ years of experience with object-oriented languages like JavaScript, TypeScript or similar languages
  • Familiarity with services within Amazon Web Services, i.e. S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS, EC2, CloudFront, Redshift
  • Desired experience with AWS CDK.
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services API
  • Experience with Git version control
  • Experience with Unix/Linux environment
  • Ability to pass federal and state criminal background checks (FBI/BCI)

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

  • Ability to think independently and contribute to the overall effort without much direction
  • Ability to work well within a team environment
  • Ability to work well under pressure

 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

It is our policy to abide by all federal, state and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination based solely on a person’s race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status, veteran status (including protected veterans), marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, familial status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other protected status except where a reasonable, bona fide occupational qualification exists.

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Top Skills

AWS
Git
JavaScript
MongoDB
Node.js
SQL
Typescript
Unix/Linux
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The Company
HQ: Tysons Corner, Virginia
159 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Pansophic Learning is an education company that strives to provide students and educators exceptional learning solutions that enable them to maximize their success academically and in life, regardless of geographic, financial, or demographic circumstance.

These learning solutions include high quality content, technology, teaching and exceptional schools. We currently have several operating businesses that are located in the United States, Switzerland, and the Middle East. These businesses include online schools, brick and mortar schools, blended schools. Our Capital Education business partners with colleges to help them implement blended learning or online learning in a traditional college environment.



Pansophic Learning was founded to accelerate the proliferation of high quality solutions for education not only in the U.S. but also globally. With this new company, we hope to address the following goals:


Expand technology based learning globally to generate better outcomes and more efficient educational models.
Optimize the intersection of blended learning and technology based learning to maximize the learning efficiency ratio and generate high quality student outcomes
Utilize technology to expand access, improve the quality of outcomes and lower the cost of education
Expand technology into other educational markets where it can significantly improve the efficiency or effectiveness of learning
Acquire or invest in companies or technologies that have the potential to improve learning outcomes that can benefit from our expertise, experience and networks

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