LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Columbus Ohio

Company: McGraw-Hill Education
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posted On: 11/11/2024

Overview

Build the Future Do you enjoy testing the limits of possibility? At McGraw Hill, our Lead Software Engineers drive progress and help build the future of learning. If you have the passion and technical expertise to thrive in an innovative and agile environment, we want to learn more about you. Your impact on the team The Content Acceleration team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer with experience in helping teams deliver quality software. The content acceleration team is charged with deep collaboration with product and academic design teams to find creative ways to improve our speed to market for our curriculum products. This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. What you will be doing:

• Be the driving engineering force on your team and be able to clearly communicate business goals to your team
• Be an organizational leader in unlocking the potential of data to improve our user experience
• Collaborate with your partner product and program leaders to push projects forward by removing obstacles, think beyond the MVP, and clearly communicate status to stakeholders
• Provide creative solutions to content development professionals, using GenAI, automation, and process engineering
• Balance the need to solve deep technical problems with the larger macro goal of delivering software expediently and efficiently across a distributed microservice architecture
• Analyze business requirements and identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, etc.
• Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet the business need
• Lead a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively
• Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable, reusable web components and microservices. We're looking for someone with:
  • 3+ years prior in a technical leadership position
  • 8+ years of demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product & engineering team.
  • Experience with full stack technologies such as Go and/or NodeJS for backend development, TypeScript, Angular 13+ for frontend development, and other technologies such as:
    • Protractor, Playwright, RESTful Web Services
    • Relational database design concepts (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
    • Application Testing (unit, integration, performance, end to end) for full user journeys
    • CircleCI, Docker, Kubernetes
    • Amazon Web Services - RDS, Elasticsearch, SQS, S3
    • Github, JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack
    • You enjoy researching new technologies and methodologies and have a keen desire to dig into complex technical issues.
    • You seek out and use data to drive decisions to help your team and project succeed.
    • You can work in a fast-paced software release environment, where you deliver production-grade (zero downtime, fault-tolerant, etc.) software daily for a system with millions of users
    • You can contribute to the full software development life cycle - including writing application code, writing unit/integration/automation tests, documentation, and performance engineering
    • You are excited about building scalable API applications, and crafting intuitive and responsive user interfaces for students and teachers so they can get the most out of our products. Why work for us? The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights The pay range for this position is between $124,350 - $175,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings. McGraw Hill recruiters always use a @mheducation.com email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email. 47908 McGraw Hill uses an automated employment decision tool (AEDT) to assist in the screening process by recommending candidates with like skills based on resume and job data. To request an alternative screening process, please select Opt-Out when asked to Consent to use of Automated Employment Decision Tools during the application. More...

          

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