Manager, Software Engineering

Job Description

Manager, Software Engineering

Chennai, India

The Opportunity:

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This role focuses on Anthology Ally, a revolutionary product that makes digital course content more accessible. As the accessibility of digital course content is becoming increasingly important world-wide, institutions must address long-standing and often overbearing challenges. Anthology's Ally engineering team is responsible for developing industry-leading tools to improve accessibility through inclusivity, sustainability, and automation for all students. You can check some more details in the following video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwDPYsZdUW0 

As Manager, Software Engineering, you will work closely with QA, CI, User Experience, Product Management and Site Reliability team members to solve a wide variety of technology challenges and to deliver new features and releases. These teams design, develop, maintain, and deploy scalable multi-tier enterprise web applications leveraging technologies such as Java and JavaScript. You will advocate for, evangelize, and implement engineering best practices across the team and organization. You will also coordinate with other team leads on cross-team projects to ensure dependencies are identified, understood, and managed. 

The Candidate: 

Required skills/qualifications:

• 4-6 years of experience within cloud software development 
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills 
• A proven track record of managing and growing high performing teams providing education or enterprise SaaS 
• Considerable experience with Java, JavaScript, NoSQL databases, and web application
• An understanding of software engineering best practices and experience with Agile methods 
• Experience working with product management at a senior management level 
• Experience with large consumer-facing applications 
• Strong oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Experience deploying applications on public cloud (e.g. AWS)
• Experience with Hibernate and/or Scala
• Experience overseeing full-cycle development processes and related tools - you know how to develop, build, test, deploy and operate applications                   

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.   

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.