Software Engineer II - Angular/TypeScript, Java/Scala

Job Description

Software Engineer

Brno, Czech Republic 

The Opportunity:

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.

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.

As a Software Engineer on our team, you will design, develop, and maintain features of the Ally product. You’ll also communicate and partner cross-functionally with teams in product and software development. In this role, you will work on an ethical product, using Scala for the backend and JavaScript for the frontend. We run our applications in the AWS cloud and use Git for version control. You’ll work on a distributed team, collaborating with colleagues around the globe.  

The Candidate: 

Required skills/qualifications: 

• 2-5 years of relevant professional experience
• Frontend development experience in Angular/TypeScript
• Familiarity with the full-cycle development process 
• Experience developing, building, testing, deploying, and operating applications 
• Experience working with cloud technologies
• Awareness of how distributed systems work 
• Experience with backend programming languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.)
• Knowledge of relational database design and querying concepts 
• Willingness to break things and make them work again 
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications: 

• Functional programming experience such as Haskell or Scala
• Familiarity with working with AWS cloud technologies
• 4-5 years of professional experience                  

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.