Senior Software Engineer I

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

Chennai, India

The Opportunity: 

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

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

This role focuses on Illuminate, a product that helps institutions consider the quality and effectiveness of the online educational experience. Understanding how widely online tools and content are being used across the institution is the first question that needs to be answered. Illuminate provides the essential insights and data access that Anthology SaaS clients need to manage the EdTech platform powered by Illuminate effectively. For more information, have a look at the following link: https://illuminate.blackboard.com/

As a member of the Illuminate team, you will join a group responsible for industry-leading SaaS products. Our team includes engineers, designers, and product managers, all focused on improving student success around the globe. We believe in agile practices to build our software and continuously deliver features and improvements to our users. You are a person who is always pushing your teammates to do their best work and is intolerant of anything else. Our team believes that a successful product is built by working with designers, product managers, and operators to understand the full software development cycle.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Learning quickly and developing creative solutions that encompass performance, reliability, maintainability, and security
• Applying hands-on technical design and implementation solutions using the AWS tool suite and other components to support Anthology products that utilize an expansive data lake
• Working with the development manager, product manager, and engineering team on projects related to system research, product design, product development, and defect resolution
• Being willing to respond to the unique challenges of delivering and maintaining cloud-based software. This includes minimizing downtime, troubleshooting live production environments, and responding to client-reported issues
• Working with other engineering personnel to ensure consistency among products
• Through continued iteration on existing development processes, ensuring that we’re leading by example, fixing things that aren’t working, and always improving our expectations of ourselves and others
• Thriving in the face of difficult and complex problems
• Working independently with limited supervision
• Coaching a review work of lower-level professionals

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• 5-8 years of experience designing and developing enterprise solutions, including serverless/functionless API services
• Expert knowledge of the OOP
• Experience with both relational database management systems and document-oriented databases
• Expert data structure algorithm analysis and design skills
• Knowledge of modern security and authorization schemes, including SAML, SCIM, OIDC, OAuth, and OAuth2
• Knowledge of distributed systems and tradeoffs in consistency, availability, and network failure tolerance
• Expert knowledge of professional engineering best practices for the full SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Expert knowledge of a broader set of tools in the AWS tool suite (CDK, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, S3, KMS, Batch, DynamoDB, DMS), Docker, Service meshes, Microservices
• Experience with JFrog Artifactory
• Proficiency in Python, Typescript/JavaScript, Projen/JSII
• Proficiency in SQL using Snowflake, Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, or other RDBMS
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Experience with designing, developing, and operating scalable near real-time data pipelines and stream processing
• Experience with designing and implementing ETL processes
• Experience with fact/dimensional modeling (Kimball, Inmon)
• Extra-curricular data projects or open-source contributions that you’ve developed on your own
• Previous experience in the education industry and e-learning technologies

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.