United States onlyAt Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!
Principal Software Engineer – Full stack
Take an innovative educational technology organization to the next level by becoming part of our rapidly growing organization. We seek a self-driven, passionate, highly qualified Principal Software Engineer with experience in modern frontend technologies. As a principal full stack engineer at Curriculum Associates, you will be part of a high- performing team that builds dashboards and reports for eductors to help them complete their jobs efficiently.
The impact you’ll have:
- You will be part of a rapidly growing Ed-Tech company and will impact educators and students with your contributions to i-Ready, our award-winning K-8 educational software service.
- You will design, develop, and deliver rich applications using Java, Spring, SQL, and related frameworks.
- You will design and develop rich user experiences using Typescript, React, Redux, and modern frontend tools and frameworks.
- You will work closely with your agile development team members, product owners, and user experience designers to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- You will help build new and innovative solutions that solve challenging software issues.
- You will collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders, including Product and QA, translating product requirements into technical solutions.
- You will partner with cross-functional peers on other teams to design and deliver solutions.
- You will lead projects and will contribute to architectural initiatives.
Who we’re looking for:
- Experience as a team lead, educating, mentoring, and supporting other members of your team to deliver large scale initiatives.
- Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills to document, train, and mentor.
- You have experience designing and developing backend services and APIs using Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate.
- You have experience working with SQL and databases, including schema design and analytic SQL.
- You have experience with developing and scaling microservices using containers on AWS.
- Experience designing and developing domain data models.
- Experience calling and using a wide variety of AWS services.
- Experience with modern Typescript, React, Redux, and frontend build tools.•Experience building frontend applications and libraries that call backend services APIs.
- Experience and passion for producing clear, maintainable, and testable code using tools like Junit, NGUnit, React Testing Library, and Playwright.
- Experience working with Node and AWS lambda for backend services.
- 10+ years of working experience.
We’d also love to see, though not required:
- Experience or knowledge of functional programming languages like Scala, Clojure,
- Elm, or Elixir.
- Data design and data engineering.
- Educational or Ed-Tech background.
Location:
•Remote
Starting date: ASAP
Benefits and Pay Range:
Pay Range – This role’s range is $110,500. - $196,500. The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that Curriculum Associates considers in making compensation decisions based on our Compensation Philosophy. Actual base pay within that range will vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, prior experience and relevant skill sets. At Curriculum Associates, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances for each case. This role is also eligible to participate in the company bonus plan. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure all compensation decisions comply with applicable state and local laws.
Benefits – Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company’s 401k plan and receive an employer match. Employees have access to a flexible vacation and sick policy in addition to twelve paid holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's, as well as a number of additional perks and benefits.
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