Software Engineer II

McGraw Hill is a leading educational content provider creating next-generation learning platforms for students and educators worldwide. They are seeking a Software Engineer II to join their Assess Engineering team, focusing on building platform capabilities for their K-12 Assessment platform while collaborating with product sponsors and senior leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Use your interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership in engineering and business
• Analyze business requirements and identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, etc
• Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet the business need
• Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively
• Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable APIs and data-centric backend processes

Requirements:

• Demonstrated software delivery experience with a distributed product & engineering team
• 2+ years working with languages such as Node.js, Go, or Java
• Ability to work in a fast-paced software release environment, delivering production-grade software daily for a system with millions of users
• Contribute to the full software development life cycle – including writing application code, writing unit/integration/automation tests, documentation and performance engineering
• Excited about building scalable, performant APIs
• Use interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with product sponsors and senior leadership in engineering and business
• Analyze business requirements and identify possible gaps, ambiguities, missing scenarios, etc
• Design and implement sound engineering solutions that meet the business need
• Work with a distributed team to solve problems quickly and collaboratively
• Present a passion for building high-quality, user-friendly, scalable APIs and data-centric backend processes
• Applied knowledge of RESTful Web Services (experience producing and consuming REST services)
• Frontend development experience
• Relational database design concepts (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Application Testing (unit, integration, performance, end to end) for full user journeys
• Cloud Technologies (preferably Amazon Web Services – RDS, S3, others)
• Code Quality and Code Review
• Ability to write adhoc SQL queries and scripts to analyze usage and performance data
• Build/deploy tools (Github Actions, npm)
• Source/Version control systems (Git)