Senior Software Engineer

Achievement Network (ANet) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping all students achieve strong educational outcomes. The Senior Software Engineer will help the Engineering Team build products that support data-driven educational practices by applying modern development technologies and best practices to deliver high-quality software systems.

Responsibilities:

• Implement ANet’s next generation of technology products that support data-driven educational practices
• Design, develop, test, and maintain a robust and scalable data lake solution, RESTful back-end services, and, occasionally, web applications that provide ANet’s educational partners with insights that boost student learning
• Engage in technical design and code reviews, embracing and promoting best practices to document and deliver a high-quality software system that scales
• Monitor and troubleshoot production data pipelines, proactively address issues, performance bottlenecks, and system failures
• Contribute to the evolution of our data infrastructure, recommending and implementing solutions to improve testability, maintainability, scalability, and efficiency
• Join product managers and business analysts to understand available data and translate user stories into reporting platform capabilities
• Collaborate and integrate with third-party data providers to ingest and share data using established, sustainable patterns adopted by the team
• Keep abreast of new technologies and propose adoption as appropriate

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience delivering high quality software solutions in enterprise environments
• 3+ years of recent, hands-on experience designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining production software utilizing Java 17+, Spring Boot 3+, data modeling skills, and SQL for microservice development
• Modern data warehousing, data lake, ELT/ETL design patterns, and PySpark for data pipeline development
• Cloud platforms and infrastructure deployment tools (AWS and Cloud Formation preferred)
• CI/CD automation pipelines
• Scrum or other Agile development processes
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing web applications using Javascript or Typescript with a modern front-end framework (Angular preferred)
• Experience working in a highly collaborative culture and creating consistent, sustainable solutions across applications and sub-teams
• Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and confidently in written and verbal form to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrates empathy and ability to hear and respond to feedback
• Adept in working closely with business partners to build technology solutions that meet the needs of internal and external users
• Adept at adjusting solutions to increase consistency, sustainability, and maximize the effectiveness of the entire team
• Adept at project and time management, with experience leading long-term projects alongside changing priorities in both project and product requirements
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering or related degree
• Demonstrated experience and success working remotely